Affordable Housing and Groceries Act   this situation. Our government indeed wants to put money in the pockets of middle-class Canadians at a time when they need it most. Our whole world is facing, and continues to face, supply chain crises and rising prices around the world, and Canada is no exception to that. Bill C-56

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act   municipalities to get more homes built and punishing municipalities that stand in the way. We know that the cost of red tape and gatekeeping in Vancouver, for instance, now adds over $1 million to the price of a home. It has been revealed that even upper middle-class Canadians can no longer

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act   in. With this bill, we are also moving forward with immediate actions to enhance competition across the Canadian economy, with a focus on the grocery sector. By doing so, we are helping to drive down costs for middle-class Canadians from coast to coast to coast. Bill C-56 includes a set

Housing  Mr. Speaker, I agree with the member opposite that building market housing is not enough, but we must also increase the supply of market housing in the market. We need to encourage the construction of homes for low-income Canadians and for middle-class Canadians. As we move

Affordable Housing and Groceries Act   in groceries and not actually the groceries' being purchased at a higher price every week. This is why we are taking immediate steps to enhance competition across the Canadian economy, with a focus on the grocery sector, to help stabilize costs for middle-class Canadians. Through Bill C-56

Finance   that another hike is likely in July, another cost-of-living hike on top of the carbon tax hike. At what point will the government stop footing middle-class Canadians with the bill for its poor economic and fiscal stewardship?

Carbon Pricing  Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives know that it is actually the contrary. Since we have come into office, we have lowered taxes for middle-class Canadians, and we have increased benefits for low-income Canadians. We have also lowered child poverty by half since we came into office

Finance committee   services were now considered financial services. That gift would be paid retroactively to the banks by middle-class Canadian taxpayers. You'd expect a government to correct that to maintain what's always been its position up to 2021. I understand that there was a two-year period wthehen

Democratic Institutions  Mr. Speaker, my question is to the chair of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. Yesterday, Conservative MPs in the finance committee held the committee hostage, blocking supports to countless middle-class Canadians. Not only is that shameful

Finance committee   of the budget and how great the budget is for Canadians, especially middle-class Canadians and those working very hard to join the middle class.

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1   blue-collar and middle-class Canadians has gone up drastically. I think part of the blame needs to be on the government's shoulders. We have heard again that this is a global issue. Well, at some point in time I think the government needs to reflect on that. Does the member

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1   banks. Food banks across this country are reporting record high usage, the highest in history. We are a G7 country and middle-class Canadians are relying on food banks, so we can imagine how awful life must be for our most vulnerable, including seniors on fixed incomes. Albert from

Housing   is dropping off a statistical cliff and, as a result, fewer homes are being built. Therefore, I will ask this again: When will the government get back to work and let small businesses build the homes that middle-class Canadians need?

Budget Implementation Act, 2023, No. 1   and Halifax, that is the Canada we believe in. Middle-class Canadians need a sense of security. We cannot let that slip away. We should not forget that we are still recovering from an unprecedented time and still have a ways to go before the international economic order finds a steady

Taxation   the AMT. This would result in tax cuts for tens of thousands of middle-class Canadians, while the AMT would more precisely target the very wealthy. Under these reforms, more than 99% of the AMT paid by individual Canadians would be paid by those who earn more than $300,000 per year