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House Hansard - 198

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 16, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 198 - May/16/23
Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)
  • May/16/23 2:29:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have a very simple and direct question for the Minister of Housing. I am going to give an example of a single mom with two kids in the city of Toronto, paying the average rent, which is $3,300 a month for a two-bedroom, and earning an average salary, which in Ontario is $62,000 a year. How much money would this single mom with two kids have left over, after paying her rent, to buy groceries for her kids?
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Context: House Hansard - 198 - May/16/23
Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)
  • May/16/23 2:30:56 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the answer is $470. That is not very much. Let us take another example, of a single mom with two kids in Vancouver, earning an average income in the city of Vancouver and paying the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment, which is $3,800 per month. How much money would that single mom have left over? The answer is that she would not have anything left over. That is how serious things are in this country for renters. People are not earning enough to pay their rent, so when will the government understand how serious it is and do something about it?
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