Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and Brantford most vulnerable to tariffs

[danbrotherston]

I put it in quotes because it's not democratic at all, and yet this sort of little veto power exists everywhere. In most EU states, the idea of the collective occasionally overriding the individual is an accepted fact of good government. To many in the anglosphere, it's deeply offensive - and is why the housing crisis is mostly an Anglosphere problem. If you can "get yours" and deny it to somebody else, driving up the value of your assets, you're gonna do it! This applies to pipelines and houses and factories and mines and all sorts of things that are public goods but subject to the craziest vetoes.

Ahh, sorry I missed your point.

Yes, the collective good vs. individual liberty is a very US centric issue and "individual liberty" usually doesn't come down to EVERYONE's individual liberty, just specific people's liberty.

That said, the housing crisis is far wider than that, I can say from personal experience it's an issue in the NLs, but I've heard it's an issue all over Europe at least (well, western Europe anyway).