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House Hansard - 43

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 22, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 43 - Mar/22/22
Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)
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Madam Speaker, this motion is about inflation, and I believe the prices of all goods are going up these days. As my colleague said, there is no ignoring the housing crisis. A few weeks ago, Scotiabank, which is not exactly an organization that advocates for more social housing in Canada, published a study indicating that Canada is 1.8 million units short of the G7 average. Five years ago, the federal government launched its big national housing strategy, which included plans to invest $72 billion. Recently, the National Housing Council, which oversees the implementation of the strategy, revealed that only 35,000 units have been built to date, even though we are halfway through the strategy's timeline. We now know that Canada needs another 1.8 million housing units. Does my colleague not think that it might be time to launch a major social housing project in Canada?
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