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Mr. Speaker, Thanks · 24 wordsI would like to start off by recognizing a great event that happened in Oxford County not too long ago, the Woodstock Truck Show.Thanks Claims · 62 wordsIt started out in Woodstock 12 years ago, 1but it has, sadly, moved out to the border with Burford, which falls in Brant County. This group does fantastic work uniting truckers from North America, who come together and raise money for such great causes. This year alone, they have raised almost $150,000 to support the Special Olympics and also WDDS in Woodstock.2Off point Thanks · 4 wordsThese guys deserve respect.Thanks Claims · 13 wordsOur truckers move our goods. They feed our families. They are always there, Off pointThanks · 10 wordsso we want to recognize them for that great accomplishment.Thanks Procedure · 8 wordsToday’s topic of homebuilding is an important one.Procedure Claims · 202 wordsThe government for the last 11 years has been making these big promises, grand announcements and photo ops, saying it is going to start building homes and going to build 500,000 homes in a single year, 3but instead, we have had the opposite. Housing costs have doubled. Mortgage payments have doubled. Rent payments have doubled. The down payment needed for a new home has doubled. A whole generation is now out of the market. There are builders who are not building, sellers who are not selling and buyers who are not buying, and that is taking a great toll on Canadians. Young entrepreneurs and young Canadians have always dreamed of owning a home one day. That is gone. Nine in 10 young folks believe they will never be able to buy a home. They want to have their own home. They want to start a family. We had that in Canada before, where if someone worked hard, played by the rules and had a decent job, they could save money for a down payment, buy a decent home in a good, safe neighbourhood and raise their family with their values. That was the Canadian promise, but we are not seeing that anymore. Positioning · 26 wordsInstead of standing up for Canadians and actually making their lives easier, what do we get from the Liberals? It is the same old same old.Positioning Claims · 175 wordsThe Prime Minister made all these big promises, that this is a new government, that it was going to change things and that it was not like the old government, but if I look across the aisle, I see the exact same ministers and the exact same MPs. They are the same MPs and ministers who caused this housing crisis we have today. The former housing minister caused the immigration crisis, 4Off pointand then he became the housing minister and destroyed the housing industry. Now he is justice minister, and he has destroyed the justice system.Off point The Liberals have caused these crises in our communities. Before someone can even buy a home, they have to survive. Right now, Canadians are working harder and harder but barely getting by.Partly on point They cannot save for that down payment anymore. Heck, they cannot even buy groceries anymore. We have 2.2 million Canadians visiting food banks in a single month, 5which is a record high. One in 10 of them are seniors, 6and one in four of them are young children.7 Anecdote · 13 wordsAs a father, knowing that kids are going to school hungry bothers me.Anecdote Positioning · 9 wordsIt should bother every single member in the chamber.Positioning Reasoning · 25 wordsChildren should be going to school with full stomachs, with food in their bellies, ready to learn to be the leaders of the next generation, Claims · 10 wordsbut thanks to the government, we have seen the opposite.Partly on point Aside · 10 wordsThe Liberals could heckle me. I know they love heckling.AsideOff point Claims · 23 wordsThey get upset when we talk about the facts because it goes against their narrative and what they are selling to the media, Positioning · 13 wordsbut Canadians know.Unearned certainty They see through this nonsense. They are seeing through it.Positioning Claims · 7 wordsThey are seeing that Canadians are struggling.Partly on point Procedure · 17 wordsI can tell the House a few stories from my riding, Oxford, just from this last week.Procedure Claims · 31 wordsThe government said it was going to hand out these food credits. Some people got $18. Some of them got $5, but the government promised them a lot more than that. Promise · 27 wordsOn this side of the House, we will always stand for tax cuts and we would make sure that money goes back in the pockets of Canadians, Vague promisePositioning · 7 wordsbut not how the government does it.Positioning Claims · 186 wordsHere is a story from Dezmond. He says that “life gets harder for young Canadians with families like myself with additional taxes and the increase in cost of living, as an apprentice I’m losing hours for my full time job [and can’t] start a career”. He cannot afford to live in this country. Tiffany is a single mother raising two teenage boys. Her aging parents, who are retired, are sending her $1,000 a month for food and to help with rent money. This is despite her having a job, and at the end of the month, she has $64 left from that $1,000 transfer. That is a story we are hearing right across our country: Parents are now subsidizing their kids’ future.Partly on point This new bureaucracy the Liberals announced would do absolutely nothing to fix the affordability crisis, but it would continue to line the pockets of Liberal insiders. They want to make another bureaucracy, another one, on homebuilding, where they choose the executive, they choose the projects, they choose the dollar amount, they try to hide behind closed doors, and there is a lack of transparency. Positioning · 5 wordsAgain, the rich get richer, PositioningClaims · 7 wordsand average working-class Canadians continue to struggle. Procedure · 4 wordsHere is a coincidence.Procedure Aside · 24 wordsI wonder what one of the biggest real estate asset managers in the country is. Does