Northern Light
Superstar
In regards the national, standardized residential lease, I concur that:
1) This really does nothing to improve affordability at all.
2) Its jurisdictional over-reach
3) Its needlessly bureaucratic and cumbersome to little obvious advantage except for a handful of national REITS.
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There is a case to be made for Ottawa pushing the provinces, even in areas of provincial jurisdiction, to the extent that there is a clear, and substantial advantage for the country. That might be recognition of labour credentials across provincial lines; a single capital markets system for the country, a smart-grid of electricity, or some other item where one can imagine goosing national GDP by a full percent or more by way or relatively easy cooperation/harmonization.
But the above is really none of that. Its somewhere between a foolish diversion and something of low benefit to a special interest group known as REITS.
Silly, at best.
1) This really does nothing to improve affordability at all.
2) Its jurisdictional over-reach
3) Its needlessly bureaucratic and cumbersome to little obvious advantage except for a handful of national REITS.
*****
There is a case to be made for Ottawa pushing the provinces, even in areas of provincial jurisdiction, to the extent that there is a clear, and substantial advantage for the country. That might be recognition of labour credentials across provincial lines; a single capital markets system for the country, a smart-grid of electricity, or some other item where one can imagine goosing national GDP by a full percent or more by way or relatively easy cooperation/harmonization.
But the above is really none of that. Its somewhere between a foolish diversion and something of low benefit to a special interest group known as REITS.
Silly, at best.