“Afghanistan did a better job running its elections.”
h/t Mike
18 Replies to “The Manitoba NDP Leadership Race”
The reason that Afghanistan does a better job is that Afghanistan is trying to bring in democracy and the NDP is trying to take out democracy.
So, can we blame the authors mom for Stelmach.
The thousands of others who joined just to vote in our leadership race forgot one thing. They have to live in this province and the joke is on them.
The NDP were talking about dropping the “N” from their name, maybe truth in advertising would dictate that they drop the “D”.
The NDP have done a tremendously good job in governing Manitoba. Rent controls are one of the areas. Fat cat landlords and multinational property companies can not hike rents on a whim. All provinces should have this.
T: rent controls can lead to rent shortages. This is basic economics.
That being said, a friend of mine suggested that rent controls might be put into places for apartments that fail to meet some level of energy efficiency, to encourage landlords to either keep greening or to be forced to lose profits. In that case, I think the shortages would be temporary(as other people with rental space in the market would take up the renters that the ungreen ones choose not to accept).
“Rent controls are one of the areas.”
Unfortunately the side effect of that is there are no longer many rental units available or being built. All new construction are condos unless subsidized by the government.
I can never tell if T is serious or one of us playing silly.
The NDP were successful because they rode the prosperity of the country, got larger and larger transfer payments, and never met a funding request they didn’t french kiss. Never say no, never get voted out.
You want to know why Gary Boozer Doer walked away? The cupboard is almost bare. It’s time for the adults to run the province, and he knows it.
Rent control. In Manitoba. Hah. Enjoy your Osborne Village walk-ups with no heat and no hot water because the landlord can’t afford to fix anything.
“your Osborne Village walk-ups with no heat and no hot water”
Are you kidding? Seriously, that’s highclass on the Winnipeg rental scene! 😉
Chris, been there, lived that! I’m now urban sprawling out in Island Lakes.
When the dippers sold out to labour they wrote their own epigraph …..
It would read “Went to bed with dogs and woke up with fleas”
Except for the potential for accelerated dmamge to our provincial finances for the next two years a person could have fun watching this train wreck.
Remember the changes to the elections act in Manitoba have been geared toward decreasing the ability of every one but the dippers from effective political participation.
Caps on party advertizing …. the dippers still have union shills to trumpet for the cause.
And no doubt about it … the unions are now calling the shots.
T (twit)
The NDP have done a tremendously good job in governing Manitoba. Rent controls are one of the areas. Fat cat landlords and multinational property companies can not hike rents on a whim. All provinces should have this.
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yah, stupidity like that is why people like me git out of the landlord business, capice!!!!
then the market take over, and there are no more affordable rentals for the less well heeled
“Rent controls are one of the areas. Fat cat landlords and multinational property companies can not hike rents on a whim.”
Yet these controls contribute to a massive rental shortage in Manitoba, because there isn’t the investment in new properties that there should be.
Rent controls also don’t apply for units renting more than $1000 per month. Or rehabilitated units. Or units newer then 15 years. etc.. etc..
Rent control created more problems than it solved.
Wacky Bennett (or maybe it was his son, Bill) correctly stated that the NDP didn’t have the smarts or ability to successfully operate a popcorn stand. How would anyone expect them to be able to conduct a nomination process?
T,
How do you feel about the Manitoba NDP sealing an active murder file for 7 years? Was that one of the good things they have done? It was really convenient for the life long NDP member/employee/candidate, Mark Stobbe, to have the NDP government order the file sealed on the murder of Mark’s wife, especially when Mark is the one and only suspect in the murder.
Never in my life have I ever heard of a crown prosecutor sealing a file, let alone a murder file, when the police have turned it over to them for prosecution. Any thoughts there, T? Cat got your tongue?
Trent, for your information Crown Prosecutors and the Director of Public Prosecutions are not in discussion with the Ministers or MLAs when deciding the merits of a case and whether or not to prosecute. That is done on whether or not the case is strong enough that there is a likelihood of a conviction.
T, Were you rolling your eyes and laughing as you typed that 6:02 post?
And on other NDP matters – Bill C-268 which assures a minimum 5 year sentence for trafficking children (under18 years), has just passed 3rd reading. The Bloc Quebecois voted against passage (of course) as did NDP’s Bill Siksay of Burnaby and his cohort Libby Davis (once married to the late social activist Bruce Erikson, though now a lesbian) and some other tw*t from Halifax – okay, “twit”! Siksay claims mandatory minimum sentences are ineffective in preventing or deterring crime, there being no evidence they work.
Yeah well, we know it would keep that particular pimp off the streets for 5 years, and make him/her very accident prone behind bars.
Rent controls are one of the areas. Fat cat landlords and multinational property companies can not hike rents on a whim. All provinces should have this.
Yes, we used to have this enlightened policy in Ontario. You want to move into a rent controlled apartment? Better have between $5,000-10,000 in “key money”, as I learned from many friends. Want that rent controlled apartment repaired or painted? Get in line – unless your plumbing was dripping into the apartment below, chances were it would take between 6-12 months to get minor problems fixed. Want to even find an apartment? In the early 90’s, newspapers wailed about the lack of rental accommodation in Toronto. After Mike Harris revised the laws, many more units came on to the market, and today, it is not uncommon to drive past most apartment buildings and see that there are units available.
Rent controls decrease the number of apartments available, increase hidden costs (key money), and result in poorer maintenance of rental stock. Yes, T, I can see why you would be in favour of such a benighted policy; it’s because you really hate people, while professing to love them. Hypocrite.
