44th Parl. 1st Sess.

September 20, 2022 10:00AM

Sep/20/22 2:14:13 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the new Conservative leader will put people first: their retirement, their paycheques, their homes and their country. We need to restore home ownership. Right now— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!

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Mr. Frank Caputo (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, CPC)

Sep/20/22 2:15:01 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the new Conservative leader will put people first: their retirement, their paycheques, their homes and their country. We need to restore the hope of home ownership. Right now, youth and newcomers cannot get a home because local government gatekeepers block housing with heavy fees and long delays for building permits. This leaves us with the fewest houses per capita of any country in the G7, even though we have the most land to build on. A Conservative government would require big cities that want federal infrastructure money to speed up and lower the cost of permits, and to approve affordable housing around all new transit stations so that our young people can live there and not even need to afford a car. We will also sell 15% of the under-utilized 37,000 federal buildings to turn them into housing and use the proceeds to reduce our deficit. In other words, stop printing money and start building homes for people.

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