Western Standard - August 28, 2023


Poilievre calls for more ‘boots’ than ‘suits’ to fix housing crisis

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Trudeau Polyev
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Episode Stats


Length

47 seconds

Words per minute

223.71

Word count

178

Sentence count

14


Summary

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The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is coming out with a new plan to fix the housing crisis. He wants to bring down the wasteful deficits and mortgage rates, and bring up construction with building bonuses for local governments that speed up permits and fines for those that get in the way so we can build homes you can afford.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Cost of living. You know, we're all hurting right now. As we said, Polyev is coming out. He's talking
00:00:04.520 about the housing. I mean, people are having a heck of a time finding a home. I can't imagine
00:00:08.640 how, what it takes for a young person to get that down payment together, you know, get your credit
00:00:12.820 up to speed. The whole works. I mean, getting in on a house right now, way out of control or renting,
00:00:18.120 of course, the rents are going through the roof. We had a deal in this country when I grew up on
00:00:22.860 this street. You get a job, you get a house by your twenties. That deal is broken. Housing costs
00:00:29.320 have doubled under Trudeau as his deficits drive up mortgage rates and bureaucracy blocks home
00:00:34.580 building. I'll bring down the wasteful deficits and mortgage rates and bring up construction with
00:00:39.980 building bonuses for local governments that speed up permits and fines for those that get in the way
00:00:44.920 so we can build homes you can afford. That's the deal.