Western Standard - May 29, 2024


Poilievre Takes Aim at Trudeau's Record, Accusing Him of Growing Bureaucracy Over Housing


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2 minutes

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149.5543

Word count

302

Sentence count

20


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Learn English with Justin Trudeau. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plan to build 3.9 million new homes by the end of the decade has been stalled for months because it's not ambitious enough. Speaker: Why does the Prime Minister keep sending our money to build bureaucracies that block homes?

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00:00:00.000 Because of the incompetence of this Prime Minister and Liberal City Hall in Toronto,
00:00:05.700 rent there has more than doubled over the last nine years.
00:00:10.040 What's worse is that the Prime Minister's so-called Housing Accelerator Fund
00:00:13.760 has given a half billion dollars to Toronto,
00:00:17.200 and only months later, the politicians in that city
00:00:20.780 hiked up home building taxes by 20%.
00:00:26.540 Now, 30% of all home building costs is government taxes alone.
00:00:31.860 Why does the Prime Minister keep sending our money to build bureaucracies that block homes?
00:00:37.980 The Right Honourable Prime Minister.
00:00:40.580 Mr. Speaker, we see the Conservative leader's hypocrisy on full display.
00:00:45.460 Let's talk about their housing proposal,
00:00:48.100 which the Conservative leader has been delaying debate on for months
00:00:51.460 because he knows it's not ambitious enough.
00:00:53.780 His proposal won't build homes fast enough,
00:00:57.420 doesn't reach enough cities,
00:00:59.100 and creates unnecessary bureaucracy.
00:01:02.300 The Conservative leader would also rip up the 179 Housing Accelerator Agreements
00:01:08.240 and put the GST back on apartment construction.
00:01:12.600 His clear lack of ambition on housing
00:01:14.960 is partly how we ended up here in the first place.
00:01:18.200 Here, here.
00:01:19.200 Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
00:01:21.040 When I was Housing Minister, we built 200,000 homes in one year.
00:01:26.420 The rent was only $900,
00:01:29.400 and mortgage payments were half of what they are today.
00:01:32.260 Fast forward to present.
00:01:33.420 The Prime Minister has given a half billion dollars
00:01:36.780 to Toronto City Hall
00:01:38.300 to jack up new taxes on home building.
00:01:41.900 No wonder that when the President
00:01:43.620 of the Residential Construction Council of Ontario, Richard Lyle,
00:01:46.800 was asked whether the Prime Minister would keep his promise
00:01:49.980 for 3.9 million new homes by the end of the decade,
00:01:53.940 he said, and I quote,
00:01:55.420 no chance.
00:01:56.540 Mr. Speaker, why doesn't he stop funding bureaucracy
00:01:59.020 so that we can get out of the way and build homes?