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Yes? Land is cheap, space is available, and it borders the US.
Who itβs attractive to will change over time however.
Land ain't cheap where most of the immigrants end up going. Canada still offers a better quality of life but that will dimminish over time if housing issue is not addressed.
What we need is further investment in tech hub towns and cities, like Halifax did. In places that donβt burn/flood seasonally and have a reliable power supply. If that got spread out, housing wouldnβt be as much of an issue.
The number of places that don't burn or flood is only going to get smaller as climate change ramps up
Yep, if people don't pull their shit together we are gonna need to ban those camping or the fire will effectively erase camping grounds. (yes, I know natural cause fire exists.) We still have somewhat advantage in terms of fresh water precipitation so we don't need to import drinking water. But we still need some general civil engineering to deal with those flood/fire/heatwaves/arctic vortex cause they are going to be more common.
Okay but the prairies are fucking hugeee
But not invulnerable. Water is a growing problem in the Prairies, and as we're seeing from drought conditions in Southern Alberta, Canada is not immune from the problems we're seeing in the US.
As a Manitoba resident, let me tell you, if we've got one thing going for us, it's that we have more water in our province than most countries.
They're far from invulnerable, the nature of climate change is feedback loops, all it's going to take is an unusually hot, dry summer and some bad luck and you've got crop failure.
I fully agree with you and it's encouraging to see things like "Alberta Is calling" campaign. But, I wish the federal goverment would be more involved in spreading the immigrants around our vast land. It feels like all they do is set targets and "job done"...
You mean the radio spots that tell me I can own a house for 400k in Alberta? As much as I want to believe that that's not complete bullshit, I think it is bullshit and pity everyone who goes through just to come back to wherever they were before.
You can totally own like a nice 3-bedroom house in a nice area in Winnipeg right now for 400K. My house cost that much and even had a finished basement and is one, a much bigger plot than most houses.
But then you have to live in Winnipeg. There's a reason everything is cheap there
From Winnipeg, can confirm