Housing rebates are fucking stupid. You take a condo, let's say it sold for 635k before the rebate - the sale price is now 638k... housing rebates are a wealth transfer from our tax dollars to those rich enough to currently own houses.

Thanks for the breakdown - rebates get thrown around as helping the little man all the time and it's fucking bullshit.

that is conservatives favourite tactic: rebates and checks while they bleed the social support services. then rebates fall under "frivolous spending that's ought to stop" and unsuspecting public ends up with no rebates and no social support system. works miracles, ask Albertans. UCP was set to lose and then... just before elections they've sprinkled some cheques here and there and... lo-and-behold: they've won ( going back to their shenanigans immediately after taking office ). TLDR; those things comimg from politicians are trojan horses, from comservative politicians - doubly so. System needs fixing to not stink rather than gifting everybody a gallon of Febreze...