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653 sats \ 13 comments \ @grayruby 4h Politics_And_Law

Great article in the National Post by John Ivison about a Vietnamese family that fled communism to now have their property expropriated and redistributed in Canada.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/they-came-fleeing-communism-now-ottawas-expropriating-and-redistributing-their-property

TLDR: The Nguyen family left Vietnam in the 70s when the communists took over. They rebuilt their lives in Canada and started a fishing business. They struggled for decades but the business eventually became successful. Now the Canadian government (Department of Fisheries) is stepping in to expropriate 75% of their quota and redistribute it to local First Nations and their own employees.

I sent this article to all my Canadian Real Estate truther friends who keep piling all their net worth into real estate. If they will take your fish, what stops them from taking your rental properties?

Sats for all, GR

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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 2h

fishing quota (private property? no, right?) is very different from renting properties, but it's a sign of things to come. Very bad ...

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 2h

If you have a license to fish then the fish you catch are your property.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 1h

Unpaywalled version of the article:

https://archive.vn/UOtWe

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 1h

There was a paywall? Interesting. Maybe outside of Canada. No paywall on my end.

50 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 4h

I certainly feel for them, but they did have to travel right past America to get to Canada.

Americans have been telling everyone that Canadians are a bunch of commies, since the dawn of time.

33 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby OP 4h

Fair. I don't think America was very welcoming to the Vietnamese in the 70s.

40 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 4h

How's the view from your high horse?

20 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby OP 4h

I have no horse when my government is stealing people's shit. It's a disgrace and embarrassing. I am just pointing out why they might have preferred Canada at the time.

40 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 4h

It really is horrible. During the height of the War on Terror, we strongly considered moving to Canada or New Zealand. How the mighty have fallen.

16 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby OP 4h

Good thing you didn't. I expect things will marginally improve once Trudeau is out but so much of the nanny state nonsense and welfare state has become entrenched it is hard to change things. Mike Harris is still talked about like he is the devil by much of the population in Ontario from when he was Premier of the province all he did was cut some social/gov programs so they could balance the budget and people talk about it like they were suffering through the Irish potato famine.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 3h

We have some family that might be moving to Toronto for work reasons, but they're moving from one of America's most expensive commie cities, so it's more or less a lateral move.

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 3h

Toronto is a nice city if you have to live in the city. If they do plan to move let me know and I will send you some good areas to live.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 1h

That's not bad Got freedom