44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 26, 2023 02:00PM
- Apr/26/23 2:18:25 p.m.
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Uqaqtittiji, I cannot name the many indigenous women who have reached out to me, trying to flee from violence. If I did, I would make their already difficult situation even worse. To those who are forced to live with their abusive partners, I say, “I hear you.”
The government needs to hear that these women are forced to live in abusive situations because of the lack of housing, because there are no shelters and because the justice system is not protecting them. The government needs to recognize how failures in investing in indigenous housing leave women living in fear and unable to find safety. I am calling on this government to make much-needed investments now.
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- Apr/26/23 2:20:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the housing crisis is holding Canadians hostage. Young people who dream of having their own home have been relegated to spare bedrooms and homes with roommates because of the sky-high cost of housing. In Canada’s biggest cities, like Toronto and Vancouver, an apartment can go for upwards of $1,300 a month. Even in smaller cities, like London, Halifax, Victoria and Winnipeg, a single room can cost upwards of $1,000 a month.
The Liberals say they have the backs of young people, yet they are making the situation worse. There are many things the federal government could be doing, like tying federal infrastructure funding to cities' getting approvals done faster, requiring high-density residential around transit, getting rid of empty federal buildings in favour of housing, and incentivizing the private sector to build more rentals.
If only the Liberal government understood that the housing situation in Canada is, in fact, a crisis, maybe then the young people of this country would no longer be forced to pay the high price for Liberal failures.
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- Apr/26/23 2:59:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the average Canadian household would have to spend 63% of its pre-tax income to make monthly payments on the average home, something that is mathematically impossible. Some are now having to pay $2,400 to rent a room in a townhouse, not the whole townhouse, but a room, and the privilege of having five or six other roommates with them, after house prices and housing costs have doubled under the Prime Minister.
How did he spend so much to achieve such bad results?
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- Apr/26/23 3:00:17 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after 10 years of a Conservative government's underinvesting in housing if investing at all, we brought forward in 2017 a national housing strategy that has created new opportunities for millions of Canadians to get into homes. We have continued to invest in things like the housing accelerator that works with municipalities to create hundreds of thousands of new homes over the coming years. We are doubling housing creation over the next 10 years with investments like the rapid housing accelerator, with direct supports for homebuyers and with tax-free savings accounts. There is no one silver bullet on this, but we are delivering them all.
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- Apr/26/23 3:01:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, over the past eight years, we have consistently invested in programs and supports for Canadians that have delivered many more opportunities for people, but we know there is more to do. Canadians are free to contrast our multi-layered broad approach on investing in housing with that of the Conservative MPs who got elected in the last election. They promised to give a tax break to landlords who sold their buildings. That was the entirety of the housing plan in the last election from the Conservative Party of Canada. We will continue to have real approaches that work for Canadians.
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- Apr/26/23 3:02:20 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's main criticism against the former Conservative government is that our housing programs were not expensive enough. If only it had been more expensive to taxpayers, then it would have been a better program. Yes, it is true: This Prime Minister is the heavyweight champion of government spending. The problem is he keeps delivering the worst possible results.
House costs have doubled under this Prime Minister and then they are more expensive for the taxpayers who have to fund his incompetent programs at the same time. Why does he not, instead, stop wasting the money and start delivering more houses?
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- Apr/26/23 3:03:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let us look at the results. Under the previous Conservative government, the average mortgage payment on the average home, newly purchased, was $1,400. Now, eight years later, it is $3,200. The Prime Minister has delivered a 100% increase in mortgage costs, all while bringing in an $89-billion taxpayer-funded boondoggle in the housing program. Once again, why will he not end the government waste and get out of the way so we can build affordable housing in this country?
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- Apr/26/23 3:07:44 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, government deficits are driving up interest and mortgage rates on homebuyers, and government gatekeepers are preventing home construction.
We rank second last for housing permit times in all of the OECD, and we have the fewest houses per capita in the G7 even though we have the most land to build on. That is the Prime Minister's record. His solution is to give tens of billions of dollars more to the same municipal gatekeepers in order to block construction again. Why does he not link the infrastructure dollars that the feds give to the cities to the number of houses that actually get built?
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- Apr/26/23 3:09:07 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, when Canadians are forced to live in tents, or spend $2,500 to rent a single room in a townhouse or are stuck in their parents' basement until they are 35 years old, he better believe I am going to fight for more housing. It would be nice if he fought for someone other than himself and his gatekeeper friends.
The Prime Minister's solution is to build up these municipal gatekeeping bureaucracies with federal, deficit-financed tax dollars, which means it will be even slower to get anything built. Why does he not link the number of dollars that cities get for infrastructure to the number of houses they allow to get built?
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- Apr/26/23 3:10:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, actually, I delivered housing costs that were half of what they are right now. Those are the results. Sometimes we have to fight for the people, the common people, and rely on the common sense of the common people to get things done.
Right now, we have the biggest housing bubble in the G7 even though we have the most land per capita to build on. The solution is to incentivize municipalities to speed up permits so that we can build more homes.
Why does the Prime Minister not link the number of dollars cities get for infrastructure to the number of houses they allow to get built, require every federally funded transit station to have housing around it and sell off federal buildings to build homes that people can afford?
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