It's absolutely insane that market value of a studio is over $600,000.

I don't have confidence in the Liberal government, but I am confident the Conservatives would be worse.

It's because there is no nuance anymore. With every issue you have to either be 100% on my side or 100% on the other side. So many times people argue for and against things that aren't mutually exclusive. It doesn't mean we should "both sides" everything, but sometimes both sides each have half of a good idea.

Yeah, I imagine if you're in a city it's a different story. TransLink has been great every time I've used it in Vancouver. Greater Victoria seems to be pretty decent if you're in the core or you're near one of the commuter corridors, Nanaimo seems ok but I haven't used it myself.

I'm in the Cowichan Valley, and like I said all our routes seem to be big loops that go out to all the smaller communities and back to Duncan. The only way I see it being more effective with a similar amount of buses is if there was more of a direct highway route and/or a hub and spoke model. You could then put a local route in each community/ group of communities or even an on demand system if it's more rural. Obviously that's based on my area, but I can't imagine it's much different in many other small towns and spread out communities.

Honestly I wouldn't start to use the current transit in my area if it was free. The issue isn't cost, it's that the service is stretched so thin it's only usable as a last resort and your day has to be planned around the schedule. On the rare occasion I can't use my car I have ended up walking for an hour and a half because it's more convenient than the bus. I'm just glad I'm not disabled or I'd have to turn some of my outings into overnighters.

I'd rather live in a modern house I could afford to own that happens to look kinda boring than the poorly converted basement of someone else's boring old house that also looks like every other house on the street.

We have our own carbon tax in BC, it has nothing to do with the federal government.

The rest of us really dodged a bullet, look how they treat their own people…

Hold on, you can get an apartment in a major city for under $2000? Is the minimum wage in Quebec $10/hr? I don't live particularly close to any city and you'd be hard pressed to find anything more than a studio for $1500, you're looking at close to $2000 for something decent. I wonder how many months it would take to break even after moving costs from BC…

So if/when rates go back down the tenants can apply to have their rent lowered back, right?

the party is taking a stand against a policy that disproportionately affects wealthy people and big corporations.

What about every single other policy that's even tangentially related to affordability that disproportionately affects everyone who isn't wealthy and small businesses?

Exactly, you can throw all the incentives you want at me and I'd be happy to switch today, but my landlords don't care because they're not the ones paying the carbon tax.