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What was that? "Society grows strong when men plant trees whose shade they will never stand in"?
That only applies when you don't have people ripping out the trees every other election cycle.
You guys have a warped perspective. Besides major infrastructure, most of the issues the feds aren’t even present in. It’s almost entirely local government, and they are a lot easier to change and influence.
I wasn't talking about the feds, I was talking about provincial governments in Canada, which municipalities and local governments are fully controlled by. So that small change also can't happen, because a premiere can just decide they want to override what the local government wants to do, and there's nothing you can do about that except wait for an election. And even then, our electoral system is so screwed up that the Conservatives have a majority government (allowing them to do whatever they want) with only 18% of eligible voters casting a ballot for them.
Change is possible, but there's a lotta steps we have to get through before urbanist advocacy is even going to be considered. Electorial reform bringing in MMPR is the first step.