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Madam Chair, how high will the Bank of Canada have to increase interest rates in order to return to its inflation target?
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Madam Chair, I am sharing my time with the member for Calgary Midnapore. For the Associate Minister of Finance, how high must the Bank of Canada increase interest rates in 2022 to return inflation to its target rate?
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Madam Chair, how much credibility does the government expect to have on this when it has blown through every single marker of debt-to-GDP, and every other measurement of public debt, since it has come to office?
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Yes, Madam Chair, and the minister will have a chance to ask questions when he gets over to this side of the House, although I doubt he would make it. The question was this: What would the price of carbon have to be on imports to be equivalent to—
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Madam Chair, how many applications under the first-time homebuyer initiative have been funded in 2021?
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Madam Chair, do these estimates contemplate carbon pricing on energy imports?
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Madam Chair, how much federal land has the government released for residential development?
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Madam Chair, is it possible that the minister does not know the answer to that question? I referred to his own city. Perhaps he knows the answer to the question: What is the median house price in the city of Edmonton?
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Madam Chair, what is the median price of a single detached home in the city of Edmonton?
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Madam Chair, does he think that 9,000 out of a 100,000 target is an acceptable metric, or an acceptable mark of success, for a program that the Liberals described as “transformational” on the eve of the 2019 election?
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Madam Chair, the Prime Minister, several times in the last two weeks, has touted that program as part of the government's housing solution. In July 2021, the government had only funded 9,000 out of the 100,000 expected. Could he give us an update on that program, and how many mortgages have been funded under the first-time homebuyer initiative?
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Madam Speaker, I believe it was February 2020 when I asked the member, who was then the parliamentary secretary for small business, about the absence of support for new businesses that had opened their doors either just before or just after the pandemic was declared. In her answer then, she teased the listeners by saying that this was a problem the government was aware of and that we should stay t…
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Mr. Speaker, I hope you will give me just a couple of seconds to first thank the good voters of Calgary Rocky Ridge for returning me to this place where I could table this petition, as well as my campaign volunteers, my team and of course my family who I thank very much for supporting me. The petition I have today is signed by a number of Canadians who draw attention to a refugee crisis in North C…
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