Editor:
An 82-year-old woman is forced to live in her car as she has no access to emergency or affordable accommodation here on the Coast (Coast Reporter, July 29). On the next page we read of a 21,000 sq. ft. mansion in Langdale that has been sold to Chinese businessmen from Vancouver for $6.6 million. They still have their Vancouver properties.
Canada’s population grows by over 600,000 annually (factoring in regular immigrants and spouses/dependents, births minus deaths, inward investors, refugees and asylum seekers, four-year work permit holders who acquire PR status and “others”).
In 2015 Canada had over 150,000 homeless and over 850,000 people using food banks every month. Canada’s total debts (federal, provincial, P3 and household) exceeded $5 trillion in 2014, and that continues to grow.
Trudeau, Clark and others find all the funding they need for their pet projects and to deploy troops in around 17 countries. People on an average or above average income in major Canadian cities cannot get on the property ladder without access to family money.
Time for the rhetoric and spin to end and for those who seek and enjoy the trappings of high office to get their act together and solve these problems.
Charity begins at home, Mr. Trudeau and Ms. Clark.
Paul Rhodes, Sechelt
