It's hard not to be sympathetic to that woman's plight but what government is sufficiently flush with cash to make good their loss? There are still people who believe that governments have an obligation to buy back homes that are no longer or soon will be no longer livable. They imagine that the old disaster relief regime can be continued. What then do we do with victims of sustained drought or recurrent severe flooding? The hard fact is that we don't have one government in Canada that can afford the cost of repairing and replacing essential infrastructure upon which our entire economy is mortally dependent. Much of this infrastructure was constructed over sixty years of relative prosperity but it was designed to meet the demands of a different, less challenging environment. That includes everything from electrical grids, water and sewer mains, roads and highways, railways, bridges and overpasses, ports and airports.
Just to add to your observations, Mound, we now live in the era where low taxes are a key to (re)election. I know. I live in Ontario, home of the Doug Ford Regressive Conservative Party majority government.
It's hard not to be sympathetic to that woman's plight but what government is sufficiently flush with cash to make good their loss? There are still people who believe that governments have an obligation to buy back homes that are no longer or soon will be no longer livable. They imagine that the old disaster relief regime can be continued. What then do we do with victims of sustained drought or recurrent severe flooding? The hard fact is that we don't have one government in Canada that can afford the cost of repairing and replacing essential infrastructure upon which our entire economy is mortally dependent. Much of this infrastructure was constructed over sixty years of relative prosperity but it was designed to meet the demands of a different, less challenging environment. That includes everything from electrical grids, water and sewer mains, roads and highways, railways, bridges and overpasses, ports and airports.
ReplyDeleteJust to add to your observations, Mound, we now live in the era where low taxes are a key to (re)election. I know. I live in Ontario, home of the Doug Ford Regressive Conservative Party majority government.
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