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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
December 6, 2023 09:00AM
  • Dec/6/23 10:50:00 a.m.

I think the questions from the Leader of the Opposition really highlight the dramatic difference between the NDP and the Progressive Conservative government. She calls the historic investments that we’ve made in Windsor a waste of time. She calls the historic investments in Loyalist a waste of time. We have the largest investment probably in Canadian history in St. Thomas—thousands of jobs coming to the province of Ontario.

This is a leader who, in the last election, brought her and her party’s disagreement with the 413, an important piece of infrastructure to support the people of that region—voted against it. The result of that was that the entire caucus that was elected from the NDP was wiped out and Progressive Conservatives replaced them.

We’re going to double down over the next year to improve on all of the things that we’ve brought forward to the province: affordability, infrastructure, jobs, opportunity—a bigger, better, bolder Ontario.

I am excited by the fact that we have 15,000—the highest level of purpose-built rental starts in the history of this province.

But more than that, Mr. Speaker, it is why I am continuously calling in this House for the federal government to come on board with us so that we can put more infrastructure in the ground. The federal government has a $15-billion program across the country right now. That program is estimated to bring about 200,000 homes online; $15 billion worth of infrastructure across this country would build millions of homes.

So I need the member opposite’s support to help us get the federal government to make those investments in infrastructure so that we can build millions of homes, so there are more opportunities for the people of the province of Ontario.

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