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Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22

Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)

Sep/29/22 10:33:09 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it really is Groundhog Day here in Parliament. It seems as if we are talking about the same issue we discussed last Tuesday. It is true that prices are going up. Let us talk about housing, for example. This week, the Canadian Housing and Renewal Association came to the Hill to meet with us. They told us something pretty interesting that predates the pandemic and the recent increase in inflation. Over the last 10 years in Canada, 600,000 affordable housing units have been lost. These are units the government had paid for, that we had all paid for, and that were relatively affordable. They were moved to the private market. The government boasts about having a national housing strategy in which it is investing $72 billion, supposedly to create affordable housing, but that money has been lost. Private developers are buying up the units and flipping them at higher prices. This is a major crisis that requires major investment. What do the Conservatives have to offer?

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Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22

Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)

Sep/29/22 12:33:15 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, since my Conservative friends have no qualms about moving essentially the same motion today that they moved on Tuesday, I am not going to worry too much about asking essentially the same question that I asked a Conservative member on Tuesday, especially since I did not get an answer to it anyway. In this intense period of fighting climate change, the federal government continues to invest $14 billion in direct and indirect support for fossil fuels. In Quebec, an entire infrastructure is being created to support renewable energy. A company in my riding is working on developing electric engines for aircraft. This is key. We need more of this. The aviation industry emits 3.5% of all greenhouse gases on the planet. We will have to address that eventually. The $14 billion that the government is investing in oil could be invested in new technologies. This would create wealth and jobs and would combat greenhouse gases. Would my colleague not agree?

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Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22

Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)

Sep/29/22 1:07:08 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I agree with my colleague on the fact that the motion being studied today is a bit ideological and populist with respect to inflation. However, we cannot deny that inflation is having a tangible and devastating impact on housing. I want to talk about housing construction projects in Quebec and Canada. These projects were approved by the government under various programs that were launched. At the time that they were approved two or three years ago, the rate of inflation was not what it is today. Now that it is time to start building these housing units, the rate of inflation has exploded and we can no longer move forward because of the labour shortage, even though the government had approved these important projects. In some cases, the government does not want to pay the extra money to open these doors. It is a real problem—

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Context: House Hansard - 105 - Sep/29/22

Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)

Sep/29/22 1:48:24 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, at the start of the summer in my riding, we spent our evenings and weekends working very hard to deliver passports to Quebeckers who wanted to go abroad. I think that was true of most Bloc Québécois members. Those of us in Quebec spent our weekends working very hard to do that. Yesterday we learned that top federal public service executives received $190 million in bonuses. These are the very same individuals who failed to deliver passports to people. MPs' office staff had to do their job for them. Does my colleague think that money would have been better spent increasing old age security, building social housing or upping health transfers?

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