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House Hansard - 8

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 1, 2021 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 8 - Dec/1/21
Mr. Ryan Williams (Bay of Quinte, CPC)
  • Dec/1/21 5:25:46 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I congratulate you on your appointment. It is great to see you in the chair. Congratulations to the member for Nanaimo—Ladysmith. It is fantastic to hear her comments about working together. My question relates to housing, which is a big problem in the Bay of Quinte and, of course, the whole country. It is a problem in every single one of our municipalities and every single one of our regions. On the topic of working together, would the member agree with our plan and working with the Conservatives? The message is that it is a problem of supply right now; it is the biggest problem. We cannot have more cheap cash. We need to make sure that we are working with municipalities, provinces and across all of our regions to ensure that we have more supply built as fast as possible in order to fix this problem once and for all.
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Context: House Hansard - 8 - Dec/1/21
Mr. Ryan Williams (Bay of Quinte, CPC)
  • Dec/1/21 9:32:15 p.m.
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Madam Chair, I agree with the hon. member across the way that we have to work together, because the government has just failed to make this negotiation. We had so much time in the last six years to make this happen. President Biden said in his presidential run that he did want to continue the Trump tariffs on their allies. The U.S. Lumber Coalition last June said that it had not seen Canada come to the table. It said that it wanted to make a deal, but that Canada was not bringing it a deal. We have had all the time. The biggest thing we have in the negotiation is that we have the wood and the U.S. does not. It does not have enough domestic supply to supply its own nation. We have the negotiation tactics. Will the government go back with some harder negotiations to make the deal done for our Canadian softwood industry?
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