🇨🇦 Pay fees, hire guards, absorb the crime

Windsor builders are paying $20,000 to $30,000 in permits and inspections, sinking $1.6 million into new housing, then getting hit by copper thieves four times in one summer while city hall shrugs and suggests private security. That is the Trudeau-era Canadian model in one neat package: government collects, bureaucracy lectures, citizens pay again when the state stops doing the basic job of maintaining order. Allen Wu’s project near the University of Windsor was vandalized so often that even the latest break-in was just chaos for sport, as reported.

And these same people still sermonize about a housing shortage as if homes materialize from DEI workshops and immigration targets. Builders are told to build faster while every site near the university gets looted, police go silent, and the mayor’s office offers a privatized workaround after pocketing public money. Canada is being governed like a managed decline project: import demand, inflate costs, hollow out enforcement, then act baffled when productive people stop trusting the system.

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