The Housing Crisis in Canada can almost be entirely laid at the feet of the USA channel: Home and Garden Channel. Why? Shows that encourage people to buy home and relist them without any upgrading, and demand more money from the next buyer. Shows like: Love it, or List it. Flip this House. Fix it or sell it. Etc. Voting just gets you a seat at the table to allow your voice to be heard. It's the very first step towards forcing the government to listen to your suggestions. E-mailing your local government official in a polite tone more or less forces them to reply to you at some point, if they keep ignoring you send them -blam!- with your message. Then they are contractually obligated to respond to you