20 Replies to “Canada’s Homeless Industrial Complex, featuring Vancouver”

  1. Yes THIS! I watched it last night.

    Lauren did a fabulous job exposing the massive grifting of $Poverty Industry$… 🙂

    Yep, they “care so much”, that the administrators pockets are just bursting with $CASH$.

    Cheers

    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

    1st St Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  2. Could not watch all. She missed the point. The problem is government. The more they do the worse it gets.

    1. Sorry, but I thought most of the blame was ON the gov… I thought she did a great job. And shes still on it.. I think it was a great job.

      1. NDP here, (notice my Rolex?).

        The problem can be solved by appointing more bureaucrats. We need a thorough study incorporating, integrating, compiling, and disseminating feasibility studies. The study group to include:
        – diversity and inclusion officials
        – climate scientists – to determine the effects of climate change on any potential solutions
        – labour leaders
        – communication consultants
        – first nations
        – lawyers – to draft agreements
        – consultants – McKinsey for example
        – coordinators and facilitators

        Of course nothing can be done until we have a new office building, and a new office computer system.
        Then we’ll embark on a series of trips to see how other countries and cities deal with the problem.

        Estimated time to a draft proposal? Eight years.
        Note by this time the solutions will be out of date, so we’ll have to repeat.

        I wish the above was sarcasm!

    2. “If you want more of something subsidize it, if you want less, tax it”

      how much does the government of canada, and the various money laundering organizations masquerading as charities subsidize the “problem”?

  4. Charity must always be done locally.
    Once Government gets its claws in,it becomes theft by bureau.
    And the human vulture have been getting nice and fat off of “helping” the hapless.
    Thanks to all the idiot rules and regulations,housing has become unobtainium..
    Cheap houses?
    Cheap Rent?
    Illegal.
    Hell if you let relatives stay at your home,you are providing a “Taxable Benefit” to them as they make starvation wages..
    Every turn a parasite has its hand out,while holding “power of Government” as its shield.

    The Lower East Side of Vancouver is a glorious sample of what “Government Help” creates.
    Forward!

    Until we banish the human parasites from our midst,such miseries will only compound.
    Banish all Assault Style Liberal creatures.
    Including the Uni-Party of Can Ahh Duh.

    1. Many years ago Lowell Green referenced the poverty industry in Ottawa. He also wrote a book about the perils of multiculturalism and immigration. I think it was titled Mayday Mayday, referencing the emergency call.

  5. No one who profits from trying to solve a problem will ever solve their problem. Why would you turn off the money by fixing the problem? When government starts funding problem solving, it just gets worse. When government stands up a whole department to solve a problem you can bet it will never get solved and that department will never be stood down.

    1. “No one who profits from trying to solve a problem will ever solve their problem.”

      Exactly right. The ‘poverty pimps’ of the Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA) have made *millions* of dollars over the decades, and show no signs of getting off the gravy train any time soon.

  6. In Dartmouth, the ferry terminal, they put in special shipping containers for the homeless. People who work there lost their parking spots to the new homeless village on the water front no less. Well I walked through the terminal, needed to use the washroom but the only public one has been taken over by the homeless. I could not believe my eyes, dozens of homeless people using the public library and it’s resources-micro wave, water etc making meals after using the bathroom to wash and shoot up-so I’m told? The goberment appears to provide them their every need, free wifi, free meal prep stations, a washroom to shoot up in and take leisurely naps? I pity the people who work there, it’s like an invasion. A friend who lives in the area told me all you can hear after dark is yelling, and partying going on. Leaving the terminal, where the metro transit buses pick up passengers gave me the creeps. Mostly dirty homeless men taking up most of the benches, some looked high as kites. I won’t be visiting the terminal anytime soon. I guess if the gobernment builds it they will come for the free stuff. The various level of governments created the mess but the taxpayer is left paying for the societal costs.

  7. Makes a guy wonder how much letting in 500000 migrants and arming them with government cash does to worsen the problem. The good news is that the problem is mainly in the leftist cities and does not affect us out in hickville.

  8. People migrate to the most expensive places in the country (e.g., Vancouver and Toronto) and we try and house them in cheap buildings there. That would be a problem.

  9. The federal and provincial government could solve the housing crisis by making the 1st $50,000 in rental income tax free. Think of all the “empty nesters”, older folk whose children have moved out, living in large houses by themselves. If the money they earned renting out a portion of their homes wasn’t clawed back in income tax, they would much more likely be willing to rent them out.

    Of course this will never happen. As Glen Reynolds says over at Instapundit, tax incentives offer fewer opportunities for graft.

  11. Canada’s population is rising by 1 million every 2 years.
    Are we even building that much housing?
    Can we?
    Should we?
    To what end?

    This: Chinadians will beg their governments to do even more.
    So just look to China: the majority will live in high-rises like rats, relying on the benevolence of their rulers who gain even greater power with every added immigrant or native born.
    Except for the top tier, everyone will grow poorer relatively speaking.
    Look to the other harbinger – health care – to see what promise the future holds.
    And you’ll own nothing and be happy…

  12. Have they quoted $30 billion for the homeless?

    Here is a suggestion, for tenth of the money they could send all the homeless to a warm place to live.
    Burkina Faso comes to mind.
    That would be positively paradise for the money.

    And as the woke would say, win, win, win, everywhere you look is a win.
    How can they lose?

    1. The only problem with that is that some of them are “refugees” from Burkina Faso, who have come to Canada out of “fear for their lives” and only want to go back there temporarily, at Canadian taxpayer expense, for regular vacations and to send their boys to madrassas for “religious education” just like Somalis and many other “refugees” do.

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