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House Hansard - 270

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
January 29, 2024 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 270 - Jan/29/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jan/29/24 2:23:17 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, some two million Canadians are having to turn to food banks. Students are being forced to live in homeless shelters. The cost of housing has doubled in Quebec City and tripled in Montreal. Across Canada, the cost of housing has doubled since this Prime Minister promised to reduce it. Will the Prime Minister finally reverse the policies that are creating more bureaucracy and causing inflation, so that home builders can give Canadians an affordable place to call home?
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Context: House Hansard - 270 - Jan/29/24
Hon. Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Lib.)
Mr. Speaker, our government absolutely understands that housing and the cost of living are challenges for Canadians. That is why we are aggressively working across the country to build more homes faster. The housing accelerator fund, with more than 30 agreements in place across Canada, will lead to 500,000 new homes being built. However, the question is this: What will the Conservatives cut? They know how to cut, but they do not know how to build. Canada needs builders right now.
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Context: House Hansard - 270 - Jan/29/24
Hon. Sean Fraser (Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, Lib.)
  • Jan/29/24 2:46:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the opposition seems interested in drawing on the anxieties that people are experiencing, which are very real, when it comes to housing affordability in this country. However, when we actually look at the plan the Conservatives are putting forward, it is clear they have no idea what they are talking about. Where we are reducing taxes for home builders, they want to put taxes back on. Where we are making investments to promote affordable housing, they plan on making cuts. In fact, the Conservatives want to do away with the housing accelerator fund, which has now created 30 agreements that will see half a million homes added over the next decade. We will build the homes; they would make the cuts. Canadians can make their choice.
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Context: House Hansard - 270 - Jan/29/24
Ms. Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)
  • Jan/29/24 2:46:39 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, those are photo ops the minister is talking about. Home construction was down 7% last year. That is even worse than his nameless predecessor, who was fired from the gig. People cannot live in a photo op. The videos will not bring warmth to the 300,000 people without homes. His tweets will not help the single mom who is trying to make her mortgage payment next month. His press conferences will not help the thousands of young people trying to move out of their parents' basements. Why will the minister not stop subsidizing the bureaucracy that is blocking construction to focus on getting builders with shovels in the ground?
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Context: House Hansard - 270 - Jan/29/24
Hon. Sean Fraser (Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, Lib.)
  • Jan/29/24 2:47:20 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what the Conservatives dismiss as photo ops are binding agreements with cities that have led them to already change their rules to get more homes built. What they dismiss as press conferences included a new measure this morning that is going to extend low-cost loans to colleges, universities and builders to help those young people find a home and free up supply in communities. If the Conservatives are concerned with housing stats as the appropriate metric, I would point out that never once when the opposition leader was the housing minister did he get as many homes built as we did last year.
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