@ #1
it is becoming more and more obvious to intl investors (and highly skilled workers) that seattle, los angeles and sf have so much more to offer. this will be reflected in RE values in due time. as things are at the present moment, vanc RE is likely the most overvalued in N. America (and possibly a contender for the global title too)

@ #5
when referring to “most”, i meant those that previously voted for him (and might have been considering a change for whatever reason). imho i think most of these ppl will now maintain the status quo given all the economic uncertainty;

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/15/federal-tories-lead-the-liberals-across-canada-including-in-ontario/

re: @5 “Most voters have never voted for Harper’s Cons in the first place and all indications are that they never will”

Don’t believe that there has been many governments, Liberals included, that ever received a majority of all votes.

I delayed updating my 6 city housing chart until yesterday when I got the total Canadian MLS sales figures for Dec 2014 to see where the year ended up relative to the peak national sales in Dec 2007 prior to the crash into the March 2008 pit of gloom:

http://www.chpc.biz/6-canadian-metros.html

The national MLS sales number for Dec 2014 is 8% below the Dec 2007 peak.

It doesn’t sound like much of a drop (over 7 years) but it looks like a big miss for 2014 which was a banner year for bidding up prices.

….Most voters have never voted for Harper’s Cons in the first place …

At the risk of pointing out the obvious, ‘most voters’ have never voted for any of the other parties either.

@#8 It does appear, that the real battle is between the NDP and the Libs as to who will be the ‘progressive’ party. This may take up to a decade to play out with one beating the other to oblivion or the two joining.

This ‘progressive’ party will then go on to represent the ‘have not’ provinces east of the Ottawa River and the cultural elites in the inner cities of Canada’s major centres. The Cons will focus on the West and suburban Ontario.

Not really. Chinese, as a group, vote conservative.

@4

Canada is no bodies first choice. They came here because it was easy to get in, just lend the government some money. It is now more difficult (end of IIP), so now they are going to the USA.

Interestingly, some of the ‘rich’ that came with the IIP weren’t even very rich. They falsified their net worth ( fraudulent immigration documents from China are well known and documented by globe and mail ), and got their $800k to lend to the government from a loan.

You’ll see a lot of these people in older dilapidated houses Richmond, Burnaby, and Coquitlem.

Take a few mins to read over their platform. It’s a longshot but they’ll gain more and more over the next few elections. They just have ideas that make sense. Foraward thinking, the rest are corrupt and will tell you what you want to hear to get elected.

http://www.greenparty.ca/platform/smart-economy

@#14 “The Cons will focus on the hillbillies in the rural West and white suburban Ontario.”

That stereotype works well… for the 20th century.

The suburbs are not so white. The West and Suburban Ontario is where new immigrants go, and they are non-white, asian, and more economically conservative.

Harper is a sociopath. Get him out.

…At the risk of pointing out the obvious, you are wrong…..

At the risk of pointing out the even more obvious, no I’m not.