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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

Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)

Dec/13/23 2:37:08 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have shown a consistent willingness and desire to work with the provinces in areas of their jurisdiction, in co-operative ways, and we are going to continue to, including on the issue of rent control. However, there is not just one way to approach the housing crisis; it is something we are doing on many fronts. It is not just the catalogue; indeed, we are building more apartments and co-ops by removing the GST on construction, and we are eliminating barriers to get more homes built faster by working directly with cities. We are helping Canadians save up for a home with the first home savings account. I know there is more to do, and we are going to continue to work with all governments to take bold action to tackle housing affordability.

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Context: House Hansard - 267 - Dec/13/23

Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)

Dec/13/23 2:54:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have demonstrated time and time again how committed we are to addressing housing gaps in indigenous communities swiftly, effectively and in equal partnership. Since 2016, we have supported the construction and renovation of over 30,000 homes in first nations communities. We launched the $4-billion urban, rural and northern indigenous housing strategy despite the Conservative Party voting to cut this essential funding. We will continue working with partners to codevelop and implement community-based housing solutions.

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Context: House Hansard - 267 - Dec/13/23

Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)

Dec/13/23 3:07:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservative leader has made his thinking clear by stating that the federal government should get out of the business of building affordable housing. However, we will not follow his irresponsible advice. Perhaps that is why last week his party voted against funding to build 71,000 new apartments. It also voted against more than 15,000 new homes for our most vulnerable. As the team showed last week, we will not allow the Conservatives' partisan games to undermine our efforts to provide housing for all.

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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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Context: House Hansard - 267 - Dec/13/23

Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)

Dec/13/23 3:09:54 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, when will the leader of the official opposition understand that voting against the construction of 71,000 new homes through the apartment construction loan program is not going to help anyone and that voting against the construction of 12,000 new affordable homes through the rapid housing initiative will not help Canadians. He chose to play partisan games last week in trying to shut down this House through a MAGA-inspired approach while we continue to stand up for Canadians and deliver on the things they need. While they play partisan games, we will continue to fight for Canadians.

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Context: House Hansard - 267 - Dec/13/23

Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)

Dec/13/23 3:12:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we recognize the challenges Canadians are facing, and on this side of the House, we have chosen to invest to support them: to create new affordable housing, to create new apartments. As much as the Leader of the Opposition loves to rise in this House to talk about Canadians' suffering, he will not rise in this House to support solutions to Canadians' challenges. He rose in the House to vote against 71,000 new rental homes through the apartment construction loan program. He rose in this House to vote against 12,000 new affordable homes through the rapid housing initiative. He likes to instrumentalize Canadians. He will not solve for them.

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