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House Hansard - 339

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 19, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Mr. Dan Mazier
  • Sep/19/24 10:15:24 a.m.
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Five houses.
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Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Sep/19/24 11:01:14 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I represent South Okanagan—West Kootenay. I have always said that it is the most beautiful riding in this country and, because of that, people want to live there, and so housing prices are very high. However, average incomes are on the low side, because people work more in the service and agricultural sectors, and so we have kind of big urban housing prices and rural wages. I go to the city planners in my hometown of Penticton and ask what we are doing about increasing the housing market. The Conservatives are saying to just build more houses. The city planners say, “We are building more homes every day in Penticton than we have ever built before in history. ” Yet every day we have fewer affordable homes, because the new homes that are being built are being snapped up by investors rather than by people who need them. The people who need them cannot afford them, and the investors are keeping those prices up. As the member just mentioned, we need more co-ops, more affordable homes that are built specifically for the people who need them, and yet this government is doing precious little to actually fill that need. This is where we have to be concentrating our efforts over the coming years: building affordable homes like we did after the Second World War when we built millions of homes that people could afford. I live in one of them right now. What is this government doing to build affordable homes?
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Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Mr. Kevin Lamoureux
  • Sep/19/24 11:05:23 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I will just focus on the leader of the official opposition who was in the previous Conservative government and, in fact, was minister of housing. While he was minister of housing, he was very successful in building six houses in a country of 30-plus million people. To contrast that to what we have done, we are talking six-digit figures of renovating and building homes, and the numbers continue. We have a very ambitious plan. In fact, if the Conservative Harper regime had had a plan half the size of our plan, the issues we are having today would be nowhere near as severe.
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Context: House Hansard - 339 - Sep/19/24
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Sep/19/24 12:49:05 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, it seems to me, from what I understand, that the Conservative idea for housing is to build more houses. As I said in an earlier intervention, it is a simplistic approach that would not work and is not working. In Penticton, my hometown, we are building more homes every day than we have ever built. There are new big buildings going up with new condos and apartments. Every day in Penticton, according to the housing experts there, we have fewer affordable homes because all those new homes are being built by clearing out affordable homes and creating investment opportunities for investors who can afford them. None of the people needing a home in my hometown can afford these new homes, and the new homes the Conservatives want to build would be unaffordable.
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