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Mr. Speaker, speaking of women's rights, just yesterday, the Prime Minister's former parliamentary secretary, Celina Caesar-Chavannes, came out publicly and said that she was abused, intimidated and mistreated by this Prime Minister, and that he used her for his fake feminist agenda, and that he treated her like garbage. It is terrible the way he exercises hypocrisy: housing hypocrisy by doubling …
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Mr. Speaker, it looks as if the Prime Minister is worried about his personal political security as his MPs are revolting and trying to push him out of the job, so he is desperately trying to change the channel on the questions I have asked. I think that is unfair though. Those MPs helped the Prime Minister double housing costs, double the debt, double gun crime and double food bank use. Why will t…
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Mr. Speaker, he will not release the names, because he knows that he and his party are compromised, and he will not answer my question, because right now 24 of his MPs are rebelling against him. They are asking for a secret ballot to fire him. However, as I say, that is not fair. Every one of those MPs helped the Prime Minister create 1,400 homeless encampments in Ontario. Every one of them voted …
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Mr. Speaker, we would have thought that after the Prime Minister doubled housing costs, doubled the debt, doubled gun crime and now doubled food bank use, the NDP would be pulling its support. After all, its leader said that the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people, yet there he is, still in power. He does not even have the confidence of hi…
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Mr. Speaker, with housing comes security. In Quebec, the cost of housing has doubled. In Montreal, the cost of rent has tripled after nine years of this Prime Minister, who builds bureaucracy, who prints money, who broke the immigration system and who collected taxes from corrupt companies. That is why I proposed a common-sense solution: eliminate the GST on housing. The Prime Minister says he pre…
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Mr. Speaker, it is unfortunate that the Prime Minister is against eliminating the GST on housing, because he is the one who doubled the cost. He did that by breaking the immigration system, by printing 700 billion inflationary dollars, by funding the gatekeepers who block construction and by charging new taxes on home building. He did that to create more bureaucracy in Ottawa, a bureaucracy that d…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada makes everyone a promise. It is a very simple deal. If they work hard, they get decent food and a good home in a safe neighbourhood. It does not matter where someone comes from; if they work hard, that is what they get. However, that promise, like everything else, is broken after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister. He has doubled housing costs. That is why I came forw…
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Mr. Speaker, I propose to cut bureaucracy and taxes. Let us axe the sales tax on new homes, saving up to $50,000 on a new home. That is a savings of almost $2,700 per year in lower mortgage payments. By contrast, the Prime Minister offers a multi-billion dollar housing bureaucracy in Ottawa that his own housing minister admits does not build homes. Why will the Prime Minister not listen to his own…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada made everyone a promise. It is very simple. If people work hard, they can earn a big paycheque so they can afford food and a home in a safe community, no matter where they come from. This Canadian promise, like so many other things, is broken after nine years of this Prime Minister, who has doubled the cost of housing. This week, I proposed eliminating the GST on new home purch…
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Mr. Speaker, I know that the Prime Minister has told his caucus that he is not sleeping. He is pulling his hair out with stress because of his caucus' revolting against him. Now he is spreading tin-hat conspiracy theories rather than answering the question. Eighty per cent of Canadians now believe that home ownership is only for the very rich after the Prime Minister has doubled the cost of housin…
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois leader has literally made no gains for Quebeckers, no gains for seniors, and no gains for farmers. However, he voted nearly 200 times to keep this Prime Minister in power. He voted in favour of $500 billion in inflationary, bureaucratic, and deficit spending. All the while, Quebeckers are impacted by a doubling of housing costs. Will the Prime Minister agree to call…
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Mr. Speaker, nine years after this Prime Minister promised to end chronic homelessness, it has increased by 38%. Fortunately, the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness says that my Conservative plan to scrap the GST on the purchase of housing is, and I quote, smart. If the Prime Minister really wants to fix the housing crisis that he created, will he listen to the people who work to end homelessne…
