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House Hansard - 267

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 13, 2023 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 267 - Dec/13/23
Ms. Jenny Kwan (Vancouver East, NDP)
  • Dec/13/23 2:36:31 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, people in Halifax are having to live in fishing tents this winter because of the lack of affordable homes. Just last week, the cut-and-gut Conservatives voted no to funding community housing, and the out-of-touch Liberals keep delaying critical funding to build affordable homes. The housing minister says he wants to draw inspiration from what Canada did in wartime to fix the housing crisis. A catalogue is not going to cut it. Part of the effort involves a national rent control initiative. Will the Prime Minister bring forward rent control to curb sky-high rent?
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Context: House Hansard - 267 - Dec/13/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/13/23 3:06:14 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years, this Prime Minister is not worth the cost of housing. According to the Bank of Canada, housing is the least affordable it has been in 41 years. He has doubled the price of rent across the country. Now, renting a single room in a shared apartment costs more than it did for the entire apartment when the Prime Minister first took office. Evictions in Quebec have increased by 132%. That is the main cause of homelessness. Will the Prime Minister finally reverse the policies that create bloated bureaucracy and drive up inflation, both of which cause homelessness in Quebec?
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Context: House Hansard - 267 - Dec/13/23
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Dec/13/23 3:09:11 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, he is doing the same thing he has done for eight years. He spent $87 billion on housing affordability to double housing costs. We have fewer homes per capita than we did when he took office, the fewest homes of any country in the G7. He doubled the rent, doubled mortgage payments and doubled the needed down payment to the point where the Bank of Canada reports this week that Canada has the worst housing affordability in 41 years, and rentals.ca reveals that it is now more expensive to rent one room in a shared apartment than it was eight years ago to rent the entire apartment for oneself. When will he realize that ballooning inflation and the bureaucracy does not build homes?
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