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House Hansard - 305

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 30, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24
Hon. Judy A. Sgro
  • Apr/30/24 12:02:34 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, when we talk about housing and why the housing file is so complex, it is the responsibility of municipalities. It is their job to work with developers to see that housing gets built. For far too long, too many municipalities have put up as many roadblocks as possible against much of this housing. People say that they do not want it in their backyard or that they do not want apartment buildings or condos in their backyard. They want to keep the same kind of community they have always had. It is admirable to want that, but the world is expanding. Immigration is a huge tool for Canada, and we need it to happen, but we need to have housing built. It takes the municipalities to do that.
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Context: House Hansard - 305 - Apr/30/24
Mr. Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe (Lac-Saint-Jean, BQ)
  • Apr/30/24 2:52:51 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the willingness to take in asylum seekers is real. Quebec will be unable to reverse the decline of French if the federal government rows in the opposite direction. Ottawa is responsible for two-thirds of Quebec's temporary immigration through the international mobility program and asylum seekers. The federal government is not fulfilling its responsibilities, whether it is in terms of teaching workers French or taking in asylum seekers. Ottawa is ultimately responsible for the skyrocketing need for French language courses in Quebec, but it is doing nothing. The Liberals keep saying that more needs to be done to protect French, so why are they refusing to do more to accomplish that?
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