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Mr. Speaker, he has done precisely the opposite. Since he gave Toronto half a billion dollars, that city hall has jacked up development taxes by 40%. No wonder construction is down 20%. That is probably why Dr. Mike Moffatt, the minister's housing adviser, said it is hard to deny the view that “[t]he housing accelerator fund is turning out to be nothing more than a heist of tax dollars flowing fro…
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Mr. Speaker, speaking of leadership contestants, the member must be so uptight and angry because the polling shows that, though Canadians want to fire the Prime Minister, the housing minister ranks dead last in the polls to replace him. Why would he not? This is the guy who lost track of a million people when he was immigration minister. He ignored warnings from his own department that letting in …
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Mr. Speaker, it is the only rent he has not doubled. Nobody else has to tell the member he is wrong, because he told himself. This is what he said about his own housing accelerator fund: “[T]he housing accelerator fund doesn't [actually] go toward the cost of building houses.... It doesn't actually lead to the construction of specific homes.” He also said, “The housing accelerator fund doesn't dir…
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Mr. Speaker, the sum total of the chaos in our immigration system that happened under the government happened while he was the minister. His own subsequent Liberal successor has now denounced him and blamed him and his policies for the housing shortfall we have today. Now, as housing minister, since he took office, the number of young people who own a home has gone from 47% down to 26% as he build…
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Mr. Speaker, the very angry housing minister has been up all night trying to dream up some snarky comment in response to the very popular announcement that common-sense Conservatives made yesterday to axe the federal sales tax on homes under a million dollars. This is something that his own adviser, Dr. Mike Moffatt, has said is the boldest announcement of any federal party for middle-class home o…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister named the two bureaucracies I would get rid of. One is ironically named the housing infrastructure fund, which is $5 billion. How many houses has it built? Zero. How many pieces of infrastructure has it built? Zero. Can one even apply for money from it? No; it is just for bureaucrats. Then there is the housing accelerator fund, which the Prime Minister's own Liberal…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister took my idea last year to remove the GST from rental housing construction. It is the only thing he has done right, because of course after nine years, he has doubled housing costs. Yesterday I came up with another common-sense idea. Let me quote the Prime Minister's housing adviser, Mike Moffatt: “[The Conservative leader's plan] to eliminate the GST for newly const…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to eliminate the GST on homes valued at less than $1 million. It will save the buyer $25,000 on the purchase of an average home in Quebec. That means $1,300 a year less in mortgage payments. In contrast, the Prime Minister wants to funnel that money into bureaucratic programs that, as his own Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities admitted, will not even build any …
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Mr. Speaker, these are cuts to taxes Canadians pay. We will axe the tax, the sales tax on new homes of under a million dollars. This will save up to $50,000 on a new home or $2,700 in lower mortgage payments every single year. By contrast, in the last three years, the number of young people who have ownership of a home today has fallen by half under the Prime Minister and his incompetent housing m…
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Mr. Speaker, a year ago, the Prime Minister copied and pasted my idea to get rid of the GST on rental housing construction. That is the only thing he did because his other policies have inflated the costs. Yesterday, I suggested eliminating the GST on homes selling for under $1 million, and the Prime Minister's housing adviser, Mike Moffatt, said it was “the boldest middle-class housing proposal r…
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Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Québécois is finally flip-flopping after voting to keep the most centralizing and expansionist Liberal government in history in power 188 times. After two more votes on confidence motions this fall, the Bloc achieved nothing—nothing for seniors and nothing for farmers. I hope that it will finally vote with us to put an end to this government, which is bad for Quebec. Will the…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister just accidentally told the truth. He said he is “accelerating red tape”. He sure is doing that, but he is not accelerating his math lessons. He has always admitted that he is bad with numbers. I have documents from Stats Canada's website, which is part of his government, that show that in 2015, there were 194,461 housing completions and the average rent was only $97…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister, who has a lifelong record of racist outbursts, is now coming unglued on the floor of the House of Commons. The question was about the 24 Liberal MPs in his caucus who are trying to speak out against his quadrupling of the carbon tax, not because they care about the cost of living for their constituents, but because they are worried they are going to lose the electi…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. We now know that his deficit this year will be $7 billion, 20% bigger than his finance minister claimed in the budget only six months ago. Where is the money going? We know that $400 million was directed by Liberal appointees to their own companies in what involved 186 conflicts of interest. N…
