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I am sorry, Madam Speaker, I was just trying to help. Come on. He was having trouble making sense of the motion, so I was going to read it for him, right before him. It says here: review and consolidate all federal real estate and properties in Canada in order to make at least 15% available for residential development; It is not the Parks Canada land. Parks Canada land does not have buildings. The…
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Madam Speaker, why? That is the most basic question anyone asks when something strange happens anywhere in nature. Why is it that a family in Riverside South, a suburban community 25 minutes from here, has been bid out on seeking a house eight times, most recently watching one normal middle-class house go $400,000 over the asking price, from $800,000 to $1.2 million? Why? Why have housing prices g…
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Madam Speaker, I wonder if we might have a messenger service here that I could use to deliver the member the actual motion. I would ask him not to be shy and to come on over. I will read it for him right here. Come back. Do not run away. Come on now, I am going to help you read the motion.
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Mr. Speaker, all the other so-called experts have given up on the term “transitory inflation”, yet the Associate Minister of Finance is trying to resurrect it on the same day we get a report saying that the average family will have to spend another $1,000 just to put nutrients on their kids' tables. We already have the second-worst housing bubble on earth and it is $1.50 a litre for gas. The avera…
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Mr. Speaker, the Liberal inflation tax is now hitting grocery stores. Today, a report shows that the average family will have to spend $15,000 on food. That is a $1,000 increase. Canadians and Canadian families do not have $1,000, especially after real estate inflation and with gas prices at $1.50. Yesterday, the Prime Minister admitted, in English, that there is something called “just inflation”.…
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Madam Speaker, there are 37,000 buildings and many of them are empty. Increasingly, people are working from home. We are paying to heat those buildings and occupy that space. Meanwhile, we cannot house our people. Let us free them up to housing.
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Mr. Chair, does the minister have any idea what it costs for the average person to buy a house in Canada? Does he have any idea, or does he even care?
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Mr. Speaker, speaking of wealthy landlords, I have here the financial stability report from the Bank of Canada, which shows that since the Prime Minister started pumping $400 billion into the financial system, wealthy landlords have seen a 100% increase in mortgage lending they have been able to acquire. Cheap debt for the wealthy investor class, high inflation for the working class. More dollars …
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister got confused when he was asked about this famous middle class he is always talking about. It turned out he said it is those people who live off their income instead of their assets, except that inflation hits folks who live off income the hardest because their paycheque is worth less, while helping those people, like him, who live off ancestral assets. Their assets …
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Mr. Speaker, on October 28, 2020, the finance minister promised Canadians they would have deflation. For the Prime Minister's benefit, that means prices go down. Today the Bank of Canada confirmed that we have inflation. Again, for those who do not think about monetary policy, that means prices go up. Everything the Liberals said would go down is going up and everything they said would go up is no…
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister's response was just incredible. He said even after house prices increased by a third, he did not think about monetary policy; even after gas prices hit $1.60 in some places, he did not think about monetary policy; even as CPI hit a two-decade high, he did not think much about monetary policy, because he only thinks about himself. Will he not admit that what it took …
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Mr. Chair, I will ask one last time. In dollars, how much have house prices risen since the government took office?
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Mr. Chair, could we replace the minister with a cassette tape that we could just hit “play” on?
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Mr. Chair, how affordable are such houses?
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Mr. Chair, if so, how much have house prices increased since the government took office?
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Mr. Chair, did the member support vetoing northern gateway, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, the answer is, no, we will keep importing foreign oil. Did the minister support the Prime Minister's veto of the northern gateway pipeline, yes or no?
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Mr. Chair, will TMX take oil from the member's province to the Saint John refinery?
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Mr. Chair, how many from the United States?
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Mr. Chair, how many from Saudi Arabia?
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Mr. Chair, how many barrels of oil does Canada import from foreign producers every year?
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Mr. Chair, what is the average rental cost for the average Canadian today?
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Mr. Chair, we know the economy collapsed, but somehow real estate prices went up. The question is how much would it cost the average family to afford the average house today?
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Mr. Chair, what would it cost the average person to buy the average house in Canada today?
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Mr. Chair, maybe more specifically, what share of the average Canadians' take-home pay would they have to spend on mortgages and other housing costs in order to live in the average house?
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Mr. Chair, the question was this. Can the average Canadian afford the average house?
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Mr. Chair, can the average Canadian afford the average house?
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Mr. Chair, the question was not how much poorer Canadians are; it was how much more expensive their housing has become. Can the member tell us this? What is the average house price right across Canada today?
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals hand the minister a speech that a bureaucrat wrote for him and he stays glued to it. Why do we not just elect a robot to read off these speeches that are written by bureaucrats in the finance department? That robot at least would stick more tightly to the script than he has. If he does not actually have any answers to the factual questions, is it possible that he could be r…
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Mr. Chair, the question was this. How much have house prices inflated in the last year?
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Mr. Chair, “land-flation”. How much?
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Mr. Chair, land prices are a global phenomenon. Does the minister realize that the land we have here does not come from the rest of the globe? It is already here.
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Mr. Chair, what is the inflation rate for the price of land in the last year?
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Mr. Chair, one last time, FINTRAC, which is responsible for monitoring monies that are misappropriated, organized crime and money laundering, indicated that many people have received the CERB even though they do not even live in Canada. I am going to ask one last time: How many was that?
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Mr. Chair, can the officials who are here today hand the minister a new script? He seems to be reading one unrelated to the questions.
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Mr. Chair, is there a technological advance that might help the minister answer the question?
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Mr. Chair, who will pay for the fraudulent CERB recipients?
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Mr. Chair, did the minister just say nine million people not living in Canada got the CERB?
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Mr. Chair, I think the problem is he is not hearing me. The question was about the CERB. FINTRAC says that people who do not even live in Canada were getting the CERB. How many of them got it?
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Mr. Chair, the question was about the CERB, not the wage subsidy. How many people not in Canada got the CERB?
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Mr. Chair, I am glad to know that the minister does not think housing or debt are matters of substance. Back to the CERB fraud. How many people not in Canada got the CERB?
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Mr. Chair, the member bragged about the CERB. According to the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, reporting entities indicated that clients have applied for and received CERB despite not living in Canada and appeared to be residing in a jurisdiction of concern. How many people not living in Canada got the CERB?
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Mr. Chair, I think there is a problem with the audio in the chamber. The question was, what is the average cost of a house in Canada today?
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Mr. Chair, what would they pay for the average house?
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Mr. Chair, I asked for just the average house price.
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Mr. Chair, what is the average increase in house prices since the government took office in 2015?
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