Property Speculaton Sucks money out of the Economy.

Property Market - Unproductive Credit

The concentration of credit and investment into the Property Market sucks money out of more productive Technology, Business, Manufacturing,  Renewable/Non-Renewable Resource and Agricultural development. The constrained Property Market most negatively effects Agricultural Investment and Food Sustainability.

A lot of Vancouver people have made their fortunes through property -- many still do -- but it has arguably come at the expense of a vibrant and healthy economy.

As the Vancouver economy continues to struggle -- and the likelihood of a recession grows by the day.

Governments have refused to do anything about the property parasite that continues to suck the life out of the economy.

Similar problem in Australia and California.
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2015/5/29/australian-news/property-investment-sucking-life-out-economy

http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/housing-costs.aspx

Building Less Housing Than People Demand Drives High Housing Costs. Vancouver is a desirable place to live. Yet not enough housing exists in the Greater Vancouver area to accommodate all of the households that want to live there. In these areas, community resistance to housing, environmental policies, lack of fiscal incentives for local governments to approve housing, and limited land constrains new housing construction. A shortage of housing  means households wishing to live there compete for limited housing. This competition bids up home prices and rents.  In addition to a shortage of housing, high land and construction costs also play some role in high housing prices.

The property transfer tax does NOT solve the 2 problems creating and sustaining unfordable housing and the inefficient car culture. Farmland speculation and micro land parcels speculation creating artificial land price pressure.

The first problem is when agricultural land is taken for housing and commercial development no money is set aside in a trust fund to return the land back to large efficient agricultural land plots. A result when communities population reduces the land remains unusable. This of course will be more critical as agricultural areas move with climate change. Actually the biggest problem here is farm land is sold at housing and commercial development prices. Which is much higher than the agricultural earning capacity of the land. The net result is land speculation becomes the major source of income for farmers. And farmers become less farmers and more land speculators.

The second problem is the land ownership is parceled up as small as possible to maximizing the developer/speculator profit. The land is parceled up so small that it cannot be redevelop with larger buildings without land speculators collecting connecting land into larger usable parcels at very high profits. The last house sold sets the price.

The solution is simple do NOT parcel land ownership to less than a block. Home owners are coop share owners of the block and vote as shareholders regarding redevelopment. And as shareholders the home owners share in the profits. This will eliminate the land speculation required to create larger connected lots necessary for larger buildings.

But our fight for freedom is not over. The souls given fighting for our freedom will not rest and neither should we.

But our fight for freedom is not over. The souls given fighting for our freedom will not rest and neither should we.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Stop Bill C51, creating laws to allow torture is never acceptable.

The poem is, flanders fields of John McCrae who live in Guelph Ontario, close to where I grew up.

John McCrae and his friends gave their lives in WWI so that we could live to enjoy the privilege of Democratic freedom.

Every Remembrance Day we wear a poppy in honour of John McCrae and his friends, personal sacrifice. When we wear the poppy we remember our promise to take up the Torch and fight for Freedom and Peace.

Personal note.

Westfield church on Westfield Rd, has stain glass windows in honour of soldiers who gave everything.

Property Market - Unproductive Credit

A lot of Vancouver people have made their fortunes through property -- many still do -- but it has arguably come at the expense of a vibrant and healthy economy.

As the Vancouver economy continues to struggle -- and the likelihood of a recession grows by the day.

Governments have refused to do anything about the property parasite that continues to suck the life out of the economy.

Similar problem in Australia and California.
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2015/5/29/australian-news/property-investment-sucking-life-out-economy

http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/housing-costs.aspx

Building Less Housing Than People Demand Drives High Housing Costs. Vancouver is a desirable place to live. Yet not enough housing exists in the Greater Vancouver area to accommodate all of the households that want to live there. In these areas, community resistance to housing, environmental policies, lack of fiscal incentives for local governments to approve housing, and limited land constrains new housing construction. A shortage of housing  means households wishing to live there compete for limited housing. This competition bids up home prices and rents.  In addition to a shortage of housing, high land and construction costs also play some role in high housing prices.

