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Mr. Chair, again, the member opposite is talking about a B.C. government decision, not a federal government decision, and certainly not one related to the Ministry of Housing and Infrastructure.
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Mr. Chair, the overdose crisis is a terrible tragedy across Canada. Certainly, we felt that from the very beginning of it, a decade ago in Vancouver, when the emergency was declared.
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Mr. Chair, I think Canadians generally agree on the definition of affordable housing as being less than 30% of one's income, but there are certainly more specific affordability targets built into various programs that CMHC and the department have that are very focused on what those programs can deliver.
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Mr. Chair, it is really about the cost of housing, the household operations, relative to household income. That does change depending on the projects and the programs. That is why there are some different definitions depending on the projects or the programs.
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Mr. Chair, it really varies with the application through CMHC. There is quite a range depending on the scale of the project for CMHC.
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Mr. Chair, yes, I am aware of Canada Lands, its different functions and the assets that are held for Canadians.
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Mr. Chair, I am proud of the work that the city did to house thousands of people who were homeless in Vancouver and build social and supportive housing.
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Mr. Chair, homelessness is a huge challenge across the country, and that is why it is a top priority for us to tackle it with affordable housing.
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Mr. Chair, it is important that nobody of any age is forced to be homeless, and the investment needs to be made—
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Mr. Chair, I do not know where the drug policy fits within the estimates for Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada.
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Mr. Chair, again, we are here to focus on budget estimates for the Department of Housing and Infrastructure.
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Mr. Chair, we are here to talk about the actions and the budget of the federal government on affordable housing and infrastructure.
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Mr. Chair, I am here to answer questions about the budget for the federal government on housing and infrastructure, and I welcome questions on that.
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Mr. Chair, again, we are here to talk about the budget estimates for the Department of Housing and Infrastructure, and I welcome the member's questions. It is about $16 billion of taxpayer money that is focused on housing and infrastructure.
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Mr. Chair, I will say that no single elected official is responsible for the prices in the housing market, and the federal government needs to do everything it can to bring the overall cost of housing down across—
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Mr. Chair, again to the member opposite, I am here to talk about the budget estimates for the Department of Housing and Infrastructure. I would remind the member to keep us focused on the budget estimates.
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Mr. Chair, as I have said, homelessness is something that we all need to tackle together. We need to work together at all levels of government to solve this.
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Mr. Chair, sustainable housing policy is focusing on delivering affordable housing across Canada, which I hope the members opposite will support.
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Mr. Chair, I will tell them we are about to make the biggest investment in tackling homelessness that Canada has ever seen, and we hope to have their support.
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Mr. Chair, I do not have the number at my fingertips, but we have to make sure seniors are not at risk of homelessness.
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Mr. Chair, on the MLI select program, I can get the member some detailed information about those questions. I would be happy to do that.
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Mr. Chair, I am not clear on what the member is asking through that question. If he could clarify—
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Mr. Chair, as far as I know, this is not an inflationary program.
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Mr. Chair, CMHC has been very successful in rolling out programs, particularly over the past 12 months, with very expedited funding for affordable housing across Canada.
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Mr. Chair, the plan is to build more affordable housing across Canada than ever before in Canadian history.
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals are very focused on rolling out this plan. We have already delivered a GST cut for first-time homebuyers, and we will continue that work.
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Mr. Chair, “build Canada homes” is not specifically in the infrastructure and housing estimates at this stage.
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Mr. Chair, at this point, we are dealing with the estimates for the current programs that the housing and infrastructure department is putting out.
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Mr. Chair, again, the member should direct those questions to the appropriate minister; they are not related to the department.
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Mr. Speaker, those units remain under development. They will be developed. They will be built. Those homes will be delivered as promised. We would appreciate the support of the other members of the House for all of these housing initiatives going forward, of which we have many. We have the most robust housing agenda in the history of this House. We expect robust support for that plan.
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Mr. Speaker, I will caution the member opposite that there are no wrong places to build housing in Canada. We are focused on building housing across this country. We are focused on building affordable housing across this country. The reason there are new ministers here like me is for our new plan to deliver affordable housing all across Canada in communities that need it.
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Mr. Speaker, we are going to deliver the homes that are put forward in that plan. We are also going to use lands across Canada to build more affordable housing. Our goal is to roll out more affordable housing than this country has ever seen before in the years ahead, and we expect the support of the members opposite. This is going to be a partnership across Canada, on federal lands, with our commu…
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Mr. Speaker, we are focused now, in this new government, on delivering housing. We are going to deliver the housing that Canadians elected us to deliver. We ran on the commitment to have the most aggressive housing plan the country has ever seen, and we are going to deliver on that plan.
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Mr. Chair, first and foremost, governments need to invest in the housing infrastructure, and local governments typically make that investment and recover the cost through development charges. This government is looking at helping those—
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Mr. Chair, development cost charges in Vancouver obviously vary depending on the metro region and the municipality applying those. Typically they are cost recovery for the infrastructure required to build the homes.
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Mr. Chair, I am honoured to be here today. Canada is definitely in a housing crisis, and it has been building over decades.
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Mr. Chair, Canada's housing crisis is definitely related to a lack of supply over many decades and also to the lack of the Government of Canada's being directly involved in building affordable supply.
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Mr. Chair, the overall price of housing needs to come down across Canada. We need to have more affordable housing in this country. We are not talking about intervening in the market to change individual home prices; the market sets those prices. The Government of Canada should be building more affordable housing to bring the overall cost down.
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Mr. Chair, the cost of homes, in terms of housing infrastructure and the infrastructure required to build homes on, varies around the GTA. It varies with the building typology. It varies with the—
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Mr. Chair, I am not sure what the phrase “the cost of government” indicates, but development cost charges need to be covered for the housing infrastructure, and how that is split between governments—
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Mr. Chair, the price of housing is set by the market. What we need to focus on as a government in Canada is affordability and making sure there is a supply of affordable homes.
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Mr. Chair, the cost of the housing infrastructure can affect it, depending on the market across Canada. The market in some markets, such as Toronto and Vancouver, is much higher than the percentage-driven—
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Mr. Chair, we have seen the prices of housing escalate across the country and in many cities around the world. This is a global challenge but one we have to—
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Mr. Chair, I spent 10 years as mayor of Vancouver and a lot of time in homeless shelters and opening homeless shelters—
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Mr. Chair, the Liberals have a big endeavour ahead of us to get to 500,000 housing starts a year, but we are committed to getting there, working with industry and all the provincial and—
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Mr. Chair, for the first seven years of my mayorship, it was a Conservative government that did not invest in affordable housing in Canada and made it very difficult for mayors.
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Mr. Chair, I have the honour of being elected to come here, representing the hard work that happens in cities, to deliver on the federal government's behalf, which is not what Conservative governments in my time were delivering.
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Mr. Chair, we are very focused on rolling out the most ambitious housing plan in Canadian history. “Build Canada homes” will deliver a doubling of construction.
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Mr. Chair, the prices of homes have escalated across Canada, and that is why we need to build a more affordable supply.
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