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{
"time": "2023-05-02 16:50:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Ken McDonald (Avalon, Lib.)",
"fr": "M. Ken McDonald (Avalon, Lib.)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7732483\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madam Speaker, Conservatives keep going back to punishing municipalities that do not build affordable housing and taking away their infrastructure. How can they build more housing if they do not have money for the infrastructure from the federal government, as a partner in it? They are defeating the very purpose of what they are trying to do.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7732484\" data-originallang=\"en\">I came from the municipal level before I got here, and the municipality has to be involved in any home-building projects in a community, whether it is issuing permits or making sure they are inspected properly for the Canadian building code. We cannot eliminate the so-called gatekeepers that they keep referring to as municipalities. They have to be a part of it. They have to be a part of this equation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7732485\" data-originallang=\"en\">Again, punishing them and taking away infrastructure defeats the purpose of trying to get more housing built in any community.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7732483\" data-originallang=\"en\">Madame la Pr\u00e9sidente, les conservateurs reviennent sans arr\u00eat sur cette id\u00e9e qu'il faut punir les municipalit\u00e9s qui ne construisent pas de logements abordables et les priver de leurs infrastructures. Comment les municipalit\u00e9s peuvent-elles construire plus de logements si le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral \u2014 qui est cens\u00e9 \u00eatre un partenaire \u2014 leur coupe l'argent destin\u00e9 aux infrastructures? Les conservateurs vont \u00e0 l'encontre de ce qu'ils cherchent \u00e0 faire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7732484\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je viens du milieu municipal et je sais qu'une municipalit\u00e9 doit participer d'une fa\u00e7on ou d'une autre \u00e0 tous les projets de construction de logements qui concernent son territoire, que ce soit en d\u00e9livrant des permis ou en veillant \u00e0 ce que les travaux soient inspect\u00e9s conform\u00e9ment au code canadien du b\u00e2timent. Nous ne pouvons pas \u00e9liminer les municipalit\u00e9s, ces soi-disant \u00ab emp\u00eacheurs de tourner en rond \u00bb comme ils aiment les appeler. Les municipalit\u00e9s doivent faire partie du processus. Elles doivent faire partie de l'\u00e9quation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7732485\" data-originallang=\"en\">Encore une fois, cette id\u00e9e de les punir et de les priver d'infrastructures va \u00e0 l'encontre de l'objectif, qui est de construire davantage de logements, et ce, quelle que soit la municipalit\u00e9.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2023/5/2/ken-mcdonald-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/ken-mcdonald/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4510/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "12181328",
"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Business of Supply",
"fr": "Travaux des subsides"
},
"h3": {
"en": "Opposition Motion\u2014Home Ownership and Renting Affordability",
"fr": "Motion de l'opposition \u2014 L'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la propri\u00e9t\u00e9 et le loyer abordable"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2023/5/2/",
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}
}