Glen Murray

🇨🇦 CANADA NEEDS MORE THAN AN IMMIGRATION POLICY. WE NEED A NATIONAL SETTLEMENT STRATEGY. We spend enormous political energy debating how many people should come to Canada. Almost none debating where and how we should grow as a country. Where will people live and work? Which cities and regions should we strengthen? How do we build affordable housing, efficient infrastructure and productive communities without driving up the cost of living and doing business? Immigration policy determines who enters Canada. A settlement strategy determines how we build a prosperous country. We need a National Settlement Strategy to 2050, built on five pillars: 1. PLAN WHERE WE GROW. Establish national and regional population-growth scenarios, coordinated with housing, employment, infrastructure, energy and environmental capacity. Build up existing cities, revitalize smaller centres and create more choices about where Canadians can prosper. 2. BUILD PRODUCTIVE REGIONAL ECONOMIES. Align immigration, skills, universities, industrial innovation and private investment with each region's economic strengths. Create new centres of opportunity instead of concentrating growth in a handful of increasingly unaffordable metropolitan areas. 3. BUILD EFFICIENT, COMPLETE COMMUNITIES. Reverse our addiction to expensive, land-consuming sprawl. Prioritize housing affordability, compact neighbourhoods, productive construction, efficient energy systems and transportation. Measure infrastructure, land and energy consumed per home and job. 4. CONNECT PEOPLE TO OPPORTUNITY. Integrate immigration and internal migration with employment, housing, education, healthcare and community development. Settlement is about creating places where people can build successful lives, not simply counting arrivals. 5. FINANCE PROSPERITY, NOT SPRAWL. Align federal, provincial and municipal investment with long-term settlement plans. Reward communities that build productive tax bases, retain wealth and reduce lifetime infrastructure costs rather than accumulating public liabilities. WE DON'T HAVE TO INVENT THIS FROM SCRATCH. 🇮🇪 IRELAND — PLAN THE DISTRIBUTION OF GROWTH. Its original Project Ireland 2040 framework allocated 25% of projected population growth to Dublin, 25% to four other major cities and 50% to regional centres, towns and rural communities. Its framework was updated in 2025. 🇯🇵 JAPAN — MAKE SETTLEMENTS MORE EFFICIENT. Its Compact + Network approach concentrates homes, services and economic activity in accessible centres connected by transportation, reducing the costs of scattered development. 🇰🇷 SOUTH KOREA — BUILD REGIONAL ECONOMIC ENGINES. Its territorial and balanced-growth strategies connect regional innovation hubs, universities, industries, talent, infrastructure and investment to create economic opportunities beyond Seoul. Canada could integrate and build on all three approaches, adapting them to our geography, federalism and diverse communities. Our greatest economic challenge is not simply how many people we welcome. It's how productively we build the places where people live. We need to stop managing population growth as a numbers exercise and start treating settlement as a nation-building strategy. Immigration grows our population. Smart settlement grows our prosperity. #Canada #Productivity #Housing #Immigration #Infrastructure #Cities

Further proofof lessons not learned. Miller, Jordan. The electors memo about fatigue with angry assholes didn't get into Republican in boxes.

Urgently.

Lessons not learned. Another lesson in 2028 coming up.

Boycott the Game!

Who trusts CBS now that they are owned by a Trumpist cheerleader.

Sure he is now. He has been a super-Trumper, flipped to being anti Ukraine soon as Trump was re-elected. He is a pro Iran War, pro ICE, pro Russia, Anti Canada. He has been the most anti Obamacare Senator and won by less than by 1% in last election. He is up for reelection in 2028 and his seat is the most likely flip to Democrat. The other Senator from Wisconsin is the amazing Tammy Baldwin a Democrat. #DumpTrumpers #DumpJohnson #Wisconsin