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Mr. Speaker, indeed today is a very good day for housing in Canada. We are working with all provinces and territories, along with our homebuilding partners, to make housing more affordable and to deliver for Canadians. The funding from the housing supply bill would keep our projects moving, protect Canadian workers and support construction. This is for the months and years ahead. We are investing …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question. We have some good news for New Brunswick. Through Build Canada Homes, we are working with partners to build 1,200 affordable housing units, with the potential to increase this number to 1,500 housing units. These projects are ready to move forward quickly, and nearly half of these units will use modern building methods to speed up construction. Tog…
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Mr. Speaker, we are obviously very concerned about those who are homeless right now or utilizing the programs we put in place: Reaching Home and the unsheltered homelessness and encampments initiative. The unsheltered homelessness and encampments initiative was a two-year program. We have communicated very clearly the transition over to Reaching Home, which will continue for several more years. We…
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Mr. Speaker, the government is focused on making housing more affordable across the board, starting with our first-time homebuyers getting a tax break. Build Canada Homes has almost 9,000 homes now in development in cities across the country. Supportive housing was announced last week in B.C., with 700 homes for those who are at risk of homelessness. We are delivering. We need support from the opp…
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Mr. Speaker, that is what Build Canada Homes is all about. We have a plan to deliver. We are delivering, and the experts are weighing in on this. The Canadian Housing and Renewal Association said it clearly: Build Canada Homes is “an important step toward addressing the housing crisis—building homes at speed and scale, ensuring affordability, and listening to the community housing sector.” We have…
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member for her concern for those most vulnerable. The importance of supportive and transitional housing cannot be understated. It is a best practice, as part of a housing-first initiative, to make sure that people who are at risk of homelessness or are currently homeless have an opportunity to get into housing that has wraparound health and social supports so they can fi…
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moved that Bill C-20, An Act respecting the establishment of Build Canada Homes, be read the second time and referred to a committee. Madam Speaker, the Build Canada Homes act would establish Canada as an affordable housing builder. The Build Canada Homes act is landmark legislation that would establish Build Canada Homes as a Crown corporation with a mandate to deliver affordable housing at scale…
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Madam Speaker, I want to thank the member for her question. We are focused on communities of all shapes and sizes. That is part of Build Canada Homes. The act would enable this new, lean, efficient agency to deliver both large-scale projects with larger communities and cities, and smaller projects in smaller and rural communities. We anticipate it being a measure of the impact within the community…
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Mr. Speaker, we have very exciting news in B.C. The Build Canada Homes partnership is set to deliver 1,100 new affordable homes. Many of these priority projects are set to break ground this year, including 700 supportive and transitional homes for people who need them the most. I hope that the members opposite will support the Build Canada Homes legislation rather than obstructing and preventing C…
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Madam Speaker, I spoke briefly to the impact we have already had in terms of reducing approval times, red tape and the costs related to both of those with the City of Ottawa. We have an agreement in place with the City of Ottawa to build about 3,000 homes. The homes will be expedited through the city's system and that is a good example of how Build Canada Homes, by bringing new tools to the table,…
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Madam Speaker, I thank the member for his concerns. First and foremost, to speak to the challenge that young Canadians face with housing, that is clearly a focus of Build Canada Homes: to ensure we are building affordable homes for the next generation. Many of us who sit in the House have children or grandchildren and have great concerns about the escalation of homebuilding costs and the price of …
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Mr. Speaker, we have a plan to attack affordability across this country; it starts with housing, but it certainly extends to tax breaks, as we saw in recent weeks with respect to groceries. There was also a tax break for 22 million Canadians last year. We are delivering on affordability. We are focused on a first-time homebuyers' tax break of up to $50,000 and on building affordable homes for youn…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question. The Quebec tramway has an investment of $1.44 billion from the federal government, and we continue to invest significantly in public transit across the country through the Canada public transit fund, as well as the build communities strong fund, where there is tens of billions of dollars available to allocate towards transit if the House supports t…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for her concern about the challenges for co-op housing. Co-op housing is a key priority within Build Canada Homes. We will ensure that a significant portion of the Build Canada Homes funding will be targeted for stabilizing and investing in new co-op housing. As someone who has co-op housing in my riding, the most in B.C., I obviously want to make sure my constituen…
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Mr. Speaker, the member opposite should study the facts. The price of housing across the country is coming down. Average rents are coming down. Mortgage rates have come down. Our plan is working to deliver on affordability. We saw solid housing starts in this last year. We are focused on delivering that affordability with all types of housing across the country, in partnership with communities, pr…
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Mr. Speaker, it is puzzling to hear the Conservatives saying anything about affordable housing when they have never done anything historically to support it. We have a $13-billion Build Canada Homes agency coming through and taking action, delivering with provinces, territories and cities across the country. Last week, we announced 750 homes for Nunavut, which has the biggest housing challenge in …
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his commitment to delivering for Canadians. In just 100 days, Build Canada Homes has hit the ground running, delivering real—
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First and foremost, Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the member for his commitment to delivering for Canadians. In just 100 days, Build Canada Homes has hit the ground running, delivering real results in dealing with Canada's housing crisis. We have signed major agreements with provinces, territories and cities. We have advanced six major federal land projects. We have lined up thousands of affo…
