Western Standard - September 18, 2023


Poilievre questions Trudeau on Canada housing issues

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3 minutes

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147.37

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589

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36


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Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech on the need for more housing in Canada, and why he should go back to the drawing board on his plan to get more homes built, and what it will take to get them built.

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00:00:00.000 Mr. Speaker, after the summer that these Liberals have had, even the Prime Minister must admit that he's not worth the cost.
00:00:08.760 Eight years after he promised to make housing more affordable, he doubled the cost, doubled the rent, doubled mortgage payments, doubled the needed down payment.
00:00:16.880 Then he said housing is not his job, and then he panicked when he plummeted in the polls and recycled promises that he'd broken six years earlier.
00:00:25.640 Mr. Speaker, it took him eight years to cause this housing hell. How long will it take to fix it?
00:00:31.740 The right Honourable Prime Minister.
00:00:34.380 Mr. Speaker, we said we'd work with municipalities to get housing built faster, and that's exactly what we're doing right across the country, including, for example, with the City of London,
00:00:43.300 where we've got a deal done that fast-tracks the creation of over 2,000 additional housing units over the next three years, builds thousands more in the years to come.
00:00:52.580 We're doing this by cutting red tape, fixing outdated zoning policies, and building more homes faster.
00:00:59.300 This is our first deal, but I promise, not the last.
00:01:02.780 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:01:06.740 Mr. Speaker, he's building bureaucracy, not building homes.
00:01:11.100 In fact, his inflationary deficits drive up interest rates, according to former Liberal Finance Minister John Manley.
00:01:18.580 And that ensures that it's harder not only to buy homes, but to build them.
00:01:24.340 Today, we got the devastating news that not only are we not increasing home building,
00:01:29.100 home building was down in August, 18 months after his so-called accelerator was brought into place.
00:01:36.400 But when will the Prime Minister realize that he's not worth the cost, get out of the way, and build homes, not bureaucracy?
00:01:42.900 Mr. Speaker, the Opposition Leader's bickering won't help get houses built.
00:01:50.620 Our plan does.
00:01:52.140 The Minister of Housing wrote the Mayor of Calgary, offering to partner with the City
00:01:56.320 if they made necessary changes for more affordable housing.
00:02:00.160 And just this Saturday, the City of Calgary approved a plan for reducing zoning red tape
00:02:05.240 and building housing by public transit.
00:02:07.660 This is a step in the right direction, and we know together we can build more apartments for students to rent
00:02:12.780 and more homes for families to grow in.
00:02:16.660 The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:02:19.940 Mr. Speaker, all he has delivered is an economy that built fewer homes last year than were built in 1972.
00:02:28.760 And this year, housing construction is expected to drop further by 32%.
00:02:37.160 Data from August showed that home building was down again.
00:02:42.040 His inflationary deficits drive up interest rates, which make it harder for builders to finance their construction
00:02:47.100 and harder for Canadians to afford a mortgage.
00:02:49.860 So what will he finally do what he promised to do eight years ago,
00:02:52.940 and that is balance the budget to bring down interest rates and inflation.
00:02:56.940 The Right Honourable Prime Minister.
00:03:01.680 We're focused on delivering real results, while the leader opposite is focused on empty slogans and picking fights.
00:03:08.120 In fact, when he was in charge of housing, he bungled projects like the Toronto Line 1 extension,
00:03:13.960 which to this day has no housing near a number of its stations.
00:03:18.560 In contrast, we are actually linking public transit dollars to apartments and housing density,
00:03:24.120 and we're doing so without the Conservative plan to restrict access to abortion,
00:03:29.560 to deny the impact of climate change, and put more assault weapons in our streets.
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