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Hon. Peter Bethlenfalvy

  • MPP
  • Member of Provincial Parliament
  • Pickering—Uxbridge
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
  • Ontario
  • Suite 213 1550 Kingston Rd. Pickering, ON L1V 1C3
  • tel: 905-509-0336
  • fax: 905-509-0334
  • Peter.Bethlenfalvy@pc.ola.org

  • Government Page
  • Sep/6/22 11:30:00 a.m.

Through you, Mr. Speaker: Thank you to the member opposite for that question. As the member well knows, this government actually acted on the non-resident speculation tax by increasing it from 15% to 20%, and made it province-wide, so that foreign speculators wouldn’t hurt people buying homes in this province.

Now, the member opposite also talks about the vacancy tax, and of course, the vacancy tax is in action right now. In fact, municipalities such as Toronto have the vacancy tax, and other municipalities have asked for the vacancy tax, and we have granted that.

But, Mr. Speaker, what the member opposite is really getting to is that we have a housing supply challenge in this province, and it’s this government that is committed to building 1.5 million houses over the next 10 years, something they didn’t do.

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