The Cheapest House for sale in Victoria British Columbia today (January 13, 2025) is listed at:
That's 13.2 times Victoria's 2020 median household income of:
The total population of Victoria on July 31, 2023 is reported to have been precisely:
In 2024, Victoria is reported to have received
Of whom
The population replacement fertility rate is 2.1 births per woman
Canada is a dying nation, continually replacing its population with people from elsewhere
Sharply reducing the influx from elsewhere would give Canadians couples a better shot at finding affordable housing while they are still young and optimistic enough to have two, three, maybe even four, or five, or more kids.
But for that we need intelligent political leadership which has been sadly lacking during the Trudeau years. Will the Poilievre Tories do better? If so, they will have to slow the influx of migrants to boost housing availability at affordable prices, and to reduce labor availability so as to drive up wages.
There are plenty of big, rich, powerful interests that will push back against any such changes. The transition required will be a true test of Poilievre's metal.
As for the migrants to Canada, yes, for the most part, they are good people. But it is national suicide to pursue the Trudeau's policy of ever higher immigration rates that are driving the historic Canadian nation to extinction.
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