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Mr. Speaker, it is because the Prime Minister will not gag me the way he is gagging his 24 Liberal MPs. He has turned our country into a playground for foreign interference. He has unleashed crime and chaos on our streets and corruption inside our government. My question, which he is erratically trying to avoid, is this: Why does he keep covering up the criminal evidence in a $400-million green sl…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister is not worth the human misery that Canadians are suffering. There are now 1,400 homeless encampments in Ontario alone. The City of Toronto admits that it has run out of homeless shelter space and will have to turn people out into the snow throughout the forthcoming winter. There is a Facebook group called the “Dumpster Diving Network”, …
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Mr. Speaker, the problem with that blame game is that in fact the worst homeless encampments are in NDP-governed British Columbia. In fact what the Prime Minister has done is take the radical socialist policies that led to those encampments and those massive overdose crises nationwide. Take, for example, the drug dens. The Prime Minister continues to push taxpayer-funded opioids on the population,…
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Mr. Speaker, the NDP-Liberal government is acting like “a drug lord.” Those are the words of Masha Krupp, a mother who lost her daughter to an overdose. That daughter, Larisa, was given taxpayer-funded opioids. Now her son is addicted to the same government-provided drugs. This radical policy, which the Prime Minister pioneered and expanded with the help of the NDP, has taken thousands of lives. W…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, the cost of housing in Quebec has exploded. In Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean, house prices have risen by $130,000, an increase of 76%. In Trois-Rivières, prices have risen by $190,000, an increase of 122%. In Drummondville, prices have risen by $204,000, an increase of 124%. What is the Prime Minister doing? He has broken our immigration system and p…
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Mr. Speaker, I have already put forward my common-sense plan. It involves incentivizing municipalities to fast-track building permits, reduce red tape, free up land for construction and lower taxes for people who build housing in Canada, while at the same time controlling population growth to keep it from outpacing the growth of our housing supply. That is what a common-sense plan looks like. Will…
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Mr. Speaker, the real experts are the people who build housing. The Quebec home builders' association, the APCHQ, has said that my plan is the best plan for building housing by encouraging construction and incentivizing municipalities to eliminate red tape. In contrast, we are seeing the results of nine years under this Prime Minister. The cost of housing has risen faster here than in any other G7…
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Mr. Speaker, Canada makes every single one of us a promise: If we work hard, we get a good life. That promise, like everything else after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, is broken. Now, he has broken countless promises, but this one is different. This was not his promise to break; it belonged to all of us. Now that he has destroyed immigration, the housing market and the cost of livi…
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Mr. Speaker, today the Bank of Canada had to issue an emergency rate cut to salvage a collapsing economy, an economy that has fallen more in the last five years than that of any other G7 country. Our GDP per capita is smaller today than it was a decade ago, while the American has grown by 18%. The gap between the Canada per person GDP and the U.S. per person GDP is now at its worst in a century, l…
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Mr. Speaker, “brokenist” is not even a word. He is even breaking the English language. Oh my goodness. So, the Prime Minister broke the housing market by doubling the costs. He broke the cost of food by jacking up the carbon tax and increasing prices 36% faster than in the United States. He has broken our immigration system. He is breaking the bank with his doubling of the debt. Even his own caucu…
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Mr. Speaker, we want to cut taxes and housing costs. On that subject, the Prime Minister created a $4-billion so-called housing accelerator that gave hundreds of millions of dollars to big city politicians across the country. Toronto got the money and construction went down 20%. Winnipeg got the money and construction went down 15%. Vancouver got the money and construction went down 19%. Ottawa go…
