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House Hansard - 105

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 29, 2022 10:00AM
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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