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House Hansard - 230

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 5, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 230 - Oct/5/23
Mr. Denis Trudel (Longueuil—Saint-Hubert, BQ)
  • Oct/5/23 11:25:36 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-56 
Madam Speaker, I appreciate my colleague's speech and his plea for off-market housing. I think that is the direction we need to take. I would like to ask him a question that is a bit more specific. We have a structural problem. Quebec alone needs 1.1 million housing units by 2030. If we mobilized all of the resources in Quebec, the maximum number of units that construction workers could build per year is 80,000, and that is if all home builders participate. We would need to build 200,000 units in Quebec alone. I do not have the numbers for Canada, but I am sure they must be similar. I agree with my NDP friends that we need an acquisition fund so that we can acquire existing housing, but we also need to find other solutions. Does my colleague have any other solutions to suggest?
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