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House Hansard - 222

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 21, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 222 - Sep/21/23
Hon. Sean Fraser (Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, Lib.)
  • Sep/21/23 2:23:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is fascinating that, after we started talking about housing, the hon. member put forward a plan that tinkers around the edges, which experts have indicated demonstrates a lack of understanding of the urgency and scale of Canada's housing crisis. For example, we have advanced a measure that would get rid of GST on apartment construction. He has now made a commitment to put it back on for middle-class homes. He has made a commitment to cut the program that is now changing the way that cities build homes in London and Calgary and will impact many cities across the country. We will advance policies that make a difference, not just hang something in the window and be a pretender as he is.
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Context: House Hansard - 222 - Sep/21/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Sep/21/23 2:24:05 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what my plan on GST would do is make sure we do not give tax breaks for $10 million penthouse apartments, as that member is proposing to do. We want the builders who qualify for it to have affordable apartment rentals so that Canadians could actually live in them. God forbid, the limousine Liberals want all the money to go to the penthouse apartments. As for the minister's program, $4 billion and a year and a half later, it has not built a single, solitary house, and it has only promised 2,000 homes; he would need 1,500 of those announcements to get to the number we need. Why will the Liberals not get out of the way so that we can—
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