Mr. Speaker, when I was housing minister, rent and mortgage payments were half of what they are now, and there were almost 200,000 of those affordable homes built right across Canada. Now, the Prime Minister wants to bring in a massive tax on home builders with hikes to capital gains. The most pre-eminent economist in Canada, Jack Mintz, reveals that would cost our economy 400,000 jobs and $90 billion.
Where are those 400,000 unemployed Canadians going to be able to get the money to pay their mortgages?