And counting.

The government is not getting it done on housing. Let’s be perfectly clear: They’re not getting it done on housing—any kind of housing. In fact, this government ignored the vast majority of the recommendations of its own Housing Affordability Task Force. Instead, they wasted two years attacking farmland, attacking green land, enriching their developers and their speculators all along the proposed route of the 413.

So my question to you is, why do you think this government would rather talk about getting it done when it comes to housing and throw out numbers about housing starts that I wish were true instead of actually getting it done? Why don’t they move on housing?

We heard the member talking about price gouging when it comes to gasoline prices, and we heard about price gouging when it comes to groceries—these big corporations. This government is weak in the face of the large corporations when it comes to gouging on the very cost of our groceries. Instead of helping people afford groceries, this government is tripping over themselves to hand corporations like Loblaws inside deals, like the fact that they’re allowing them to charge for MedsCheck.

You’re not getting anything done when it comes to affordability, so don’t say that you are.

My question to you is, how can the government say with a straight face that they’re getting it done on affordability, when people can hardly afford rent—they have no rent control—and when they spent the better part of two years fighting a wage-suppression bill, Bill 124?