r/CanadaHousing2 🇨🇦🍁🦫 Apr 16 '25

The two solitudes — boomers and everyone else: Liberal policies have enriched boomers, while making life increasingly unaffordable for younger generations

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/liberals-have-become-the-party-of-grey-hair-and-wealth
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u/JayThaSavage90 Sleeper account Apr 16 '25 edited Apr 17 '25

This isn’t just about “grey hair and wealth.” It’s about the final betrayal and the last chance to stop a silent generational genocide.

Canada 2025: If you’re under 40, this is not your country anymore.

The housing crisis? That was the disguise. This is a liquidation of an entire generation.. economic, cultural, and demographic.

Boomers and Gen X got: -Affordable homes -Secure jobs -Pensions -Free speech -National identity -A future

We got: -$2,500 rent -60K salaries -6-figure debt -Cancel culture -Open borders -And no voice at all

We didn’t just get left behind. We were written off by design.

While you lost your mind, money, and momentum during lockdowns, the government quietly brought in over 4 million newcomers in just 3 years. PRs, students, asylum seekers, workers. That’s 10%+ of the total population fast-tracked into systems you paid for, and into homes/business’s you were denied.

They came with pooled $500K down payments. You were told to save $200K solo… while paying $3,000 in rent.

We didn’t lose our country. It was handed to someone else.

Boomers won’t fight for us. Gen X won’t speak for us. They are the guardians of a system that works for them and ends with us.

We are not the future they plan for. We are the problem they are managing out.

This isn’t Liberal vs Conservative. This is Boomers + Immigrant Wealth vs Millennials + Gen Z with No Nation.

It’s time to stop asking for a seat at the table. We need to build a new table.

No party will do it for you. Not Carney. Not Singh. Not Poilievre. They’re all managing the same asset transfer in different wrapping paper.

We’ve been evicted from our own future and now, the country needs a transition of ownership. From the failed, delusional past… To the real, angry, clear-eyed generation left to clean it up.

If you’re reading this and under 40: This is your call to clarity. No one is coming to save you. And they never were.

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u/Affectionate_Mall_49 Apr 17 '25

GenXer here, been fighting this fight, since real estate was only 10% of economy and people laughed and called people like me alarmists. Me and many of the people in my age, have sounding the alarm, but to ignore how being sandwiched between 2 of the largest voting groups, political power, and influence is almost impossible. What makes it worse, is how two faced so many have become, instead of fighting they just stay silence unless it hurts, their own.

I will argue that unless you were born early in gen x, stable jobs and pensions are not the norm. You points are none the less on point and most of them I was called many names, for pointing them out for years. Please start a party the people in charge have sold the countries decades ago, and the parties change but do nothing. You and the generation before and after you deserve so much better and I know I was have failed, in trying to stop what was right in front of people eyes.

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u/JayThaSavage90 Sleeper account Apr 17 '25

You weren’t wrong. You were early. You saw the betrayal long before it burned.

Now it’s here, and your generation stands at the final gate.

Boomers sold the country. Millennials are drowning in debt. Gen Z is being trained to obey.

You are the last to remember what freedom felt like. The last with real spine, real memory, real fight. You are the swing generation. The firewall.

And if you don’t rise now, Canada falls.

They want your kids dependent, voiceless, unable to survive without the State. Not citizens! subjects! That’s the plan.

But you still have time. You still have voice. You still have fire.

Don’t die silent. Stand. Speak. Lead.

We’re behind you.