The property transfer tax does NOT solve the 2 problems creating and sustaining unfordable housing and the inefficient car culture. Farmland speculation and micro land parcels speculation creating artificial land price pressure.

The first problem is when agricultural land is taken for housing and commercial development no money is set aside in a trust fund to return the land back to large efficient agricultural land plots. A result when communities population reduces the land remains unusable. This of course will be more critical as agricultural areas move with climate change. Actually the biggest problem here is farm land is sold at housing and commercial development prices. Which is much higher than the agricultural earning capacity of the land. The net result is land speculation becomes the major source of income for farmers. And farmers become less farmers and more land speculators.

The second problem is the land ownership is parceled up as small as possible to maximizing the developer/speculator profit. The land is parceled up so small that it cannot be redevelop with larger buildings without land speculators collecting connecting land into larger usable parcels at very high profits. The last house sold sets the price.

The solution is simple do NOT parcel land ownership to less than a block. Home owners are coop share owners of the block and vote as shareholders regarding redevelopment. And as shareholders the home owners share in the profits. This will eliminate the land speculation required to create larger connected lots necessary for larger buildings.

When the Government signs away sovereignty the patriots must revolt.

When the Government signs away sovereignty the patriots must revolt.

There is no justification for including investor-state dispute in the FIPA.


http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/09/15/China-Investment-Treaty-Breakdown/?utm_source=fb-page-editor-post&utm_medium=fb-page&utm_campaign=fb-09-2014

There is no justification for including investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in either the CETA or the TTIP.
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/investor-state-dispute-settlement-ttip-and-ceta


As a friend, conservative and Harper supporter told me, revolution is the only way to change our system of elected dictatorship.

There are 2 ways to replace Harper
- Stand up against big international pre-election money and bring democracy
- Or embrace to the international money even more than Harper which I don't think is even possible

The trying to embrace pre-election campaign money and democracy is embracing democracy without accountability. And exactly what Harper is best at.


Elections Laws are about the most important of all laws in a Democracy. 
Elections Laws determine the who is elected and who they are accountable to.

The conservatives changes to elections laws, makes it difficult for students and more mobile people to vote.
Banning elections Canada from its duty of informing Canadians how to vote. And enabling uncapped spending for political parties to bring out their supporters, through the $20 exception. Preventing Elections Canada from launching immediate investigations into electoral fraud, dramatically reducing/effectively eliminating any real punishment for over spending.

http://www.slaw.ca/2014/02/09/why-the-conservatives-fair-elections-act-could-be-unconstitutional/

http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1867.html


Canada's election flawed laws are the reason we not able to obtain a Good Government. If you are in doubt for a second about this. Look at the FIFA, TPP and CETA investment treaties. These are secret agreement and are particularly harmful because it denies public access to arbitration case decisions miss-leading the public into believing their government is able to exercise sovereign powers.

There are 2 ways to replace Harper
Stand up against big international pre-election money and bring democracy
Or embrace to the international money even more than Harper which I don't think is even possible

Trying to embrace pre-election campaign money and democracy is embracing democracy without accountability. And exactly what Harper is best at.

The solution is monitoring and regulating pre-election direct and indirect advertising spending.

Corruption and democracy: Political finances - conflicts of interest -
lobbying - justice (2008)

Support Innovation through Access to Shared Spectrum

Support innovation through access to shared spectrum

"The hoarding of spectrum is a barrier to rural broadband" 

And the lack of price competitive wireless leaves Canada at a disadvantage with reduced business and growth opportunities. 

http://rspg-spectrum.eu/_documents/documents/meeting/rspg19/rspg09_278_erg_rspg_report_on_radio_spectrum_competition_issues_090604.pdf

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/wireless-auction-wont-do-much-for-competition-2014-01-13

Spectrum Auctions are anti-competitive.

