I Want Out - The Toronto Raptors Story

[Mister Ze]

Look, I dont want to get into it, but its an act designed to discourage foreigners from purchasing real estate and to keep them out under the guise of a property bubble. The pricing surge has since regressed and depressedand yet the tax still remains.

Im against painting cities under a broad stroke, but Toronto, between that and electing a self proclaimed racist in Rob Ford, shouldnt be the city thats eager to cast stones.

For the record, Boston has a lot of ugly and a lot of beauty. Toronto, too, has a lot of ugly and a lot of beauty. Residents of either city shouldnt be eager to try to demean the other.

Trust me when I say Canada is the EASIEST country to get citizenship, I work in the public sector. We have programs designed to lure students/skilled immigrants to make their transition easy and we're basically begging people to come live here, the PM accepted 25k Syrian refugees like it was nothing, and then you had that African-American fly to Toronto and successfully be granted asylum when he claimed the police were racially profiling him. Our Immigration and Refugee Protection act is so vague it's so easy for someone to come live here.

And Boston and the metro areas are sanctuary cities. You can internet measure your dick all you want, but its kind of pointless.

The housing market in Toronto has exploded over the last 10 years to the point where young professionals are unable to buy homes - they're forced to rent. People were putting pressure on the government to do something about it. Claiming the real estate tax was an act to keep foreigners out is ridiculous. If those same foreigners wanted to immigrate here it would be a simple process. Also, this is kind of funny coming from someone who lives in a country whose president blatantly referred to African countries as **** holes and denied those muslim majority countries from coming to the USA, but lets not get into that.

We didnt vote for the president, dont agree with him and openly defy him when it comes to illegal immigrants. If youre reaching for that, youre failing.

Not sure what internet measure my dick even means, you sound like you're in high school. I just came to clear up the bull **** you were talking out of your ass claiming Toronto's real estate tax was racist. Next time do your homework, and stay in school

[SmartWentCrazy]

Trust me when I say Canada is the EASIEST country to get citizenship, I work in the public sector. We have programs designed to lure students/skilled immigrants to make their transition easy and we're basically begging people to come live here, the PM accepted 25k Syrian refugees like it was nothing, and then you had that African-American fly to Toronto and successfully be granted asylum when he claimed the police were racially profiling him. Our Immigration and Refugee Protection act is so vague it's so easy for someone to come live here.

And Boston and the metro areas are sanctuary cities. You can internet measure your dick all you want, but its kind of pointless.

The housing market in Toronto has exploded over the last 10 years to the point where young professionals are unable to buy homes - they're forced to rent. People were putting pressure on the government to do something about it. Claiming the real estate tax was an act to keep foreigners out is ridiculous. If those same foreigners wanted to immigrate here it would be a simple process. Also, this is kind of funny coming from someone who lives in a country whose president blatantly referred to African countries as **** holes and denied those muslim majority countries from coming to the USA, but lets not get into that.

We didnt vote for the president, dont agree with him and openly defy him when it comes to illegal immigrants. If youre reaching for that, youre failing.

Not sure what internet measure my dick even means, you sound like you're in high school. I just came to clear up the bull **** you were talking out of your ass claiming Toronto's real estate tax was racist. Next time do your homework, and stay in school

I never said it was racist.

And you Toronto fans keep coming to this thread to necro it and talk about how much more progressive your city is than Boston— thats internet dick measuring.

The reality is, theyre two of the more similar cities in the world— both have similar accolades and both have similar dark spots. Its ridiculous that so many of you have come here trying to talk down to Boston as if Toronto is any different.

[truth18]

And Boston and the metro areas are sanctuary cities. You can internet measure your dick all you want, but its kind of pointless.



We didnt vote for the president, dont agree with him and openly defy him when it comes to illegal immigrants. If youre reaching for that, youre failing.

Not sure what internet measure my dick even means, you sound like you're in high school. I just came to clear up the bull **** you were talking out of your ass claiming Toronto's real estate tax was racist. Next time do your homework, and stay in school

I never said it was racist.

And you Toronto fans keep coming to this thread to necro it and talk about how much more progressive your city is than Boston— thats internet dick measuring.

The reality is, theyre two of the more similar cities in the world— both have similar accolades and both have similar dark spots. Its ridiculous that so many of you have come here trying to tall down to Boston as if Toronto is any different.

I'd be insecure and lurking big dick websites too if my sports culture cock was that small.

[Mister Ze]

I never said it was racist.

And you Toronto fans keep coming to this thread to necro it and talk about how much more progressive your city is than Boston— thats internet dick measuring.

The reality is, theyre two of the more similar cities in the world— both have similar accolades and both have similar dark spots. Its ridiculous that so many of you have come here trying to tall down to Boston as if Toronto is any different.

Yeah you didn't say it was racist, but this is what you said and the implication was pretty clear; don't call us xenophobic when you did this(Something that wasn't xenophobic)

CHL is a parody account. Go look at his post history, its all satire. Lighten up

Also, Toronto literally enacted a special tax for foreigners who buy homes within the past year— you might not want to call others xenophobic.

I agree that Raps fans shouldn't be coming here to talk down to Boston, like we're any different. I just came to talk about the real estate tax.

[SmartWentCrazy]

I never said it was racist.

And you Toronto fans keep coming to this thread to necro it and talk about how much more progressive your city is than Boston— thats internet dick measuring.

The reality is, theyre two of the more similar cities in the world— both have similar accolades and both have similar dark spots. Its ridiculous that so many of you have come here trying to tall down to Boston as if Toronto is any different.

Yeah you didn't say it was racist, but this is what you said and the implication was pretty clear; don't call us xenophobic when you did this(Something that wasn't xenophobic)

CHL is a parody account. Go look at his post history, its all satire. Lighten up

Also, Toronto literally enacted a special tax for foreigners who buy homes within the past year— you might not want to call others xenophobic.

I agree that Raps fans shouldn't be coming here to talk down to Boston, like we're any different. I just came to talk about the real estate tax.

Xenophobia isnt racism. And the tax is a ‘Toronto First’ policy.

[JunkYardDog6ix]

Again, it may be well intentioned, but a law designed to disadvantaged foreigners and disuade them from coming to your city is by definition Xenophobic.

I don't think you understand. They have no interest in coming to our cities. They buy form overseas, they stay wherever they are, they sell from overseas.

So if I, an American, wanted to move to Toronto and buy a home, would i pay the tax? If the answer is no, then i agree with you. If the answer is yes, i dont understand how that isnt xenophobic.

For the record, pretty much everyone home on Boston goes over list and many new construction units have been purchased by Chinese nationals. No similar tax has been introduced.

Your lack of knowledge of the Toronto housing market is very evident. You have no idea whatsoever what you are talking about. Make jokes about Toronto all you want but don't pretend like you know something when you don't comparing Chinese investments in Boston to Toronto is just laughable