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House Hansard - 100

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 22, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 100 - Sep/22/22
Mr. Mike Morrice (Kitchener Centre, GP)
  • Sep/22/22 11:09:43 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-31 
Madam Speaker, my congratulations as well to the leader of the official opposition. I understand that he is concerned with the rising cost of housing, particularly for young folks. On that we can agree. However, in his speech, he skipped right over institutional investors, pension funds and real estate investment trusts that are treating the housing market like stocks, making huge profits on the backs of young people and other low-income folks for whom he says he wants to stand up. Does he agree that homes should be places where people live and not treated as commodities in which that folks trade? Is he not also concerned that there is nothing in the bill to address that, like removing preferential tax treatment for real estate investment trusts?
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Context: House Hansard - 100 - Sep/22/22
Mrs. Julie Vignola
  • Sep/22/22 11:56:18 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-31 
Madam Speaker, yes, this is certainly good news, but it is temporary. Perhaps some will say that I live in a fantasy world, but, in my mind, the government's goal and our objective in this Parliament should be to protect the dignity of the most vulnerable in our society, and not just to win the next election, but really for the long term. This program is nothing more than paltry cheques that amount to temporary band-aids on the gaping wounds that are the insufficient health transfers and the deeply flawed building programs that have been in place since 2016, at least. There is currently a shortage of 600,000 homes. If we had had an adequate supply of housing, prices would not have skyrocketed the way they did.
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Context: House Hansard - 100 - Sep/22/22
Hon. Gudie Hutchings (Minister of Rural Economic Development, Lib.)
  • Sep/22/22 2:51:12 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to talk to my hon. colleague across the way and tell her some things that we are doing. We know that high-speed Internet is a connectivity issue for rural Canadians. Since 2015, we have connected 1.2 million homes. By 2026, we are going to connect another 1.2 million homes. By 2026, we will have 98% of Canada connected to affordable, reliable, high-speed Internet. That is going to help rural Canadians get on par with urban Canadians. It is truly going to help all Canadians.
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