" If we can’t afford to live here, 99 per cent of Canadians can’t afford to live here. What happens to a city when no one can afford to live in it?"
                 
   Indeed.
  The city ceases to be a home and becomes a giant lucrative plaything of billionaires in the tourist industry and an investment opportunity for wealthy foreigners. A possession of the 1%. This is not a democracy but a medieval feudal system.
   I might add the same applies to the legal system, since the majority of Canadians cannot afford a lawyer. Without a lawyer the average person cannot obtain justice. The absence of equal justice for all is   not only unjust and antidemocratic, it's uncivilized.
   Same applies to university.
  In BC, people with disabilities were recently stripped of affordable access to public transit. 
       Further, if several million Canadians cannot access a doctor and not all receive top quality health care, we know we've lost the democracy we thought we had.