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Business of Supply  Madam Chair, that is right. To minimize harm is exactly what we should be doing. That is what we have done throughout the crisis by putting strict measures in place at the borders to protect everyone, including those inside Canada.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, I am going to smile because she mentioned a vaccine advocate. I think there should be more vaccine advocates on the other side of the House, and they should let us know how many Conservative MPs have not yet received one dose out of the 62 million doses administered

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, I will say it again. Strict measures have been put in place at the border since the start of the pandemic, and they were the right measures to put in place to protect the health and safety of everyone.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, I do not understand exactly what the objective of this is. If the objective is to suggest that we should not have measures for quarantine and testing procedures at the border, then maybe the member should say so.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, is the suggestion to take no measures whatsoever and to remove all testing and quarantine? If that is the intent, maybe we should hear that more clearly.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, again I have not heard the answer yet. Is the intent to ask the government to remove all testing and quarantine measures, as has been suggested by this—

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, an example is the $4-billion accelerator fund, which we are going to invest in municipalities and provinces, because we know that to partner with them is key to solving the housing crisis.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, another example is the rental housing construction initiative, a $26-billion investment in support of housing builders in Canada. That is going to create tens of thousands of new homes.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, we said that just recently, and we have repeated it. What I could add now is that a new Canada housing benefit has been in place for a year, and it has helped 300,000 Canadians pay their rent.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, another number to add to all of the other numbers I mentioned earlier is 530,000 Canadians being lifted out of housing needs because of investments in the national housing strategy.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, another number to add to all the numbers I mentioned is 300,000. This is the number of homes being renovated—

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, one program I have not mentioned yet is the one dealing with innovative systems and programs in building housing. There are 125,000 homes being constructed because of this particular program.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, one more initiative we have announced recently is the rapid housing construction initiative, which is going to lead to the construction of tens of thousands of new homes in just a year.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, time is short, so let me repeat the numbers. They are 1,000,000, 300,000, 125,000, 71,000, 530,000, 9,200, plus a $4 billion acceleration fund to work with the provinces, territories and municipalities.

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal

Business of Supply  Madam Chair, that is interesting. We had those questions from the member for Carleton. My colleague said—

December 8th, 2021House debate

Jean-Yves DuclosLiberal