"A monopoly-like situation in some frequency bands ... lead to a similar (monopoly-like)
competitive structure on the down-stream markets."

http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/rural-users-lose-when-spectrum-is-hoarded-experts/47863

Spectrum Sharing for mobile and wireless data services opens the market to new entry and greater competition.

Spectrum sharing can be based on:

- Separating the ownership of cell towers from wireless cell phone companies. With separate ownership of the cell towers all wireless cell phone companies would have access to all wireless spectrum bands.
The separately owned cell towers would sell bandwidth access to all wireless cell phone companies.

The biggest obstacle to the separate ownership of cell towers from wireless cell phone companies are incumbent cell phone companies who enjoy monopolistic benefits of their monopolistic ownership of frequency bands. It would be no small challenge to insure that possible centralized ownership of cell towers was not used to provide preferential access to one or more wireless cell phone companies.

AND/OR

- Improved roaming between hot spots operated by different operators of licensed spectrum and unlicensed "Wi-Fi" spectrum
Removing any need for centralized hot spot / cell ownership.

Some means to improving unlicensed "Wi-Fi" spectrum sharing

- Geographical sharing
"Advances in geolocation database technology are making it easier to exploit
spectrum sharing opportunities. Here databases hold information on the frequencies
available for sharing in different locations, known as white spaces. White space
devices query the database to determine suitable channel frequencies and powers."
- Increase the available "Wi-Fi" spectrum
- Dynamic Spectrum Access
"A licence exempt approach, such as that used by Wi-Fi, provides lower barriers to
spectrum access than a licensed approach."
"DSA approach could provide a useful complement to the use of Wi-Fi based on
licence exempt spectrum outdoors in helping maintain good outdoor quality of service
in high demand urban areas" and high power required for larger coverage in sparsely populated rural areas.


Benefits:
- Reducing barriers to spectrum access using licence exempt sharing:
Sharing spectrum within a band by different licence exempt (LE) devices can significantly reduce barriers to spectrum access compared to a licensed approach.
- Increasing the supply of spectrum: The sharing of existing frequency bands on a geographical basis to provide greater access to spectrum;

Limitations
- with geographical spectrum sharing additional effort to establish and enforce co-existence rules between existing spectrum users and new services sharing access to their spectrum
- possible tragedy of the commons whereby increasing numbers of users reduce the
overall quality of service provided for everyone.

DSA methods
- use “listen before talk” protocols with licensed spectrum similar to those used by Wi-Fi to avoid interfering with nearby white space devices
- hybrid approaches, combining both geolocation databases and sensing
- Intelligent antennas, that are able to accurately focus their energy between transmitter and receiver, could be used to reduce interference between users
- (most advanced) In the event that the spectrum available at a given location is non-contiguous, aggregation enables a device to combine frequency bands together into a usable carrier of sufficient bandwidth




http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/spectrum-sharing/summary/Spectrum_Sharing.pdf

FIPA like treaties with investor-state arbitration miss-lead the public into believing their government is able to exercise sovereign powers.

FIPA is particularly harmful because it denies public access to arbitration case decisions miss-leading the public into believing their government is able to exercise sovereign powers.

Harper's trade mission to India failed in part because FIPA like treaties with investor-state arbitration have hurt India in the past.

Also FIPA treaties are NOT required for trade "Brazil has not ratified a single investment treaty yet its foreign direct investment in 2011 stood at a record $66.7 billion."

India is not alone in questioning investor-state arbitration. South Africa recently declined to renew an investment treaty with Belgium and Luxembourg, and other such treaties are up for non-renewal or cancellation by South Africa. According to a review by the South African government, the treaties “pose risks and limitations on the ability of the government to pursue its constitutional-based transformation agenda”. The review was conducted after individual Italian investors with investments in South Africa’s mining industry brought investor-state arbitration claims against South Africa’s post-apartheid Black Economic Empowerment legislation. In Latin America, several countries have taken steps to limit their exposure to investor-state arbitration. Economic powerhouse Brazil has not ratified a single investment treaty yet its foreign direct investment in 2011 stood at a record $66.7 billion.

