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[Mike K.]

I have never met a developer, that would rather sell 20 units at $125k profit, versus 100 units at $40k profit.

 

The theory that government can't lower taxes because the private market would just eat the savings as profit exists solely in the heads of bureaucrats, to justify high taxes.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

PP on the housing file, video on X:

 

https://x.com/ryange...748649741488292

 

 

 

[lanforod]

Trudeau is all about the 'we're going to do xxx for Canadians because thats what they need'. Never actually explains why or what they are going to actually do, rarely can justify things.

[Mike K.]

What do you mean? He outlined the process really well in the link above.

[lanforod]

PP does. Trudeau...

[Victoria Watcher]

The B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled that a law passed by the provincial government to stave off opposition to a supportive housing development in the Vancouver neighbourhood of Kitsilano is unconstitutional.

 

The provincial government had adopted the law at the request of the City of Vancouver in 2023 to push through a 12-storey housing development at Arbutus Street, featuring units open to low‑income residents and users of support services.

 

But the Arbutus development was opposed by the Kitsilano Coalition for Children & Family Safety Society, which took the city to court over its in-principle approval of a rezoning to allow the project to go ahead.

 

Monday's ruling says the provincial government "evidently became concerned" the litigation could delay the rezoning, so it passed the Municipal Enabling and Validating Act to facilitate the project.

 

The B.C. Supreme Court upheld the law in November last year, but the community group appealed, arguing the law crossed the line in bypassing the court's "supervisory role" enshrined by Constitution.

 

The three-judge appellate panel found the legislation "amounted to interference" with the court’s adjudicative role.

 

 

 

Peter Gall, the coalition's lawyers, said Monday that the ruling is a "very important rule-of-law decision."

 

"It affirms the constitutional principle that the legislature can't take away or usurp the right of citizens to challenge governmental action," Gall said. "That's what the legislature attempted to do here with the law it passed."

 

The ruling said the case wasn't about whether the housing crisis "requires action or whether the proposed development should proceed" — the "sole issue" was whether the province infringed upon the role of the court.

 

Gall said the coalition challenged the validity of the public hearing into the project, and did so by going to court. The provincial government "simply said that 'we deem the public hearing to be in compliance with the law,'" Gall said.

 

 

https://www.timescol...utional-9998912

[Mike K.]

PP does. Trudeau...

Ah, yes.