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House Hansard - 261

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 4, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 261 - Dec/4/23
Hon. Sean Fraser (Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, Lib.)
  • Dec/4/23 2:22:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is fascinating. For him, it is about how many people are going to watch his Twitter videos. For me, it is about how many people are going to have a roof over their head. The right path forward is going to have Canada make investments in home building, not cuts to home builders. The right investment will reduce taxes on the construction of homes, not put taxes on them. The right path forward will not repeat the mistakes of the past by cutting funding for affordable housing for 30 years, as that hon. member pledges to do. We will make the investments. We will not accept that cuts are the right approach.
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Context: House Hansard - 261 - Dec/4/23
Mr. George Chahal (Calgary Skyview, Lib.)
  • Dec/4/23 3:07:58 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, last week, Dow Chemical announced a multi-billion dollar investment in Alberta. While the Conservative members from Alberta voted against the policies that helped us land this job-creating deal, Liberals still made it happen. If the Conservatives were in power— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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Context: House Hansard - 261 - Dec/4/23
Hon. Jonathan Wilkinson
  • Dec/4/23 3:09:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to once again thank my hon. colleague for his consistent advocacy for Alberta. Any relevant, credible plan must take climate change seriously and look to seize the economic opportunities that can come through a transition to a low-carbon future. Last week, Dow announced it was taking advantage of Canada's carbon capture hydrogen investment tax credit to build the world's first net-zero petrochemical facility. It is an $11-billion investment and will create 8,000 jobs in construction and hundreds thereafter for Fort Saskatchewan, but it is not just the credits that motivated Dow. The Dow CEO said that they invested here because Canada has a price on carbon pollution. While Conservatives have no plan, they do not have a plan for the environment, they do not have a plan for the economy, our plan is working.
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Context: House Hansard - 261 - Dec/4/23
Mr. Branden Leslie
  • Dec/4/23 7:57:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that is exactly what we are doing right now. We want to stand up for the workers, who want to have their voices heard in the face of a government that is trying to put their livelihood not just at risk but out of business. The reason that money is flowing out of this country is the regulatory uncertainty that the Liberal-NDP coalition is imposing on investors. Why on earth would one want to invest in a country where cabinet could just decide, no, that has passed all environmental objectives, so we will just cancel the project? That is why investment is flooding away from this country.
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