Land Reform needed
Canada is a horrible country when it comes to the issue of land. If you are business you are made to jump through a myriad of red tape and pay legal fees and you end up being a hostage of the system. It is no different if you are private homeowner who wants to build in municipalities or towns. It is a wonder that anyone anywhere can get land to build houses or businesses on.
Then the government wonders why only the richest get homes, or why there are so few businesses that strike out on new land.
I think the entire fee simple system needs to be looked at. It is legalized loansharking if you ask me, you literally have to buy the lease on the land, you don't really own the land, you lease it. So really no one in Canada really owns land. Even the natives are forced to sign land claims that accept this principle of leased land.
There are no land owners in Canada, except Government.
It is time that people were given the chance to own land and not be beholding for ninety years or whatever the lease says, to some local government that could at a whim decide to build and overpass or railway or decide your home is slated to house the next sewage lagoon or that they have sold it to Walmart. Honestly.
Generations of people who lived on the land before like farmers, who knew the system well enough and it was fair to some degree could rely on solid issues like a reliable bank that would not raise its rates, or have some megacity encroach and raise land taxes.
Then in Canada we wonder why are there so few farmers? Owning land is really a myth, cause you never really own it, you own the deed which is basically a lease, cause you pay land taxes and when you die sometimes the lease does not transfer and your children don't inherit the credit you've built up so they are forced in some parts of the country with starting all over again.
Land ownership though seems to favour large corporations that can access tax relief and government handouts in some cases allowing them to remain on the land as long as the right politician is in power.
It is no wonder in some parts of the world revolutions are fought and strange political ideals imposed around land, collectivism basically benefitted those who could afford to pay off the bureacrats, and republicans lost their newly acquired land to the bank if they had a bad year and couldn't pay the taxes or the interest rates.
That is why the world should look at a better system of providing land.
In those parts of the world that are lucky enough to provide social housing, like Canada, often the projects fall into dispair because the societies or boards set up go bankrupt paying the land taxes, so you get what we call the "projects", ghettos.
Or you get provincially funded social housing that goes bankrupt paying to both the municipal and provincial bodies, which seems a bit of a paradox.
Without land people cannot build housing, without adequate housing people cannot live prosperous meaningful lives. Society cannot benefit. only the rich could do that. Why can't we as a people change it so we as a people benefit? Why do only a few handful of rich people benefit at the expense of all?
Then the government wonders why only the richest get homes, or why there are so few businesses that strike out on new land.
I think the entire fee simple system needs to be looked at. It is legalized loansharking if you ask me, you literally have to buy the lease on the land, you don't really own the land, you lease it. So really no one in Canada really owns land. Even the natives are forced to sign land claims that accept this principle of leased land.
There are no land owners in Canada, except Government.
It is time that people were given the chance to own land and not be beholding for ninety years or whatever the lease says, to some local government that could at a whim decide to build and overpass or railway or decide your home is slated to house the next sewage lagoon or that they have sold it to Walmart. Honestly.
Generations of people who lived on the land before like farmers, who knew the system well enough and it was fair to some degree could rely on solid issues like a reliable bank that would not raise its rates, or have some megacity encroach and raise land taxes.
Then in Canada we wonder why are there so few farmers? Owning land is really a myth, cause you never really own it, you own the deed which is basically a lease, cause you pay land taxes and when you die sometimes the lease does not transfer and your children don't inherit the credit you've built up so they are forced in some parts of the country with starting all over again.
Land ownership though seems to favour large corporations that can access tax relief and government handouts in some cases allowing them to remain on the land as long as the right politician is in power.
It is no wonder in some parts of the world revolutions are fought and strange political ideals imposed around land, collectivism basically benefitted those who could afford to pay off the bureacrats, and republicans lost their newly acquired land to the bank if they had a bad year and couldn't pay the taxes or the interest rates.
That is why the world should look at a better system of providing land.
In those parts of the world that are lucky enough to provide social housing, like Canada, often the projects fall into dispair because the societies or boards set up go bankrupt paying the land taxes, so you get what we call the "projects", ghettos.
Or you get provincially funded social housing that goes bankrupt paying to both the municipal and provincial bodies, which seems a bit of a paradox.
Without land people cannot build housing, without adequate housing people cannot live prosperous meaningful lives. Society cannot benefit. only the rich could do that. Why can't we as a people change it so we as a people benefit? Why do only a few handful of rich people benefit at the expense of all?
posted by joshie mitsima at
2:10 p.m.
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