Fatima Khan speaks on C-15 at the first reading stage.

Elena Petrov speaks on C-15 at the first reading stage.

Marcus Dubois speaks on C-15 at the first reading stage.

Priya Sharma speaks on C-15 at the second reading stage.

Fatima Khan speaks on C-15 at the second reading stage.

Noah Beaulieu speaks on C-15 at the second reading stage.

Mr, Speaker I think this is a very important piece of legislation and think it should be passed

Mr, Speaker I think this is a very important piece of legislation and think it should be passed

Mr, Speaker I think this is a very important piece of legislation and think it should be passed

Mr. Speaker, more top-down Ottawa bureaucracy and another unfunded spending bill will not build a single new home for hard-working Islanders. If we actually want to solve the housing crisis, we need common-sense solutions like cutting the red tape and taxes that stall development, not adding more government bloat that sticks our kids with the bill.

Mr. Speaker, housing will always be unaffordable so long as we have people coming into the country to buy housing stock. Yes Mr. Speaker, I am talking about all those Nigerians!

Mr. Speaker, while I agree with my Conservative colleague that we must remain fiscally responsible and cut unnecessary administrative delays, let us dispense entirely with the xenophobic rhetoric we just heard from the member opposite, which has no place in this House. What actually works is the balanced approach embedded in Bill C-15: targeted investments backed by our expert housing panels that partner with municipalities to build the mixed-income supply Canadians need, without resorting to either the reckless cuts proposed on the right or the uncosted, universal overreaches we often hear from the NDP. I encourage all pragmatic members to support sending this bill to committee so we can refine it through sensible, evidence-based amendments.

Mr, Speaker I think this is a very important piece of legislation and think it should be passed

Mr. Speaker, once again we are listening to a bunch of out-of-touch career politicians in this chamber bicker over which flavor of big-government interference is going to fix a crisis that Ottawa itself created through reckless mass immigration and endless deficit spending. While the Liberals want to throw more taxpayer cash at bureaucratic housing panels and the Conservatives offer up timid half-measures, the reality is that no amount of top-down central planning will build a single home until we drastically slash federal spending, cut crippling taxes, and slam the brakes on unsustainable population growth that is pricing ordinary Canadians out of their own country. The People's Party isn't here to play along with this bipartisan establishment theater, and I will proudly stand alone against this latest slush fund if it means defending the working people of Whitehorse from being taxed into oblivion.

Mr. Speaker, another “Strategy”, another “Plan” from the government, never any concrete actions from the government on the housing crisis. Which has locked a generation of Canadians out of the possibility of home ownership.

Well, listening to both sides of this grand theater, it’s clear Ottawa is more interested in shouting past each other than actually helping folks in St. John's keep a roof over their heads. I've run a small business in Newfoundland, and I can tell you that another glossy federal strategy written by bureaucrats in suits isn't going to lay a single foundation, but neither is pretending we can wish the housing shortage away with partisan slogans. I'll read through the fine print of Bill C-15 to see if there's any actual help for our local municipalities, but if it's just more top-down window dressing, I'll be voting against it—no matter which whip tries to tell me otherwise.

Mr. Speaker, I think that Wanuke is right and that we should talk more about this.

Mr. Speaker, I think that Wanuke is right and that we should talk more about this.

Mr. Speaker, while we debate yet another glossy strategy that fails to meet the scale of the emergency, let’s be entirely clear: we cannot solve the housing crisis without addressing the climate crisis, because energy-inefficient homes lock working families into crushing utility bills while fueling the very emissions destabilizing our future. We need a massive federal mobilization to build energy-passive, climate-resilient public housing through a true just transition, not more half-measures that protect corporate developers and fossil fuel profits while ordinary Canadians freeze in the cold.