in many major canadian cities right now the minimum required income to meet the income ratio tests to afford a new mortgage for the cheapest, smallest 1BD condo on the market is now $150,000/year.
the real estate value bubble has expanded beyond all reasonable limits.
entirely aside from the assisted death issue, something has gone fundamentally wrong in the economy if it looks like there's going to be a permanent sub-class of rental wage slaves for life. compare this to the ratio of annual gross or net wages to mortgage carrying costs for a person from the baby-boomer generation buying a house in canada in the 1970s or 1980s.