The reason that Afghanistan does a better job is that Afghanistan is trying to bring in democracy and the NDP is trying to take out democracy.
So, can we blame the authors mom for Stelmach.
The thousands of others who joined just to vote in our leadership race forgot one thing. They have to live in this province and the joke is on them.
The NDP were talking about dropping the “N” from their name, maybe truth in advertising would dictate that they drop the “D”.
The NDP have done a tremendously good job in governing Manitoba. Rent controls are one of the areas. Fat cat landlords and multinational property companies can not hike rents on a whim. All provinces should have this.
T: rent controls can lead to rent shortages. This is basic economics.
That being said, a friend of mine suggested that rent controls might be put into places for apartments that fail to meet some level of energy efficiency, to encourage landlords to either keep greening or to be forced to lose profits. In that case, I think the shortages would be temporary(as other people with rental space in the market would take up the renters that the ungreen ones choose not to accept).
“Rent controls are one of the areas.”
Unfortunately the side effect of that is there are no longer many rental units available or being built. All new construction are condos unless subsidized by the government.
I can never tell if T is serious or one of us playing silly.
The NDP were successful because they rode the prosperity of the country, got larger and larger transfer payments, and never met a funding request they didn’t french kiss. Never say no, never get voted out.
You want to know why Gary Boozer Doer walked away? The cupboard is almost bare. It’s time for the adults to run the province, and he knows it.
Rent control. In Manitoba. Hah. Enjoy your Osborne Village walk-ups with no heat and no hot water because the landlord can’t afford to fix anything.
“your Osborne Village walk-ups with no heat and no hot water”
Are you kidding? Seriously, that’s highclass on the Winnipeg rental scene! 😉
Chris, been there, lived that! I’m now urban sprawling out in Island Lakes.
When the dippers sold out to labour they wrote their own epigraph …..
It would read
“Went to bed with dogs and woke up with fleas”
Except for the potential for accelerated dmamge to our provincial finances for the next two years a person could have fun watching this train wreck.
Remember the changes to the elections act in Manitoba have been geared toward decreasing the ability of every one but the dippers from effective political participation.
Caps on party advertizing …. the dippers still have union shills to trumpet for the cause.
And no doubt about it … the unions are now calling the shots.
T (twit)
The NDP have done a tremendously good job in governing Manitoba. Rent controls are one of the areas. Fat cat landlords and multinational property companies can not hike rents on a whim. All provinces should have this.
============================================
yah, stupidity like that is why people like me git out of the landlord business, capice!!!!
then the market take over, and there are no more affordable rentals for the less well heeled
“Rent controls are one of the areas. Fat cat landlords and multinational property companies can not hike rents on a whim.”
Yet these controls contribute to a massive rental shortage in Manitoba, because there isn’t the investment in new properties that there should be.
Rent controls also don’t apply for units renting more than $1000 per month. Or rehabilitated units. Or units newer then 15 years. etc.. etc..
Rent control created more problems than it solved.
Wacky Bennett (or maybe it was his son, Bill) correctly stated that the NDP didn’t have the smarts or ability to successfully operate a popcorn stand. How would anyone expect them to be able to conduct a nomination process?
T,
How do you feel about the Manitoba NDP sealing an active murder file for 7 years? Was that one of the good things they have done? It was really convenient for the life long NDP member/employee/candidate, Mark Stobbe, to have the NDP government order the file sealed on the murder of Mark’s wife, especially when Mark is the one and only suspect in the murder.
Never in my life have I ever heard of a crown prosecutor sealing a file, let alone a murder file, when the police have turned it over to them for prosecution. Any thoughts there, T? Cat got your tongue?
Trent, for your information Crown Prosecutors and the Director of Public Prosecutions are not in discussion with the Ministers or MLAs when deciding the merits of a case and whether or not to prosecute. That is done on whether or not the case is strong enough that there is a likelihood of a conviction.
T, Were you rolling your eyes and laughing as you typed that 6:02 post?
And on other NDP matters – Bill C-268 which assures a minimum 5 year sentence for trafficking children (under18 years), has just passed 3rd reading. The Bloc Quebecois voted against passage (of course) as did NDP’s Bill Siksay of Burnaby and his cohort Libby Davis (once married to the late social activist Bruce Erikson, though now a lesbian) and some other tw*t from Halifax – okay, “twit”! Siksay claims mandatory minimum sentences are ineffective in preventing or deterring crime, there being no evidence they work.
Yeah well, we know it would keep that particular pimp off the streets for 5 years, and make him/her very accident prone behind bars.
Rent controls are one of the areas. Fat cat landlords and multinational property companies can not hike rents on a whim. All provinces should have this.
Yes, we used to have this enlightened policy in Ontario. You want to move into a rent controlled apartment? Better have between $5,000-10,000 in “key money”, as I learned from many friends. Want that rent controlled apartment repaired or painted? Get in line – unless your plumbing was dripping into the apartment below, chances were it would take between 6-12 months to get minor problems fixed. Want to even find an apartment? In the early 90’s, newspapers wailed about the lack of rental accommodation in Toronto. After Mike Harris revised the laws, many more units came on to the market, and today, it is not uncommon to drive past most apartment buildings and see that there are units available.
Rent controls decrease the number of apartments available, increase hidden costs (key money), and result in poorer maintenance of rental stock. Yes, T, I can see why you would be in favour of such a benighted policy; it’s because you really hate people, while professing to love them. Hypocrite.