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House Hansard - 311

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 8, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 311 - May/8/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • May/8/24 2:29:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this is more proof that the Prime Minister is not worth the cost. He tells Canadians they have never had it so good. He doubled the debt, doubled housing costs and forced two million people to a food bank. He brags that he spent $87 billion on housing programs, and what did it get us? It got us the worst housing inflation of any country in the G7, the second worst out of nearly 40 OECD countries. Why does the Prime Minister always spend the most to achieve the worst?
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Context: House Hansard - 311 - May/8/24
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • May/8/24 2:35:49 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, not only are we continuing to move forward on our grocery code of conduct, but we are working on a project to make food more affordable through competition reform. Now, we are creating a national school food program, which is expected to provide meals for more than 400,000 kids a year and save the average family with two children as much as $800 per year on grocery costs. We are also ensuring that the wealthiest pay their fair share. Indeed, there are measures in the House right now that will crack down on predatory pricing, and the NDP has the opportunity to support us as it goes through the House.
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Context: House Hansard - 311 - May/8/24
Right Hon. Justin Trudeau (Prime Minister, Lib.)
  • May/8/24 2:37:06 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we are continuing to make progress on the grocery code of conduct and continuing our efforts to make food more affordable through competition reforms. We are also creating a national school food program, which should provide meals to more than 400,000 children every year and enable an average two-child family to save up to $800 a year in grocery costs. There are also measures in the fall economic statement, which the House is currently studying, to crack down on predatory pricing. The NDP has the power to help us get this passed.
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Context: House Hansard - 311 - May/8/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • May/8/24 2:43:41 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have to do this all over again with him. The Parliamentary Budget Officer produced a report. I am going to read the title so he can google it right now. It is the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report on the distribution of costs and benefits under the carbon pricing program. He can look at page 3, where every single province that has the tax sees middle-class Canadians and 60% of families paying more in tax than they get back in benefits. Why will he not get to know the facts and axe the tax?
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Context: House Hansard - 311 - May/8/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • May/8/24 2:51:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, now he is spending more to deliver fewer homes. It is certainly true that he is spending hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars. He has a new number every year, a new program worth billions more. However, people do not live in the billions and millions of dollars. They live in apartments and houses that now cost twice as much as they did when he took office. Does the Prime Minister finally understand, after spending nine years creating the worst real estate crisis in the G7, that the more he spends, the more it costs?
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Context: House Hansard - 311 - May/8/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • May/8/24 2:52:31 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have already celebrated the fact that our programs would cost a lot less and accomplish a lot more. An apartment would cost $973 a month. Currently it costs nearly $2,000. Average monthly payments would be about 38% of the average paycheque. Currently they amount to nearly 64%. When will the Prime Minister realize that just because his programs are expensive it does not mean that they are good?
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