Mr. Speaker, residents in Whitby, like communities across Canada, expect Parliament to pass the budget implementation act. Why? It will deliver the generational investments they have been asking for. That means parties opposite need to stop the procedural delays and stop blocking the affordable housing, health care and housing infrastructure Canadians rely on.
This budget bill would advance the top priorities in my riding: affordable housing, waterfront redevelopment and long-overdue improvements to health care. It would help build the health care infrastructure families need so they can get care closer to home and shorter wait times. In Durham, that would mean real progress on the Whitby Hospital and our hospice in Whitby. Members opposite have already voted against $5 billion in health care infrastructure funding.
The build communities strong fund and Build Canada Homes would help municipalities rapidly increase housing supply. For Whitby, that would unlock over 11,000 new units at our waterfront. I will keep—