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Les Leyne: Greens' views on 'decommodifying' housing may have quiet NDP support (TIMES COLONIST)


B.C.’s two Green MLAs’ frank thoughts on housing go a lot further than the government’s views. But it feels like some New Democrats would quietly agree with them, and are only constrained by the backlash ...

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  1. Hector HeislerOctober 21, 2023 at 3:57 PM

    Stop with all of these so-called 'human rights'. Authoritarian - if not totalitarian - governments are required to fulfill this so-called 'right' - a 'right' that is a staple of communist countries, not free ones.

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