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House Hansard - 230

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
October 5, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 230 - Oct/5/23
Mr. Sukh Dhaliwal
  • Oct/5/23 10:52:59 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-56 
Madam Speaker, I totally understand how important this $4-billion accelerator fund is to the municipalities, particularly in Surrey—Newton. As I said earlier, the wait-list for the plans and projects is too long. We have to bring it down. We need to have those efforts with Quebec. Similarly, all those efforts are not only needed in Surrey, but they are needed across the country, including in Quebec. The housing minister recently met with Minister Duranceau to pursue the work the hon. member is talking about. We hope that, in the coming months, municipalities, Quebec and the Canadian government will work together, hand in hand, to help municipalities have more housing supply for Quebeckers.
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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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