Serous question about BC’s money laundering inquiry that demonstrates an odd bias for a judge.
How do you definitively state money laundering doesn’t contribute to higher home prices as a heading, and then state it needs more studying because you aren’t sure? 🤔
- 🇨🇦’s resources are inadequate;
- FINTRAC only pursued 2 cases in BC over 5 years;
- Canada has 12.5x more suspicious money reports than the US per capita;
- housing is expensive because of a lack of supply.
They didn’t study supply…
3/ Okay, let’s use some estimates they came up with.
How does a country have full GDP points of money laundering transactions that don’t contribute to the aggregate demand of goods?
By that logic a housing crash has no impact on the economy. 5-6% isn’t noticeable. 🤷♂️
Boomers are the only generation to think life should be harder for their kids.
In contrast, their parents grew up in the Silent Generation during the depression and worked their asses off to make sure their kids would never have it as hard as they did.
2/ One just tweeted @ me that Millennials just need to work harder to buy a home. Cited his kids as an example, who work 70 hours per week to afford their home!
He legit doesn't understand working twice as many hours for the same things he had (maybe less), is a problem.
3/ Good for his kids, but we don't see how it's problematic for only the one percent to be able to afford a home for future generations?
I work 90/hr workweeks but not for shelter. Is everyone supposed to just start a couple of multi-million companies & not have kids?
Mortgage regulations protect consumers from predatory loans.
Progressives have the fraud issue wrong. Tight-knit immigrant communities aren’t being criticized — the predators exploiting them are.
Naive/corrupt politicians protect these predators, pretending it’s a race issue.
2/ It's one of those weird issues where people with good intentions are rallied by predators pretending to be well intended.
Fraud for shelter isn't because the borrower is nefarious and trying to cheat a lender. The broker locks these people into hard to flee circumstances.
3/ Often consumers that go this route are worried they'll lose their home if anyone else discovers it.
You and I secure low lending rates via completion. If you can't shop around, you're stuck with whatever you're offered — typically not with great terms.
3/ The company that's supposedly receiving the prison labor received ~$24m from ON to build the plant and the Fed won't disclose how much they kicked in.
Kingston, which "has no land" so homes are $1m, transferred 16 hectares of land to the company.