Nguyen reliably advocates for more federal spending, especially in her own riding of Spadina—Harbourfront. She fills her speeches with positive buzzwords and anecdotes about local organizations, but often dodges directly answering questions or providing specifics. While frequently mentioning the importance of major issues like housing and gender-based violence, her statements focus more on cheerleading government actions than on concrete policy details or outcomes.
“Thanks for the nice words about me. We need to give money to some developers so they can build more houses. The government should take the risk, not private companies. I want taxpayers to pay for a big train near my house.”
“When people complain about rural housing, I talk about a northern program instead. That program will spend money. I want to cheer for that program. I want the government to look good. I think more spending will help the country.”
“I'm filling time with kind words and not answering the question about how the rebate works.”
“I'm in favor of Bill C-26. It would spend money from the consolidated revenue fund to make it easier to build more homes. I want more homes built because people in my densely populated riding need them. I think the bill would help by giving $1.7 billion to provinces and territories to help remove barriers to homebuilding. It would also help keep skilled workers employed in construction. The housing crisis won't be solved overnight but this bill is an important step.”
“I'm filling time with kind-sounding words about listening to victims, but I'm not really saying anything that anyone could pin down later.”
“I want to talk about ideas from a meeting. Some people say courts are not always the best way to help women who have been hurt. I think judges should sometimes use other ways.”
“I want people to think our bill will help women. I'm filling time by talking about my trip and feelings. I'm not saying anything new about the bill.”
“I just joined a committee. I have not fixed anything yet. I don't know why we rejected the change you asked about. I think we should keep talking about this problem. Talking is doing something.”
“I want more laws and spending against violence. Laws didn't stop violence before, but we should try again. I'm not explaining why this time will work better.”
“Give the minister a soft question about how great it is to spend money in my riding.”
“Immigration is good. Immigrants help our economy. Canada should welcome them. We must spend money to help refugees and protect people. Our refugee system is important. We need more people to come to Canada. We will spend lots of money to help them. The budget will help refugees. Refugees make Canada strong.”
“I like that the benefit lets the government get more involved. We should spend money to make a national plan for everyone's food.”
“You say my government cut transit funding. But my government is spending money on transit! That project is very exciting and overdue. The federal government should spend money to fix this.”
“I don't know enough to say whether I support runway expansion or not. I want people to think I'm carefully considering it.”
“I'm avoiding the question by giving a long, unrelated answer about an organization in my riding. I want to talk about anything except the subject of the question.”
“We need to spend more money on cities because people are struggling with rising costs. We say we're investing a lot in Toronto. I talk about some projects and places. I say public spaces matter. I mention more projects. I say Toronto needs money to keep its economy going. I say we're spending a lot in the budget. We'll build more stuff.”