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Mr. Speaker, this government is committed to the most aggressive investment in affordable housing in Canadian history. That starts with the first-time homebuyers' tax break of $50,000. The members opposite stalled it all through last year. We are bringing that forward and delivering it for young Canadians. We have $13 billion in this budget to deliver for Build Canada Homes, making sure we are bui…
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Mr. Speaker, I would invite that member to speak with folks on the ground in his home province of Manitoba. We are working with the Government of Manitoba to deliver affordable housing for young Canadians in Manitoba. These are unprecedented investments, through build Canada homes, on federal land. We are working with Canada Lands Company to make sure we are building and that we are giving jobs to…
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Mr. Speaker, instead of slagging generations, the Conservatives should make generational investments with this side of the House. We are focused on delivering for young Canadians. The members on the other side of the House delayed, all through the fall and into the winter, the first-time homebuyer tax break. On this side of the House, we have been pushing to do this. The Conservatives also did not…
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Mr. Speaker, I will say that members on this side, the young Canadians who represent their ridings here in the House, certainly speak to me about their priorities. They are here taking action to deliver for their fellow young Canadians. We have the first-time homebuyer tax break coming through, which will deliver up to $50,000 to young Canadians for their first home purchase. We are seeing positiv…
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Mr. Speaker, the good news is that we have Build Canada Homes starting up, a one-stop shop for affordable housing, delivering housing for young Canadians in particular. The opposition can support affordable housing. It has never done it before, but it can start now. It can start helping this government deliver affordability, whether that is new homes through Build Canada Homes or bringing down ren…
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Mr. Speaker, it starts with first-time homebuyers and not obstructing bills that will deliver relief and affordability for young Canadians. That is number one. Number two, we have record annual construction in Calgary, in Montreal, in Edmonton and in Ottawa. We have housing starts that were solid last year, the fifth-best year in Canadian history. We will continue to build on that work with Build …
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Mr. Speaker, the good news is that our government has brought forward the first-time homebuyers' GST break, which is up to $50,000 off their first home purchase for young Canadians. This is a new measure. It was stalled in the fall session by the opposition, unfortunately. We are ready to bring this forward. We are ready to deliver affordability for young Canadians.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Terrebonne for her question. Our government and the Government of Quebec have signed a Build Canada Homes agreement to accelerate housing construction and ensure that Quebec's priorities are met. What is more, under the agreement on the Canada housing infrastructure fund, nearly $1 billion will be used to modernize the infrastructure needed to develop new housin…
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Mr. Speaker, I have some good news to share with the House. On Monday, the Prime Minister and Mayor Sutcliffe announced a new partnership with the City of Ottawa for 3,000 mixed-income and affordable homes that will be built across the city. Through this joint investment, the City of Ottawa will fast-track the construction of 2,000 units of mixed-income and affordable housing on federal lands. Bui…
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Mr. Speaker, it is rich to hear this from the party that has stalled the first-time homebuyers' GST cut since June. That is five months that the Conservatives have been stalling up to $50,000 for first-time homebuyers so they can afford their first home. It was on the floor of the House starting in June; they have been delaying it. If you want to deliver affordability for young Canadians, put your…
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Mr. Speaker, the PBO report assumes that none of the current affordable housing programs continue. That is what would happen if the Conservative Party were in government. It has never delivered on affordable housing before, and it never will again. We are already working with provincial and territorial ministers to put together the next generation of the national housing strategy. It is a team Can…
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Mr. Speaker, if the member opposite took the time to actually read the report, he would discover that the Parliamentary Budget Officer stated this will build 86,000 affordable homes across Canada. This is the initial investment. I know it is hard for the Conservatives to understand. We are going in phases here. The initial phase is $13 billion, which they voted against in the budget. They are doin…
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Mr. Speaker, we had a lot of engagement with the homebuilding industry, with mayors and with ministers. We have put in an enormous amount of effort. Members opposite can go out and talk to people in the community and home builders we are working with who are supporting Build Canada Homes. We have just launched and opened the portal for that. The Parliamentary Budget Officer says 87,000 homes will …
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Mr. Speaker, we obviously face challenges in Ontario, in the GTA in particular, around housing starts. That is exactly why we got Build Canada Homes launched. That is exactly why we are investing in affordable housing at an unprecedented scale. That is exactly why we brought forward the first-time homebuyers' GST tax cut, which members opposite have stalled since June. We need to take action. We a…
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Mr. Speaker, it is rich for the Leader of the Opposition to speak about this. As we all know, when he was the housing minister and I was the mayor of Vancouver, he built six homes as the housing minister. That is a deplorable record. It is deplorable that the members opposite will not support a budget that has $13 billion for affordable housing, which the Parliamentary Budget Officer states will b…
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Mr. Speaker, this side of the House has proposed a budget that has unprecedented investment in affordable housing. The Conservative side of the House has an opportunity to support a $13-billion investment in affordable housing. Conservatives have dragged on the first-time homebuyers tax break on GST since June. That was an opportunity to save first-time homebuyers money. We are giving them opportu…
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Mr. Speaker, the good news is that the price of housing is actually coming down. We can see in the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report in October that average rents are down across Canada, the average price of housing is down, mortgage rates are down and housing starts are up. This side of the House is doing something about housing affordability; that side of the House is voting against it.
