Mr. Speaker, last week, the Conservative leader announced his plan to shut down housing projects across the country. He is proposing reckless cuts that will devastate housing progress in Canada, including in my own riding of St. Catharines. Even his own MPs are going behind his back to secretly write the housing minister to support the housing accelerator fund and advocate that their communities get the funding their leader wants to cut.
Let us be clear about what is at stake. Reckless Conservative housing cuts could jeopardize up to 750,000 homes over the next decade. By his own math, the Conservative leader wants to build at least 450,000 fewer homes. Canadians cannot afford these cuts to housing.
Conservative MPs need to stand up for their communities and stand up against their leader's reckless housing cuts. We need to build more homes, not fewer. It is painfully obvious that the Conservative leader is not serious about housing.