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Lisa MacLeod

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Nepean
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Unit 222/3 250B Greenbank Rd. Nepean, ON K2H 8X4 Lisa.Macleodco@pc.ola.org
  • tel: 613-823-2116
  • fax: 613-823-8284
  • Lisa.Macleodco@pc.ola.org

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  • May/31/23 5:00:00 p.m.
  • Re: Bill 97 

I do appreciate the conversation today. I agree with the member from Newmarket: Really, this is about supply, and it is about building more supply in order to drive prices down. I live in a constituency where there is one of the highest growths of new homes in all of Canada, as has been evidenced by the fact that I have had four different ridings in the past 18 years.

I would like to speak to both the members who spoke on our behalf to talk about those housing starts, because I heard—and I think my ears may be a bit clogged—the member from Kitchener-Waterloo mention that the housing starts were down. Now, if she would drive in Nepean, if she would drive anywhere in Peel, if she would drive anywhere in Vaughan, if she would drive anywhere in the GTA or in the greater Ottawa area, she would see that people from around the world are choosing Ontario as their home, because we are competitive and, as a result of that, prices are going up because we don’t have the supply for housing. But the housing is starting to occur because of this government, because this government has the critical decisions that are required—

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