What they said. What they meant.

“I want debate to end so we can pass this quickly.”

“I'm spending $1.7 billion of taxpayers' money to get more houses built. Ontario gets some of that money. Home-buyers could save up to $130,000 in tax. Ontario has other ways to save them $70,000 more. We think more subsidies will help even though we have too many houses already. We want the housing market to pick up everywhere.”

“I promise you my new housing agency will not forget rural Canada this time. Northern Canada, especially, needs more housing supply boosted. My new money will go through provinces and territories -- they will decide the details for where it goes. Ontario wants to use its money to remove the HST on home sales. That helps homebuyers and builders in Ontario cities and towns.”

“Conservatives tried to end the House early today. I want people to think they don't care about affordable housing. There was lots of debate already. I won't mention what parts of the bill they might want to study or debate. Bill C-26 gives $1.7 billion to provinces for housing. That's good. We should pass it quickly. Conservatives try to talk for way too long.”

“I want to rush this bill through quickly. People need homes now! This is a huge crisis. But it started 40 years ago. It's not my problem. It's everyone's problem. But my government will fix it. We just need to spend a lot of money. Past governments didn't spend enough. They caused this.”

“The government should spend more on housing. I want to look like I'm helping Canadians.”

“We need Canadians to see us doing something about housing. This bill lets provinces try different things to make housing cheaper by spending money. But government has to do even more things and spend more money on housing.”

“I want to spend money on housing. I don't care about debate or study. Why are you slowing this down? Just give me the money.”

“I want to cheer billions in new spending for an undefined housing bill. Let's not pin down which regions need it most. It's called flexibility! And teaming up -- we'll trust the provinces with a lot of money and no further questions. It's not like political incentives could ever warp where that gets spent.”

“Indigenous housing is someone else's department. But we're spending a lot of public money on it. There's money here, money there, money everywhere. It's all very complicated. But trust us, we're on it.”

“Back when I was in opposition, the Conservatives used to support motions like this to rush bills through. Sometimes they still do. But now they're stalling instead. This bill must pass because it's a very important step that will get the government to spend money we're already spending. And we're doing so in a cooperative way that lets us tell the provinces what to do.”

“I really want this bill to pass. The government must spend money so that provinces can build housing. It's a simple idea and we need it urgently. Team Canada will work together to get it done.”

“I've talked to committees about the government's housing programs lots of times. I'll go again in the future too. This bill will let us spend lots of money on the provinces for housing. It's so simple! If you don't want to spend this money on housing, then you should vote no.”

“Attacking the other party looks better than answering the point. I'm filling time with kind words and saying nothing anyone could pin down later. Let's just pass the bill and give out the money.”

“I want to bait conservatives into saying no, so I can paint them as voting against 'giving people a break'. My bill bribes Ontario with federal cash. If Ontario cuts its sales tax, I want federal taxpayers to pay them back for it.”

“I want to talk about the other party instead of the bill. They aren't doing their job in committee. I don't like them talking about other things. They are just trying to hurt people, not help Canadians. I want the government to be able to deliver on something really popular.”

“I want you to rush this bill through quickly. I promise it will help new homebuyers. The government just needs to approve more spending fast. Look, we spent money in Ontario and more people bought houses! That proves it works.”

“I say nice things about giving money in Ontario. I want everyone to think this plan will build many homes. I don't want to say how many though. I just talk about a market coming alive. I want you to think a more alive market means more homes. I hope most voters won't notice I never said how many actual homes this will build.”