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Context: House Hansard - 183 - Apr/24/23

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

Apr/24/23 12:13:08 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-47

Madam Speaker, as usual, my colleague's delight over his government's budget is patently obvious. However, on one topic he was silent, and I know why. Of the budget's 250 pages, only one page addresses the housing crisis. That in itself is completely unacceptable. In the week after the budget was tabled, the National Housing Council, the body created by the federal government to oversee its grand national housing strategy, brought up a very interesting point. Between 2011 and 2021, Canada lost 550,000 affordable housing units. Not only has the government failed to create new housing, but we lost 550,000 units in the span of 10 years. The National Housing Council has suggested a highly practical solution, which is to create an acquisition fund to enable non-profit housing organizations to purchase private housing stock, take it off the private market and make it permanently affordable. It is a solution that everyone is talking about. Does my colleague think it is a good solution?

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Context: House Hansard - 183 - Apr/24/23

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

Apr/24/23 1:05:25 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-47

Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech. She spoke a lot about climate change. It is true that the government is making a lot of direct and indirect investments in the budget to help oil companies greenwash their record. The government is giving them money for carbon capture, a technology that is very controversial in the field. As we have said, there is almost nothing for housing, but the government is giving oil companies money. Let us talk about oil companies' profits in 2022. Exxon Mobil made $56 billion in profit, Shell made $40 billion, TotalEnergies made $36 billion, Chevron made $36 billion and BP made $27 billion. How can the government give money to these oil companies, which made a combined total of $200 billion in 2022, while completely forgetting about the housing crisis?

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Context: House Hansard - 183 - Apr/24/23

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

Apr/24/23 1:34:59 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-47

Madam Speaker, my colleague talked a little bit about housing, and I thank him for that, because it is a pretty important topic. Unfortunately, when we listen to the Conservatives, it is not really clear what their solutions are and what they are going to do about it. The Liberals are terrible, and they are getting nowhere. My colleague bragged earlier about $70 billion in investments over the last five years. In the last five years, 35,000 new social housing units have been built in Canada through this strategy. I have no idea where the billions of dollars went. According to studies by CIBC and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, or CMHC, Canada needs to build 3.5 million units in the next 10 years if we are going to address the twin issues of affordability and accessibility. If we want to help those most in need in this country, the government needs to intervene and be more effective. What are the Conservative Party's solutions?

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Context: House Hansard - 183 - Apr/24/23

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

Apr/24/23 1:48:57 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-47

Madam Speaker, I have been touring Quebec recently, travelling all over the place to talk about the housing crisis, because I think it is a very serious issue. I have heard from a lot of people. In Joliette, for example, an adult living with an intellectual disability found himself on the street, homeless, in other words, and he ended up committing suicide. There was nothing in the budget to help someone like him. I heard about a woman in Trois-Rivières who is a victim of domestic violence and is now living in her car with her two children. There was nothing in the budget to help her. I heard about a family of 17 people in Longueuil living in a three-bedroom apartment. There was nothing in the budget to help those folks. Does my colleague have any solutions for the issues I just raised and the people I just talked about?

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