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House Hansard - 335

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 19, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 335 - Jun/19/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jun/19/24 2:26:25 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, these are the same promises that he has been making for nine years. Instead of the theoretical utopia that he has promised, what Canadians are living through is hell. There are tent cities popping up across the country in places they never existed before. There are two million people lined up at food banks, with one in 10 Torontonians included in that number. Toronto is a town where, right now, it is impossible for almost anyone to afford a home, and there are 256 tent cities. Why will he not recognize that these are the very real consequences of his policy of wackonomics?
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Context: House Hansard - 335 - Jun/19/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jun/19/24 2:59:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, well, I think we can all agree that the Prime Minister needs better math. However, here is the math. The Altus Group says that Canada's development charges are significantly higher and our wait times for getting building permits are the second-slowest in the entire OECD. What is the Prime Minister doing? He is giving half a billion dollars to the City of Toronto, which has just increased its development charges and its permit wait times by 50%. Once again, why does the Prime Minister keep funding the gatekeepers instead of removing them so we can build the homes?
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Context: House Hansard - 335 - Jun/19/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre
  • Jun/19/24 3:13:31 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, there is nothing cheap about the Prime Minister's spending $220,000 for food alone on a six-day jet-setting tour for himself. All the while, homelessness is up 38%. Toronto has 256 homeless encampments, where one in 10 people in that city are now eating at food banks. They join two million Canadians. The good news is that life was not like this before this Prime Minister, and it will not be like this after he is gone. Can we not have a carbon tax election now to choose a government that would axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime? Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
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