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? 🤔

#VanRe #bcpoli
2/ TL;DR BC Money Laundering Inquiry:

- 🇨🇦’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. 🤷‍♂️
4/ For context, if you’re from the 🇺🇸, it might not be clear what’s happening. Let me help explain this.

In a 🇨🇦, this family flagged for money laundering $167m was deported and had their deportation files sealed.

🇨🇦 runs by the mafia principle — no conviction, no laundering.
5/ We’re talking about a country where organized crime is so intimidating, the police are scared of them.

Apparently there’s no scrutiny as long as they don’t drive a truck.
6/ They’re not going to mention that one of 🇨🇦’s top spies was alleged to be leaking secrets to transnational “king pin” money launderers?

Oh, well. It’s too bad there’s no evidence of criminal activity in 🇨🇦.
7/ 🤫 we’re not supposed to ask questions about how the 🇺🇸 busted a fentanyl operation running out of a prison in 🇨🇦.

Where did the money go? 🤷‍♂️

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Jun 15
Feels like a good time to talk about how 🇨🇦 is nothing like the 🇺🇸 during 2008, right?

🇺🇸 home prices fell so much due to poor people borrowing too much and not repaying, right?

Nope. Total lie concocted by the investment industry, which set up a sweet heist.

<thread> 🧵👇
2/ First, what is subprime? It’s a borrower with a credit score less than 670 typically. Above is “higher quality” borrowers.

This is the delinquency & foreclosure share for investors. Higher quintiles are higher credit scores.

What do you see?

betterdwelling.com/forget-subprim…
3/ seriously, what did you see? The lowest quintile doesn’t move much, but those are the subprime borrowers.

The highest quintile of high quality borrowers? They surge way above normal. We see this trend for investors in both delinquencies and foreclosures.
Read 19 tweets
Jun 14
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?
Read 13 tweets
May 31
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.
Read 5 tweets
May 27
Hey, I remember this money laundering case in 🇨🇦!

We mentioned it in passing on @BetterDwelling 8 months ago and @Facebook took away the ability to manage our page immediately after.

Still haven’t got it back but they admit no rules were broken. 🤷‍♂️

#VanRe <thread> 🧵👇
2/ The funniest part of my Facebook saga is they took away my personal account too.

I didn’t do the interview or even share it, but somehow they alleged I violated the terms of service.

A 🇺🇸 politician connected me to a mega media corp & FB finally responded …
3/ to a request for the details of the violation. Hey, look at that — no violations.

Personal account returned but they only kind of returned the @BetterDwelling page.

You see, there’s a darn bug in the FB platform preventing any management of JUST THAT PAGE.
Read 7 tweets
May 24
🇨🇦 should think twice a housing bailing out.

A drop in home prices will restore productive investment & over half of the largest voting demographic currently has no chance of homeownership.

Things like increasing the CMHC limit is a death blow to the future.

#ToRe #VanRe 1/
2/ Not everyone needs to own, but affordable shelter needs to be the alternative.

The fewer anchors young & skilled labor has, the more likely they’ll migrate to countries that will heavily outcompete 🇨🇦.

Live in a micro apartment to fund my retirement, isn’t a great pitch.
3/ we know increasing leverage allows people to borrow more future income to pay for a home, increasing prices.

Yet policymakers are hell bent on making sure you can borrow more.

They don’t limit 30% of your income for housing to save you, they want 30% perpetually.
Read 5 tweets
May 21
North America (yes, 🇨🇦 too) has a baby formula shortage.

🇨🇦 built a baby food formula plant w/ the largest foreign agriculture investment for ON ever. 🇨🇦 won't disclose how much they provided.

🇨🇦 will also provide prison farm labor for the company.

It's almost all for export.
2/ Want to learn more? Sources.

Farming is rehabilitative. Commercial farming isn't, especially in mass dairy agriculture.

@EvolveOPF has been trying for years to warn the Liberals brought back a program the Harper gov discontinued because it was cruel.

evolveourprisonfarms.ca/prison-farms-f…
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.

cbc.ca/news/politics/…
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