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{
"time": "2026-02-13 11:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "John Brassard (Barrie South\u2014Innisfil, CPC)",
"fr": "John Brassard (Barrie-Sud\u2014Innisfil, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9153293\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, the Liberals have stolen all our ideas. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9153294\" data-originallang=\"en\">A recent Missing Middle Initiative report shows just how many young people have lost hope of ever owning a home. For parents and grandparents, the signs have been obvious for years. If we are honest about it, the problem started well before Donald Trump became the President of the United States. Despite the Liberals throwing tens of billions of dollars at the problem, the fact remains that 10 years of structural incompetence and Liberal policies have caused house prices and rent to double and, with that, the lost hope of home ownership for a generation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9153295\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Here is an idea: Why not remove the GST on all new homes to start restoring the hope, at least, of home ownership among young Canadians?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9153293\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, les lib\u00e9raux nous ont vol\u00e9 toutes nos id\u00e9es.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9153294\" data-originallang=\"en\">Un r\u00e9cent rapport de la Missing Middle Initiative montre \u00e0 quel point de nombreux jeunes ont perdu l'espoir d'acc\u00e9der un jour \u00e0 la propri\u00e9t\u00e9. Les parents et les grands-parents per\u00e7oivent les signes \u00e9vidents d'une telle situation depuis des ann\u00e9es. Nous devrions avoir l'honn\u00eatet\u00e9 de reconna\u00eetre que le probl\u00e8me a commenc\u00e9 bien avant que Donald Trump ne devienne pr\u00e9sident des \u00c9tats\u2011Unis. M\u00eame si les lib\u00e9raux ont inject\u00e9 des dizaines de milliards de dollars pour r\u00e9gler le probl\u00e8me, il n'en demeure pas moins que 10 ann\u00e9es d'incomp\u00e9tence structurelle et de politiques lib\u00e9rales ont fait doubler le prix des maisons et les loyers, ce qui a fait perdre espoir \u00e0 une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d'acc\u00e9der \u00e0 la propri\u00e9t\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9153295\" data-originallang=\"en\">Voici une id\u00e9e: pourquoi ne pas supprimer la TPS sur toutes les maisons neuves afin de commencer \u00e0 redonner espoir, \u00e0 tout le moins, aux jeunes Canadiens d'acc\u00e9der \u00e0 la propri\u00e9t\u00e9?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/2/13/john-brassard-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/john-brassard/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4725/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13361707",
"h1": {
"en": "Oral Questions",
"fr": "Questions orales"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Housing",
"fr": "Le logement"
},
"document_url": "/debates/2026/2/13/",
"related": {
"document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fdebates%2F2026%2F2%2F13%2F"
}
}