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{
"time": "2026-02-13 11:30:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Kurt Holman (London\u2014Fanshawe, CPC)",
"fr": "Kurt Holman (London\u2014Fanshawe, PCC)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9153348\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mr. Speaker, with respect, despite government announcements and staged photo ops, the data clearly shows that we are not building enough homes to meet Canada's needs. An insufficient supply of new homes is why CMHC expects prices to keep rising. Just this week I also met with London members of the Canadian Home Builders' Association, and they informed me that taxes and regulatory costs have risen 700% over 25 years and now make up 30% of the price of a new home.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9153349\" data-originallang=\"en\">At what point will the government acknowledge these burdens and adopt our plan to remove GST on new homes?</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9153348\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, en toute d\u00e9f\u00e9rence, je signale que, malgr\u00e9 les annonces du gouvernement et les s\u00e9ances photo organis\u00e9es, les donn\u00e9es montrent clairement que nous ne construisons pas suffisamment de logements pour r\u00e9pondre aux besoins du Canada. C'est en raison de l'offre insuffisante de logements neufs que la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 canadienne d'hypoth\u00e8ques et de logement s'attend \u00e0 ce que les prix continuent d'augmenter. Cette semaine, j'ai \u00e9galement rencontr\u00e9 des membres de l'Association canadienne des constructeurs d'habitations de London, qui m'ont appris que les imp\u00f4ts et les co\u00fbts r\u00e9glementaires ont augment\u00e9 de 700 % en 25 ans et repr\u00e9sentent d\u00e9sormais 30 % du prix d'une maison neuve.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9153349\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 quel moment le gouvernement reconna\u00eetra-t-il ces charges et adoptera-t-il notre plan visant \u00e0 supprimer la TPS sur les logements neufs?</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2026/2/13/kurt-holman-3/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/kurt-holman/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4755/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "13361786",
"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"
}
}