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Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
May 15, 2024 09:00AM

Our colleagues know very well that enabling water systems is key to housing and a critical part of the construction process. This budget allows for a system fund of $200 million to $825 million over three years, which is quite substantive.

I’m just wondering if the member will stand with our government to support these endeavours so we can get building going.

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The housing crisis is throughout the province. That includes in my riding of Nickel Belt. As you know, Speaker, there’s a brand new gold mine, Iamgold, that has opened. They’ve started to get some gold out of it. I’m going to the grand opening on Wednesday.

But two years ago, we had the ribbon-cutting for the starting of the mine. The Premier was there at the time, and I told him that the government owns homes, beautiful homes, in Gogama. They closed down where the OPP officers used to live—beautiful homes. The MNR office that they closed—beautiful homes. Those homes should be put up for sale. I’ve asked the ministry to put them up for sale for the last two years, and they have not. Do you think it would be a good idea for those homes, rather than to stay empty—

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