Cats and the Full Monte

In a recent article about the influx of homeless cats in Victoria (people who can't care for them anymore are forced to dump them) a statistic caught my eye: "the median cost of a single detached home is about $530,000, according to the Victoria Real Estate Board, which puts owning a home out of reach for many." You don't say? Half a million bucks. Where's the real crime here; the large number of cats abandoned by those who can no longer care for them, or the prohibitively high cost of home ownership that created the problem in the first place? I feel terrible for the cats, but its a symptom of a larger problem. The article claims that "Victoria's apartment-vacancy rate last year was 0.5 per cent, one of the tightest in Canada, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.""Globe and Mail" So you get evicted from your shitty apartment you are forced into because you can't afford a mortgage on minimum wage, and the search for a new apartment is made impossible by the ridiculous lack of apartment vacancy. So what are you supposed to do with your cat? Haul it around on the street?
Hopefully, these homeless cats will act as a symbol for the homeless people; in the same twisted way that the world's mainstream media pre-9-11 finally began caring about Afghanistan because a giant Buddha statue was destroyed."BBC News" Oppression of the masses; forget it, those bastards destroyed a statue!! I will never understand the media's priorities.
Let's collectively denounce Federal Housing Minister Monte Solberg's failure to attend a closed-door meeting with Canada's Provincial and Territorial Housing Ministers because of "parliamentary business in Ottawa." That better be pretty important business, Mr. Solberg. Isn't that your job? Shouldn't that be your priority?
"Liberal social development critic Ruby Dhalla says this is the first time in almost a decade the federal government has failed to take part in a national housing meeting."CKNW"
Solberg's website has a rather extensive section on homelessness; which includes: "Recently, I toured Vancouver's infamous Downtown Eastside, and saw first-hand the soul destroying mix of mental illness, addiction and homelessness that plagues the area. This government believes that we, as a country, are morally obliged to do more to help.""Monte Solberg:A New Strategy for Helping the Homeless" Well, he has a funny way of showing it. The whole party does. There is no "Progressive" in "Progressive Conservative."