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Mr. Speaker, even Liberal MPs now know, because their constituents keep telling them, that the carbon tax is driving up the cost of food. The Liberals wanted to go to caucus today and tell the Prime Minister that Canadians are literally starving, some eating out of dumpsters, because of the carbon tax. However, the Prime Minister sent out the immigration minister to attack them, saying that they a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is the Liberal Prime Minister who said a year ago that the federal government has no responsibility for housing. Of course, he said that after he had completed the doubling of housing costs. Then, speaking of housing ministers, he went on to appoint the guy who had lost track of a million people coming into the country, who had allowed a 300% increase in population growth against t…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is admitting that his immigration policies have been totally incompetent. In fact, the ratio of new people to new homes reached its highest level in recorded history last year after his then immigration minister, now housing minister, ignored the warnings of his own department. According to a new Concordia University report, rent is expected to rise to $7,500 in Van…
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Mr. Speaker, there is nothing compassionate about inviting people without a place for them to live or health care for them to have or jobs that provide them with paycheques. The Prime Minister has destroyed our immigration system through his own personal incompetence and destroyed a 150-year common-sense consensus between Liberals and Conservatives on that subject. He cannot fix what he broke on i…
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Mr. Speaker, it is good to know that you and the Prime Minister like to go grocery shopping together. Since you do, you would know that, of course, food prices have risen 36% faster in Canada than they did in the United States in the last four years, and that this gap grew in line with the carbon tax. The leader of the NDP apparently likes to shop at Metro, for which his brother's company is the c…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, costs are up, crime is up, corruption is up and now chaos reigns, because 24 Liberal MPs want the Prime Minister to resign, even though the Bloc Québécois wants to keep this Prime Minister in power. Considering that even Liberal MPs have no confidence in this Prime Minister, will he call an election so that we can fix what he broke?
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of this Prime Minister, costs are up. The cost of housing has doubled. The national debt has doubled. The cost of housing is out of control. Parliament is paralyzed by the corruption that the Prime Minister is trying to hide from Canadians. Now, there are at least 24 Liberal members who are saying that the Prime Minister must resign. Immigration is also out of control…
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Mr. Speaker, I just want to note that I asked my question in French. Twenty-four Liberal MPs acknowledge that this Prime Minister is not worth the cost, the crime, the corruption and now the chaos. Today, in fact, the Prime Minister had to silence half his caucus, forcing some MPs to go to the bathroom so that they could text reporters to let them know what was going on in the caucus meeting. Libe…
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Mr. Speaker, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal Prime Minister, costs are up, taxes are up, crime is up, and, according to 24 Liberal MPs, time is up. The Prime Minister has doubled housing costs, doubled the national debt and given us the worst economy in the G7. He has paralyzed Parliament with a cover-up of corruption, and two million people are lined up at food banks. However, he cannot fix w…
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Mr. Speaker, 24 Liberal MPs went to his caucus meeting today to tell him that he is not worth the crime, cost or corruption. They wanted to tell him that he has doubled housing costs, doubled the national debt and sent two million people to food banks, but he would not let them; he silenced half of the dissidents. In fact, some were intimidated so much that even Rosemary Barton, the Prime Minister…
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Mr. Speaker, I am sorry to have to bring up this terrible rule. It is just that Liberal backbench MPs are coming and talking to all of us to say that they are not allowed to speak to him. They are wondering if I could perhaps pose some questions on their behalf. I guess they cannot get anywhere with the current Prime Minister, so they would rather talk to the future common-sense Conservative prime…
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Mr. Speaker, the reality is that he cannot administer the government because he is too busy fighting for his job after nine years. Even his MPs know it. He broke immigration. He doubled the debt, doubled housing costs, doubled crime and doubled the cost of living in a home. He wants to quadruple the carbon tax that has already forced two million people to a food bank, one in four kids to hunger an…
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Mr. Speaker, there are now about 40 Liberal MPs who agree with what Canadians already know: This Prime Minister is not worth the cost, crime or corruption. Those MPs are telling us that they need the Prime Minister's permission to speak at tomorrow's caucus meeting. He will be able to prevent them from talking about how housing costs have doubled and how the debt, inflation and corruption have dou…
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