The waterfront ridings seem to continue to vote for people who promise things which they are completely incapable of offering. My only explanation for it is that they don't want anything done at all, if it's to be done through politics.

I would personally prefer measures to reduce the (negative) impact of government on cost of living, to measures which inherently increase it, but voices like mine tend to be crowded out by "urbanists" and "technologists" who think they know precisely what is best for all of us.