The hon. member for Vancouver East.
François-Philippe Champagne Liberal
This bill has received Royal Assent and is, or will soon become, law.
This is from the published bill.
This enactment authorizes payments to be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the provinces and territories for the purpose of improving housing supply.
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Bill C-26 proposes authorizing $1.7 billion in federal transfers to provinces and territories to boost housing supply. Supporters emphasize flexible, direct funding, while critics argue the legislation lacks necessary transparency, accountability mechanisms, and specific affordability requirements to effectively address the housing crisis.
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Jenny Kwan NDP Vancouver East, BC
Mr. Speaker, I was once actually in government at the provincial level, at a time when the federal Liberal government cancelled the national affordable housing program. What did New Democrats do provincially? We continued to deliver housing in spite of that. When I was elected and became a cabinet minister, what did we do? We actually grew the money from the Province of British Columbia alone, with the private sector, with the non-profit sector, with municipalities and with everybody else who would partner with us, except for the federal government, which walked away.
Guess what. We grew that money from 600 units to 1,200 units and then to 2,000 units, with the same amount of money. Yes, we believe in the market, but what we also believe in is making sure that we drive the market to deliver for the people, especially when it gets a benefit from taxpayers. That is unlike the current Liberal government. What did it do? It gave money hand over fist to the development sector, to the market, and thought that somehow, magically, affordable housing would appear on its own. Guess what. It did not.
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Conservative
Dan Muys Conservative Flamborough—Glanbrook—Brant North, ON
Mr. Speaker, my colleague from British Columbia raises a question about what the outcomes are for $1.7 billion in funding that we are supposed to approve in the House, based on a two-paragraph bill.
Did the hon. member find in any place in the bill, or in what she has read about it, any sort of targets in terms of the housing, whether it is deeply affordable housing or otherwise, that would be built with the $1.7 billion?
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Jenny Kwan NDP Vancouver East, BC
Mr. Speaker, that is precisely the point. There would be no accountability measures. There would be nothing to which one can say that using $1.7 billion of taxpayers' money would generate a specific return for the people in Canada. There would be zero accountability measures and zero targets. There is none of that information whatsoever in the bill.
As I was saying earlier, I was trying to get from the government what exactly the allocation would be and what the formula is that the government used to decide how to divide the money between the provinces and territories. The Liberals could not even give me that. It was after much to-do, when they were desperate to try to get a unanimous consent motion through, that they then came forward with that information.
Guess what. A whole bunch of provinces would be getting only $10 million out of this. That would not address the housing crisis, would it? The government just says, “Trust us. We will fix it.” Oh, will it really?
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker John Nater
There being no further members wishing to speak, pursuant to order made earlier today, it is my duty to interrupt the proceedings and put forthwith every question necessary to dispose of second reading stage of the bill now before the House.
The question is on the motion.
If a member participating in person wishes that the motion be carried or carried on division, or if a member of a recognized party participating in person wishes to request a recorded division, I would invite them to rise and indicate it to the Chair.
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker John Nater
Pursuant to Standing Order 45, the division stands deferred until Wednesday, June 17, at the expiry of the time provided for Oral Questions.
The hon. member for Winnipeg North is rising on a point of order.
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Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Mr. Speaker, I suspect that, if you were to check the House, there would be unanimous consent to adjourn at this time.
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Agreed.
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The Assistant Deputy Speaker John Nater
Accordingly, pursuant to order made on Tuesday, June 9, the House stands adjourned until tomorrow at 2 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).
(The House adjourned at 10:58 p.m.)
The House resumed from June 16 consideration of the motion that Bill C-26, An Act to authorize certain payments to be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purpose of improving housing supply, be read the second time and referred to a committee.
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The Speaker Francis Scarpaleggia
The House will now proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion at second reading stage of Bill C‑26.
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The Speaker Francis Scarpaleggia
I declare the motion carried.
Pursuant to order made on Tuesday, June 16, the bill is deemed referred to a committee of the whole, deemed considered in committee of the whole, deemed reported without amendment, deemed concurred in at report stage and deemed read a third time and passed.
(Bill read the second time, considered in committee of the whole, reported, concurred in, read the third time and passed)