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Agreed. I broadly see STRs are improving access for those who wouldn't and/or couldn't normally own a cottage. I don't see how access...

We rent cottages every year because members of my family like that type of thing but we could never afford to own one. But the prices...

And yeah, obviously short term rentals of cottages in muskoka is not a contributing factor to the housing crisis. Short term rentals in...

That we went from "I have no sympathy for young people who want to own a home" to "we need to diversify the ownership class of cottages"...

I know recent immigrants who live in rooming houses who as a group rented a STR cottage for a weekend getaway. $400 a night is not bad...

I doubt many seasonal resort workers would be living in waterfront vacation properties.

I don't think this statistic means much. Ate there millions of people desperate to own a cottage missing out because of STRs? Cause...

Articulated better than me. But this is why I called it anti-capitalist. It's an idea that seeks nothing more than redistribution of...

True for 'new money' ownership but there is a lot of old money family vacation properties. The ones I know I would hardly call "elite"...

This is some bizarre anti-capitalist fantasy that won't fly with most Canadians. I doubt the "cost of cottaging" makes it to the top...

Any federal exercise of its residual power under Section 91 would be heavily litigated by the provinces. Keep in mind that the section...

I think this would be wildly unpopular with Canadians and would be incredibly disruptive to the real estate markets in areas like...

CPP is partially funded. OAS is pay as you go, much like Social Security in the US (this has a reserve that Congress has raided and...

And let‘s keep in mind that they are only expecting deliveries to start in the early 2030s, so 2027/28 seems indeed unrealistic at this...

Intellectually I agree with you, but nobody said politics is rational. If there were some other bauble that Western Canada was offered...