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Re: FIRST READING: Canada intervenes (again) to stop housing prices going down — Tristin Hopper, June 23; and FIRST READING: Official Vancouver World Cup guide includes tips on how to do illicit drugs — Tristin Hopper, June 26

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Many thanks to Tristan Hopper and the National Post for delineating how absurd Canada has become. The National Post is exemplary in pointing out exactly what Canada is achieving with Mark Carney at the helm (and the sinking feeling so many citizens are experiencing in the process).

Case in point, the prime minister really understands housing — he is going to make a decision about the dump at 24 Sussex Drive and also bail out the B.C. condo market. What can’t this man do?

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The PM’s abandoned official mansion deserves to be preserved as an example (warning) of what government bureaucracy can achieve. Canadians, and the world, should flock to this attraction to learn this lesson. It is unfortunate that another prime example (the historic Daly Building at the intersection of Sussex Drive and Rideau Street in Ottawa) met an untimely end a number of years ago after similar prolonged dithering about its fate.

I’d like to suggest that rather than submit 24 Sussex to ridiculously expensive retrofitting, we use it for a reality show competition on the CBC to boost our national broadcaster’s sagging ratings. We don’t need world-class architects to figure this out — Canada has more than enough do-it-yourself designers and handymen to do the job.

Tristin Hopper also informed us about how Vancouver’s official FIFA guide contained tips instructing visitors how to do illicit drugs. (B.C’.s normalization of drug culture is another outstanding example of Canadian stupidity.) Bring people from around the world to watch soccer, and provide a real lesson for them about how we have dealt with the drug scourge. B.C. is right up there with that other West........

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