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House Hansard - 171

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
March 22, 2023 01:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 171 - Mar/22/23
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • Mar/22/23 2:36:42 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this goes to the heart of the announcement we made last week on the housing accelerator fund, which works directly with municipalities to accelerate the delivery and construction of affordable housing. What the member opposite would have us believe is that doing nothing to address the housing crisis would have somehow made it better. He criticizes us for the investment of billions of dollars in housing over the past years. Just think, if things are expensive now, how much worse it would have been had we had a Conservative government that continued to cross its arms and cut services to Canadians for the past eight years.
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Context: House Hansard - 171 - Mar/22/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Mar/22/23 2:40:28 p.m.
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In other words, Mr. Speaker, we should forgive him for failing because he fails expensively. What we propose is actually to incentivize home building. Why does the government not link the number of federal infrastructure dollars a big city gets to the number of houses that actually get completed? That would incentivize them to get the gatekeepers out of the way. We could bring in penalties for big-city bureaucrats who block construction and boost infrastructure dollars for those who get out of the way. Why will he not pay for results instead of paying for failure?
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