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well fucking DUH

Canada is facing a number of destabilizing forces — like climate change, disinformation, and young adults never owning a home. That’s the take from an internal RCMP report called the Whole-Of-Government Five-Year Trends For Canada. The report is a “scanning exercise” on evolving risks for law enforcement to monitor. It puts the fact that many people under 35 will never own a home, on par with disinformation and climate change.

Police Worry Canada May Be Destabilized If Young People Realize They Won’t Own A Home

One of the concerns law enforcement is warning about is the impact of eroding economic conditions. Especially when it comes to young adults.

“The coming period of recession will also accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations,” reads the report.

Canada may have seen a pandemic economic boom, but it was largely related to rapidly appreciating real estate. Unfortunately, that doesn’t apply to young adults who saw housing get further out of reach.

“For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely to ever buy a place to live. The fallout from this decline in living standards will be exacerbated by the difference between the extremes of wealth, which is greater now in developed countries than it has been at any time in several generations,” warns the RCMP.

Wealth disparity is bad enough, but what happens when that wealth disparity is driven by shelter disparity? It’s a problem not typically seen in advanced economies at scale.

The writing is really on the wall now. And yet, the working class sleeps...

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[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 59 points 8 months ago

glasses-on Billionaires putting up the "PLEASE DONT EAT US" sign....

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago

Wait is that real? Looks fake there's no way

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[-] thisismyrealname@hexbear.net 58 points 8 months ago

americans can't afford to buy homes, but canadians are FUCKED

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago

canada plays the progressive moral high ground to whitewash their broken capital flow magnet scheme.

It is not that hard to look good on the outside when your neighbour is the US

[-] GrumpigPoopBalls@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

I had such a rosy view of Canada before I lived there (just the usual ignorant American idealism about how its a land of free healthcare and better environmental stewardship and better relations with indigenous people....). The US is not a paragon of indigenous relations by any means but holy shit the way that First Nations people are treated in the field I work in as far as "government to government" relations go is absurdly racist and paternalistic compared to how it works in the US (again, not that murica is a model for this in any way).

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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 57 points 8 months ago

I've become suspicious of the words "disinformation" and "misinformation" ever since I heard that it was the top concern of Davos attendees, above climate change or war. I fear it's becoming a dogwhistle to mean leftist politics.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 56 points 8 months ago

It's really funny that a country with as much timber and land as Canada is going to let it's whole economy get devoured by housing shortages.

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago

that's Capitalism for you.

[-] reverendz@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 8 months ago

The vast majority of the population lives within 100 miles of the US border.

It's bloody cold up there.

Source: self (who has visited many times) and all my mums family who live in Canada.

Also, Canada has become something of a US vassal state. As much as the general population may complain about Americans (and they do) their politics has become a fun house mirror image of the US. They're neo-liberaling just as hard, if not harder than us. The only real difference is, some guy managed to get universal health care passed in the 50s, or they'd frankly be much worse off than they are now.

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The US The American Dream of owning a home was to put mortgages on the backs of Americans to fight the Red Scare of the 1920s.

Because people with mortgages don't go on strike or protest.

Drink deep, Canada.

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

the first time I was told this it changed the way I think about everything, I felt like such a sucker buying into it

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 37 points 8 months ago

Debt has a crazy strong influence on people. David Graeber's book on debt talks about how it has been a major influence on just about every event in history

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[-] wombat@hexbear.net 52 points 8 months ago

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

Post it again in allcaps for the people in the back

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 49 points 8 months ago

In a more extreme example, there was the Chinese Land Reform Movement. In both cases, the extraction pushed people to a point where they had little to lose—and people with no vested interest in an economy tend to become liabilities.

Huh interesting, I wonder how that worked out for them

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[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago

The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry.

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 48 points 8 months ago

The rcmp doesn’t really need to be afraid of that. The Canadian population will just blame immigration like every western countries with a housing crisis.

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

yeah, Canadians are mostly just going to roll over and take it. But I guess the RCMP still want to be able to contain and control what little violence comes about from it.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago

It's going to be mask off fascism though, won't it? doomer

[-] fox@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago

It'll be mask off fascists followed by riots in the cities and armed indigenous protests.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

Chrystia Freeland, the deputy pm of Kkklanada, is like a third or fourth generation Ukrainian Nazi. Stays pretty quite about it, but she's slipped up from time to time and let us glimpse behind the mask.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago

Why don't they just adapt Socialism???

Are they stupid?

[-] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

Canadians are fucking morons, yes. We have like 3 media monopolies that dominate all political thought for 99.9% of the population.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 17 points 8 months ago

We have like 3 media monopolies that dominate all political thought

Is there more Canadians disproportionately in Hexbear than I thought? Nothing wrong with that....

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

We're everywhere 👁

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[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago

Ok. That's good though. It's good that Canadians represent a major threat to the status quo of Canada. Ffs they even say in the article that wealth disparity is completely fucked thinking it's bad that there's a threat to that system is completely incoherent.

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

I'm not Canadian, but I cannot stress enough to any Canadians to start organizing and talking to regular people. If you don't, the fascists will and they already have a head start.

[-] shitholeislander@hexbear.net 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

communists in the west need to actually read some Mao, internalise it, and start engaging with the masses and learning from them instead of just putting stickers up around university campuses and worshipping white labour-aristocrats. Chapter 11 of Quotations and also Oppose Book Worship.

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[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago

The funniest version of this take I've ever seen is Jordan Peterson saying that wealth inequality causes societies to collapse without fail, and when asked what should be done about it he just says "I don't know". Like, hmm, we could literally take the money from the rich and give it to the poor to level out the wealth gap but no that isn't what lobsters would do so I guess we better just have society collapse.

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He can’t say it because he lives in toronto, especially a gentrified area of the cities that used to be a spot for artists and students. It is also the place where they shot the Scott Pilgrim live action.

It would be against his personal interests. Also, his fanbase already made their mind on who to blame for those crisis (it is not economical or systemic)

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[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago

What this means, Amerikkkans, the Canadians are coming for your homes... Cannibalistic hordes of canucks crossing the border in droves

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago

I for one welcome my Quebecois overlords. What are they gonna do? Build some much-needed hydropower?

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[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Let me guess, this is how it goes:

porky-happy: "Well I suppose that's a risk I'll have to take! Just tell them the browns and the Jews did it, works every time!"

Sometimes makes me want to move to kkkanada as a burger, and then every time you hear them blame immigrants. I point out "but I'm an immigrant and you're fine with me!".

[-] TechnoUnionTypeBeat@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

Trust me, most Klanadians aren't gonna get caught in that trap

When they blame immigrants it will be with some of the most mask off racism you've ever heard. Only country I know where people have racial slur nicknames for half the cities in the province

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[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

I’ve already seen reactionaries on social media spread the notion that undocumented workers are the reason house prices in the US are so high (because of course, the most marginalized and vulnerable people are the ones who just get boatloads of handouts from the government…)

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 19 points 8 months ago

This is always so crazy to me as someone who knows immigrants in the US. These people live anywhere from 2-4 families in a single house just to pay the rent. They are not balling by any means.

[-] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago

Have Canadian police been reading about degrading material conditions leading to revolution?

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