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Decentralized Democracy

Ontario Assembly

43rd Parl. 1st Sess.
June 5, 2024 09:00AM
  • Jun/5/24 11:50:00 a.m.

Thanks very much, Speaker, to the member from Oakville. Always good to hear from him.

Our housing crisis is only made worse because of the federal carbon tax—and this government has delivered to offset it. We delivered $1 billion in the last provincial budget to enable housing. We delivered $1.2 billion in the Building Faster Fund and are seeing tangible results. We delivered the elimination of the HST on purpose-built rentals. And we delivered unprecedented reductions in red tape to make shovels in the ground happen faster.

Speaker, we are supporting community home builders—unlike the carbon tax coalition opposite, led by Bonnie Crombie. They are not supporting community home builders and frankly, Speaker, they are taxing the dream of home ownership out of the reach of all Canadians.

The cost of living is hurting all Ontarians and hurting Canadians. If the federal government really wants to help Ontarians, I think the carbon tax coalition next door should understand that the carbon tax in this province is wrong, and most importantly, Bonnie Crombie and the coalition is wrong on housing, wrong on the carbon tax and, frankly, wrong for all Ontarians.

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