Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2026-06-16 17:05:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Hon. Gregor Robertson",
        "fr": "L\u2019hon. Gregor Robertson"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9413260\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, Bill <a data-HoCid=\"13986875\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-26/\" title=\"An Act to authorize certain payments to be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purpose of improving housing supply\">C-26</a> would be one tool in a large tool box that we need to activate to get the housing market turned around here in Canada, to get more affordable housing built, to make sure we have a healthy housing market and to make sure the homebuilding industry is innovating and advancing to make housing more affordable. This would be one tool in collaboration with the provinces and territories. It would be a direct investment, a transfer, and would give them the flexibility to apply it where needed.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9413261\" data-originallang=\"en\">Ontario is choosing to eliminate its HST for this year, which I think is having a very positive effect on the market in Ontario. Other provinces and territories would have different approaches depending on their markets, but we have many other tools from Build Canada Homes and reaching home, which is supporting homelessness efforts, to the housing accelerator fund, which works with communities and local governments to cut red tape and get housing built.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9413262\" data-originallang=\"en\"> We have a wide array of tools. We need to continue scaling up the work on those tools, scaling up the investment that is needed to ensure that we have enough affordable housing being built, and to make sure that as a House we are here supporting the efforts and collaboration with all levels of government and the private sector.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9413260\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"13986875\" href=\"/bills/45-1/C-26/\" title=\"An Act to authorize certain payments to be made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purpose of improving housing supply\">C\u201126</a> est l'un des nombreux outils dont nous avons besoin pour redresser le march\u00e9 du logement au Canada, construire plus de logements abordables, veiller \u00e0 ce que le march\u00e9 du logement soit sain et veiller \u00e0 ce que l'industrie de la construction r\u00e9sidentielle innove et progresse pour rendre le logement plus abordable. C'est un outil que nous utiliserions en collaboration avec les provinces et les territoires. Il s'agirait d'un investissement direct \u2014 un transfert \u2014 qui accorderait aux provinces et aux territoires la souplesse d'investir l\u00e0 o\u00f9 c'est n\u00e9cessaire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9413261\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'Ontario a choisi d'\u00e9liminer sa TVH pour cette ann\u00e9e, ce qui, \u00e0 mon avis, a un effet tr\u00e8s positif sur son march\u00e9. D'autres provinces et territoires ont des approches diff\u00e9rentes en fonction de leurs march\u00e9s, mais nous disposons de nombreux autres outils, comme Maisons Canada et Vers un chez-soi \u2014 qui soutient les efforts de lutte contre l'itin\u00e9rance \u2014, ainsi que le Fonds pour acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer la construction de logements, qui permet aux collectivit\u00e9s et aux administrations locales de r\u00e9duire les formalit\u00e9s administratives et de faire construire des logements.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9413262\" data-originallang=\"en\">Nous disposons d'une vaste gamme d'outils. Nous devons continuer \u00e0 intensifier leur utilisation, \u00e0 augmenter les investissements n\u00e9cessaires pour veiller \u00e0 ce qu'il se construise suffisamment de logements abordables et \u00e0 soutenir les efforts de m\u00eame que la collaboration de tous les pouvoirs publics et du secteur priv\u00e9.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2026/6/16/gregor-robertson-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/gregor-robertson/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/4848/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "13586716",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": "Ordres \u00e9manant du gouvernement"
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Government Business No. 11\u2014Proceedings on Bill C-26",
        "fr": "L'affaire \u00e9manant du gouvernement no 11 \u2014 Les d\u00e9lib\u00e9rations sur le projet de loi C\u201126"
    },
    "h3": {
        "en": "Motion That Debate Be Not Further Adjourned",
        "fr": "Motion portant que le d\u00e9bat ne soit plus ajourn\u00e9"
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2026/6/16/",
    "related": {
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    }
}