Developed countries have also reviewed the impact of investment treaties. In 2011, Australia decided not to include investor-state arbitration in future trade agreements. This decision was made in light of the ongoing threats by U.S. tobacco giant Philip Morris that it would sue the Australian government under an investment treaty for requiring warnings and plain packaging of cigarettes. Phillip Morris has since sued the Australian government under the Australia-Hong Kong investment treaty. Similarly, Philip Morris brought an arbitration claim against Uruguay, under a Switzerland-Uruguay investment treaty, after Uruguay required cigarette health warnings. Public interest groups have argued that investment treaties put pressures on government NOT to introduce environmental and health regulation.

Under FIPA, provincial, regional and municipal governments will be on the hook for payouts without having been party to the creation of this act. Where will the money come from?

Foreign national companies only need threaten. Provincial, Regional and Municipal governments without the resources to fight or chance payouts will block, retract environmental and health regulations protecting the health of Canada and its people. 

http://www.troymedia.com/2012/12/17/stephen-harper-left-india-with-no-fipa-heres-why/

To a nation the MOST DANGEROUS thing a citizenry allowing a LIAR to lead them.

To a nation the MOST DANGEROUS thing a citizenry allowing a LIAR to lead them.

No one likes to be made of fool of. Some will deny they have been lied to and refused to learn. Some will claim their deception was justified. But when a deceiving scoffer is exposed and rebuked, the naive gain wisdom.

Don't BE SILENT, shoot the truth, FIGHT.

"Although we like to think of ourselves as living in a mature democracy, we live, instead,in something little better than a benign dictatorship, not under a strict one-party rule, but under a one-party-plus system beset by the factionalism, regionalism and cronyism that accompany any such system.", Our benign dictatorship by Stephen Harper and Tom Flanagan.

The Prime Minister of Canada CONTROLS the appointments of many key figures in Canada's system of governance, including the governor general, the Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, senators, heads of crown corporations, ambassadors to foreign countries, the provincial lieutenant governors, and approximately 3,100 other positions. The Prime Minister selects the Cabinet, controls and has predominant role in the  majority of bills before parliament and in the leadership of the Canadian Forces.


With this CONTROL the Prime Minister of Canada is accountable to NO ONE.
Prime Minister able to deny threaded non-confidence votes, holding on to power.
Halting investigations into the Prime Minister's complicit support war crimes and other investigations / legal probes.

The decision to prorogue parliament must be parliamentary vote,  proceeded by legal notice and 10 days of debate. The act of prorogue must not have the power to halt any investigations and/or legal probes.


Again to a nation the MOST DANGEROUS thing a citizenry trusting a LIAR to lead them.

This occurs through unchallenged LIES

The Government conducting political warfare, promoting the Government's political message through a publicly funded media center, what we expect of tyrants.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2007/10/15/media-pm.html of http://news.gc.ca.
Government does not have the moral right to restrict any scientists in Canada speaking directly to the public and the press.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7387/full/483006a.html

Government does not have the moral right to undermine scientific research which may or may not produce findings in opposition to policies of the Government.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/canadas-restrictions-on-scientis-1.html
" It's almost that there's no government science being discussed now in Canada"
Our government is proud of n 80% reduction in the discussion of science. I am NOT!

We are fools being LIED to when.
- when the message attacks the opponent rather than their message.
- when the controlled message / slogan is too simple to be informative and is repeated endlessly.
- when easy access to public science is controlled/restricted
- when panic and anxiety is used to demand submission
- when applies social and religious prejudices
- always claims to be the most popular opinion
- nationalization and oversimplification, you are with us or against us
- justified BIG LIE repeated so often as rewrite peoples memories of history and accepted truth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques