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Not directly comparable, but there are shared principles. The main one being "If you put everything on a credit card and just keep making those minimum payments, it eventually catches up with you and something catastrophic happens. If you don't deal with it your kids will"

When we're near the bottom of the barrel for GDP in such a resource rich country, there's obviously something very wrong.

On what premise do you base that statement? I interviewed hundreds of parents who were seeking to enroll their child and never ONCE did I get that attitude from them. They enroll because they care about their kids, because they are worried about the decline of standards in the public school system, because they like a particular program in the school... but never THAT. And they definitely value education.

Conservatives consider math leftist propaganda

Lol. WHERE did you get that gem?

I strongly disagree. In fact if you look at who values education the most, its Conservative parents as they are, by far, the largest demographic who put their children in independent schools. Those schools still have to follow the provincial curriculum and have fully certified teachers, but the public system is ambivalent or openly hostile to conservative values and dont allow for specialties which is where independent schools come in. Its the parents who dont really care about education who leave their kids in public schools where standards are often lower and the parents are are less interested in educational outcomes.

Conservative parents are so committed they are willing to pay their full tax bill, PLUS pay for tuition on top, despite the average income being at or BELOW the provincial average - because they value solid education based on strong values, not the 'dumbed down' robots you're suggesting.

Well, 10 years ago when the Liberals took control our national debt was 692 billion. Today its 1.46 trillion.

So we’ve doubled the debt under the Liberals and is there ANY metric that says Canada is doing better now with our ROI than 10 years ago? Are we getting a good ROI on doubling our 'investment' under their strategy?

The Liberals honestly believe that we can spend our way to prosperity. With our tax dollars.

Thats not working.

Calgary and Edmonton are the two main centers but not everyone wants to pay the price for living in a big city. There are lots of jobs in smaller centers.

But here's the thing. You can move to Calgary but you're going to need to buy a house for at least 600,000. OR you can move to a smaller center and get a house for one tenth of that price.

Now look at the difference in mortgage payments at 5.25%. The Calgary house is going to be 3400. The small town mortgage is going to be $340.

Which means in the small town, you can buy a house paying your mortgage working a minimum wage job and still have money to spare, but in Calgary you better be making over 100k if you hope to qualify for that 600k house.

Sometimes small town living just makes far more financial sense. Especially when youre in driving distance to a bigger city.

Nope. Its not the economy. Its supply. There are charts that track available units for each type (apartment, main floor, basement suite, whole house, etc) on the landlord menu of Rentfaster.com. I can look at almost every category and see that the supply is up from what it was a year ago.

eg. Last year on Sept 1 there were **1066 **two bedroom apartments available This year on Sept 1 there were **1468 **two bed room apartments available

Therefore, average rent for those apartments last year was 2335. This year its **2251 **and dropping. Currently the average has now dropped to **2137 **as of last week. Thats down 8.4%

The rental market is pretty simple. When there's more supply prices drop. When there's more demand, prices go up.