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Mr. Speaker, it is hypocrisy to hear this from the Conservatives. All of a sudden they are concerned about affordable housing. Building starts are up across Canada this year versus last year. If we look at year to year, we are moving up. We are investing $13 billion in Build Canada Homes, which is focused on non-market housing and market housing that leverages it. We are getting no support from th…
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Mr. Speaker, if the Leader of the Opposition and the Conservatives actually cared about affordable housing, they would have voted for a budget with $13 billion for affordable housing. They could have voted for $1 billion to fight homelessness and build supportive housing. The Conservatives have stalled the first-time homebuyers' GST break since June. They have no credibility on affordable housing.
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Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is standing up today for workers across Canada and for building affordable housing across Canada with BC Wood. He is standing up to reduce transportation costs across the country so BC Wood can build homes across Canada and to bring steel from central Canada to the east and west more affordably. The Prime Minister is standing up for Canadians today and we stand with…
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Mr. Speaker, our government is making generational investments in building the homes that Canadians need right now, and this month, Build Canada Homes took a major step in the redevelopment of sites for accelerating affordable housing in Winnipeg, in Ottawa and in Edmonton. This will add nearly 1,800 affordable homes across Canada, the housing that Canadians need. Will the Conservatives in the mea…
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Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Scarborough—Woburn for all of his hard work. We are committed to delivering a massive increase in affordable housing, starting in the GTA and all across Canada. Just last week, we made generational investments across the country to create more than 3,000 homes across Canada for Canadians, and that includes over 1,500 much-needed homes in Ontario. Those h…
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Mr. Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition is ignoring the year-to-date results. He is looking at month to month. He is twisting the facts. He is getting confused with the numbers. Conservatives have a tough time with numbers sometimes; we understand that. Year to date, 2025 versus 2024, we are up 5% with housing starts.
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Mr. Speaker, Canadians elected the new government to deliver on affordable homes and strong, connected communities, and I have good news for my colleague from B.C.: Budget 2025 answers the call with historic investments.
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Mr. Speaker, I have good news for my colleague from B.C.: Budget 2025 answers the call with historic investments in affordable homes that will make a difference in people's lives, and investments in improving our roads, our transit, our public infrastructure and our community centres, hospitals and schools. With Build Canada Homes, we are closing urgent gaps and building at an unprecedented scale …
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Mr. Speaker, the real question is, will the Conservatives support the most aggressive housing budget in Canadian history? The government is proposing the biggest investment in our history in affordable housing, putting Canadians to work to build the affordable housing we need. We are seeing unprecedented levels of housing starts. We are seeing progress in housing right now, and we are doubling up …
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Mr. Speaker, we know housing is top of mind for young Canadians, and we have heard them loud and clear. Budget 2025 delivers on affordable housing for young Canadians. It focuses on affordable housing and co-ops. It delivers on GST for first-time homebuyers. Up to 47,000 homes will see a big reduction in GST. Building all of these homes creates jobs for young people in the trades, great jobs for y…
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Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question. Canadians need strong and resilient communities. Budget 2025 makes a generational investment in our communities with the build communities strong fund, which will support infrastructure that promotes access to housing, such as roads, drinking water, waste water treatment, health infrastructure such as hospitals, and much more.
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Mr. Speaker, the new government has a very credible plan for building affordable housing. We are focused on delivering that affordable housing, with $13 billion being committed to it in the new budget. We hope the Conservatives will support this, if they care about affordable housing. However, they have voted against every affordable housing measure for 10 years now. I do not expect a lot from the…
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Mr. Speaker, this government is taking action to make life more affordable for young Canadians. We are delivering on housing. If we look across the country right now, average rents are down, mortgage rates are down and home prices are going down. That is benefiting young Canadians, and we are not stopping there. We are doubling up on housing for young Canadians, making sure the first-time homebuye…
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Mr. Speaker, this government is all-in on supporting affordable housing, and we are focused on homelessness, first and foremost. We are dedicating $1 billion, the first billion in the budget, to solving homelessness. We are working with cities and towns across the country to get supportive modular housing built, which is transitional housing to help people get out of shelters, off the street and i…
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Mr. Speaker, the hypocrisy of Conservatives is staggering. It is unbelievable to hear this kind of outrage from Conservatives, who voted against and fought against all of the affordability programs, first and foremost, housing affordability, which they have shown no support for, for decades. We are focused on delivering, and we are seeing results: Average rents are coming down, home prices are com…
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