Mr. Speaker, after nine years, the Liberal-NDP government is not worth the cost of housing. The housing minister has allocated $8 billion of taxpayer money to housing programs that have built zero homes, like the failed housing accelerator fund. The only things it has accelerated are tent encampments, rent and headlines like this one: “Priced out of rental market, Midland senior lives in her shed”.
Common-sense Conservatives have a plan. We would cut the GST on all new builds under $1 million. This would save Canadians $40,000 on homes with an $800,000 value. In Ontario, government taxes account for 30% of housing prices. Enough with taxing people into poverty and hopelessness. Our compassionate, common-sense plan would stop the Liberals from forcing people to put up tents as housing. We would axe the tax and start building the homes.