Conservative Shadow Finance Critic Pierre Poilievre butted heads with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during Question Period on Wednesday, over the Liberal government's "mismanaging of the housing crisis."
"The more [the prime minister] spends, the more it costs," said Poilievre. "Housing prices increase from $450,000 under the last year of the Conservatives to $716,000 under the Liberals," and up 32 percent in "just over a year."
Poilievre asked Trudeau that if he is not to blame, then what is causing this housing price inflation, to which Trudeau said that the Liberals were helping first-time home buyers and "working with municipalities and provinces."
"When Conservatives were in power it cost less to own a home," responded Poilievre "Why are prices rising so suddenly? The amount of wealthy landlords buying houses went up by 100 percent since March of 2020," said Poilievre, who pointed out that that was the same month that the Trudeau Liberals began "printing money, flooding the mortgage system, and ballooning housing costs."
After question period, Poilievre said "this government has had a half-trillion dollars of inflationist deficits over the last two years... people cannot afford to gas their cars, feed their families, or buy a house for young people,"
"Too many dollars, too few goods. spend more, cost more." Poilievre criticized Bill C-2 (An Act to provide further support in response to COVID-19), which would provide new expenditures "without enough accountability."
Poilievre said that the Conservatives would support the bill under three conditions.
Condition 1: A full-funded, independent investigation into FINTAC's report that organized criminals got CERB benefits.
Condition 2: The finance committee be back up and running to do a full study for $7 billion of expenditure.
Condition 3: There be amendments to bills to ensure that no one receives benefits that could take one of the million open jobs.
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