anyone know what company it is? I wonder.Aside Claims · 13 wordsIt is Brookfield. Surprise, surprise, Brookfield is one of Canada’s largest asset managers. Positioning · 8 wordsI wonder who has connections to that company.Positioning Reasoning · 6 wordsWe have to ask these questions. The ask · 16 wordsWe need transparency in the House. We need to know where the funds would be going. Claims · 18 wordsIt is not fair that Canadians work their butts off, make the sacrifices, stay away from their families— An hon. member: Play by the rules. Arpan Khanna: Procedure · 3 wordsThat’s exactly right.Procedure Claims · 46 wordsThey play by all the rules, Mr. Speaker, yet they are being pushed right to the back. As for the numbers on housing that the Liberals have promised, they are not even meeting those targets. I think they hit 2.1% of the target they themselves set.8 Positioning · 44 wordsIn what occupation or job is failure rewarded like that? They should be held accountable for their failures. Canadians see right through these illusions that the Prime Minister is creating.Unearned certainty Canadians are waking up. The Prime Minister is great for giving large, grand speeches, PositioningProcedure · 5 wordsand I will be honest.Procedure Claims · 17 wordsIn his Davos speech, the Prime Minister said some of the right stuff.9 Some stuff made sense, Reasoning · 26 wordsbut homes cannot be built with empty words, stomachs cannot be filled with empty words, and jobs cannot be created in this country with empty words, Partly on pointClaims · 11 wordsand that is all we are getting with the Liberal government. Procedure · 12 wordsThere is another concern we have when the Liberals talk about homebuilding.Procedure Claims · 28 wordsI am seeing this rural sprawl happening into our farmland. We are seeing our farms being taken away. In Oxford County, that is a big concern for us.Partly on point Positioning · 15 wordsOur farmers are the backbone of Oxford County. They are the backbone of our country.Positioning Claims · 54 wordsThey feed our families.Off point It is a very big concern for me to see some of that farmland being taken away. Once farmland is paved over, it is gone forever.Partly on point In Oxford County, we have class 1 land, which is some of the best farmland in the country. Members talk about a self-reliant country. Reasoning · 21 wordsFood security is a priority. Domestic production, making more, growing more and harvesting more here in Canada, should be a priority.Off point Claims · 27 wordsWhen the Liberals have reckless projects taking away our farmland, that is a problem.Partly on point One of those projects that we hear about is happening in eastern Ontario.Off point Thanks · 22 wordsMy colleague is here today. She has been a great advocate fighting against the Alto train project, another boondoggle waiting to happen.Thanks Claims · 25 wordsThe Liberals are taking away land from our farmers. Our farmers need that land, and they will be here in Parliament to raise their voices.Off point The ask · 28 wordsI really encourage the members across the aisle to please join the Conservatives, to join colleagues like mine from eastern Ontario, who are raising serious concerns about this. Positioning · 7 wordsThe Liberals can talk all they want.Positioning Claims · 84 wordsThe words are not meeting the action. We are not seeing the results. It has been over a year now. They have their majority government.10 They have no excuses. Homelessness should not be going up, but it is, under their watch. Tent cities are popping up everywhere, in Winnipeg too. I was there a few months ago, 14and I met with the mayor. He is seeing a crisis in his community with crime, Partly on pointand he is seeing tent cities. They are raising serious concerns. Positioning · 14 wordsAgain, there is money for the wealthy but nothing for those who are struggling.Positioning Promise · 4 wordsThat has to change. Claims · 107 wordsThat is why Conservatives have always put forward solutions to make sure we can build more homes at an affordable price that all Canadians would be able to purchase. That is why we raised the issue of cutting GST on new homes priced up to $1.3 million, saving the average family $65,000.11 That is a big chunk of change that would help stimulate the economy but also give that first-time homebuyer a chance to get into the market. We have talked about removing the capital gains tax, so investors could invest and those folks who want to buy their first rental property could get into the market. Promise · 18 wordsWe want to create that economic environment where money is coming back to our country, unlike the Liberals. Claims · 50 wordsWe have seen money going down south in the last 11 years. We have talked about incentivizing municipalities, making sure that we could become one of the fastest places to permit. Canada is one of the slowest permitting jurisdictions in the OECD.12 I think we place 63rd out of 67. Positioning · 4 wordsThat is pretty bad.Positioning Claims · 23 wordsWe have the highest housing cost per capita in the G7 and the highest household debt in the G7.13 Those are serious concerns. Promise · 30 wordsConservatives would incentivize municipalities, so if they permitted faster, they would get a bonus when it came to infrastructure funding, as well. We want to get out of the way. The ask · 30 wordsThese reckless red tape regulations that profit only the insiders have to go. Let the builders build. Let our farmers farm.Partly on point Let us not block progress happening in our country. Claims · 39 wordsThat is our Conservative plan, a plan where young Canadians could buy a home, where our seniors could retire in peace, with dignity, and where our workers, when they make that sacrifice, would be able to purchase a home. The ask · 12 wordsLet us stop the bureaucracy. Let us get shovels in the ground. Procedure · 10 wordsWith that, I move: That the House do now adjourn.Procedure
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