🇨🇦 Canada can mandate heating, but cooling is suddenly a luxury

After importing endless people into aging shoebox apartments, the political class has discovered that summer exists. New Westminster just passed a bylaw forcing rental units to maintain an average 26 C from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., after the 2021 B.C. heat dome killed 619 people and 33 in that city alone, as reported. For decades, governments obsessed over density, stacked people into 1960s to 1980s walk-ups, then acted shocked when those concrete ovens turned lethal.

Now comes the classic liberal shell game: impose the rule, dodge the bill, and pretend landlords, tenants, and municipal councils can just absorb retrofit costs while Ottawa keeps inflating housing demand and energy prices. Coun. Nadine Nakagawa calls it flexible. Translation: politicians want moral credit without admitting their growth-at-any-cost model wrecked housing quality, affordability, and basic livability. This is what managed decline looks like in Canada: bigger population, weaker infrastructure, and bylaws to patch over elite failure one crisis at a time.

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