Yeah, you’re probably right. These problems aren’t only Canadian problems, especially housing costs.

But in some ways Canada has gone into these issues a lot worse than we should have, and we have done a lot less to get past them than the level I want to hold a government accountable for.

For example, Canada has had the highest immigration growth in the G7 and it was almost double the average. Canada’s housing prices are number 2 in the OECD for price vs incomes.

Anger about immigration in Canada is actually relatively new, 2016 would see Trudeau’s first year, the election of Donald Trump (on his “We’re going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it” campaign), and Brexit passed. That year the economist wrote that Canada was strange in our open celebration of immigration.

Honestly this article is a great read about the sentiment of 2016 vs this one about sentiment today.

Since this thread is largely just my political thoughts, I at least still have some sympathy for Trudeau’s government, I still feel at the time when I voted for them, they were the clear right choice. This time I don’t feel there is one, it’s a messy time, and I worry we’ll pick easy answers without much weight behind them.