Mr. Speaker, Canadians are cutting back as they see their paycheques devalued and prices skyrocket, but it is not just the carbon tax that the NDP and Liberals are hiking. The new tax hikes that the government is announcing today will hit the middle class hard. In the middle of a housing crisis, they are raising taxes on carpenters and roofers. In fact, the Canadian Federation of Apartment Associations said this: “The capital gains increase will discourage the construction of new rental homes for Canadians.”
Why is the government's response to the housing crisis to punish the people who actually build the homes?