Loading ...CANADA’S DISGRACE — Homelessness increased by 20 per cent despite $443 million Liberal plan: PBO
Despite $443 million in new annual spending aimed to reduce homelessness (a 374% increase) the number of people without a roof over their head has grown by 20 per cent in Canada, according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
“In the latest point in time count published by Infrastructure Canada, the number of homeless people had increased by 20 per cent relative to 2018 reaching 34,270, and we estimate that the number of chronically homeless people had increased by 38 per cent relative to 2018.”
The solution to the challenges we’re facing around homelessness is not going to be achieved simply by supporting community initiatives,” he said. “To address them you have to go upstream, without the affordable housing stock to provide a roof over the heads for everyone in this country, we will never end homelessness.”
During question period, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asked how the government had managed to spend so much on homelessness program and achieve such poor results. “If it costs a half a billion dollars for him to drive up homelessness, how much would it cost to drive it down?”
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/liberals-homelessness-plan-pbo
I remember driving down Hastings street in East Vancouver when on the radio it was announced that Castreau was bringing in twenty fife thousand refugees from Afghanistan. Hastings and Main would rival any miserable slum in the world. These homeless down on their luck, drug addled and mentally unwell people are our own unfortunates, but we don’t care. The federal government spends almost nothing on them, allowing them to wallow in misery until they die. I figured that each refugee would cost us one hundred thousand dollars over time, perhaps much more. That’s two and a half billion dollars. We could go along way towards solving the homeless tragedy in our country with that kind of money. Those pathetic people are still down on Hastings and Main. It wouldn’t surprise me if they have been joined by quite a few refugees.
Just Hastings and Main? Try the the entire downtown, from Waterfront Station to False Creek, from Clark Drive right into the West End. One giant shithole. Tents everywhere, garbage all over, mentally unstable people screaming death threats to no one in particular, open drug use. The bus drivers fear for their lives, at least 20% of transit riders do not pay, they simply board and then proceed to give decent passengers the creeps with their erratic behaviour.
This is Turd-o’s Canada. Plenty here to rival even the most derelict of American slums.
And the sad part is, people in other countries have no idea how bad it’s become under dictator Turd-o 🙁