{"id":2260382,"date":"2024-06-05T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T16:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trudeaus-conservative-arch-foe-poilievre-uses-facts-to-crush-him-on-housing-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T12:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T16:27:37","slug":"trudeaus-conservative-arch-foe-poilievre-uses-facts-to-crush-him-on-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trudeaus-conservative-arch-foe-poilievre-uses-facts-to-crush-him-on-housing-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Trudeau&#8217;s Strong Opponent Poilievre Debunks Him With Facts on Housing Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrudeaus-conservative-arch-foe-poilievre-uses-facts-to-crush-him-on-housing-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2260382&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Canadian Conservative\u2063 Party leader Pierre\u200b Poilievre, \u2063a \u200bprominent adversary of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, criticized Trudeau&#8217;s approach to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hidden-homeless-more-people-living-in-vehicles-due-to-covid-hardships\/\" title=\"\u2018Hidden Homeless\u2019: More People Living In Vehicles Due To COVID Hardships\">housing crisis<\/a>. Poilievre highlighted\u200c discrepancies \u200cin housing promises, emphasizing the need\u2063 for increased homebuilding to meet targets. He pointed out\u200d inefficiencies in government spending on housing, advocating for streamlined\u2062 processes\u200b to facilitate \u2064affordable housing\u200c construction.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s arch-foe, gave his usual articulate common-sense answer and cogent criticism of Trudeau when a questioner asked him about the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation saying the country needs 5.8 million homes to address its housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The questioner said Trudeau\u2019s Liberal Party has claimed that it already has that in the budget and that Poilievre disagreed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI don\u2019t disagree; the math disagrees,\u201d Poilievre stated bluntly. \u201cThey promised they\u2019re going to double homebuilding. Their own housing agency said since they made that promise, homebuilding has gone down and that it will go down next year and the year after that. Look at my exchange with Trudeau in the House of Commons last week. To get to 3.9 million \u2014 forget to 5.9 million \u2014 to get to 3.9 million new homes by the scheduled deadline of 2031 that Trudeau promised, he needs to build 550,000 homes a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI asked him six times in the House of Commons, \u2018Are we going to build 550,000 homes this year?\u2019\u201d Poilievre recalled. \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t answer. Well, the truth is, he\u2019s on track right now to building about 200,000 homes, not even half of what he\u2019s promised. This is not a matter of me disagreeing; it\u2019s a mathematical fact. He\u2019s not delivering. It\u2019s a mathematical fact that nine years ago when I was Housing Minister, the average rent for a one-bedroom was $973. Now it\u2019s $2,000. These are the facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHas he spent a lot of money on housing programs? Yes,\u201d Poilievre acknowledged, but pointed out, \u201cHe spent $89 billion on housing affordability and the result is that housing costs have doubled. The problem is he\u2019s putting the money into bureaucracy. Government bureaucrats don\u2019t build homes; private sector builders do. Government bureaucrats are in the way. So we need to get the government bureaucracy out of the way and deliver fast, affordable permits to build the homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He got down to bare facts: \u201cOne-third of the cost of every newly-built home in Ontario is government permits and taxes. One-third. That\u2019s more than we spend on the labor to build the home. So we\u2019re spending more on the bureaucrats, who don\u2019t build anything, than we do on the carpenters, framers, plumbers, and electricians who build. Isn\u2019t that insane?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLike when you buy a house, do you not find it incredible \u2014 you have this beautiful house and you say, \u2018well, where did the money [go]?\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m buying the house, now say it\u2019s a million dollars. What does the million dollars go to? You know, you break it down: lumber, materials. You think: More money goes to people sitting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/microsoft-president-solarwinds-hack-biggest-ever\/\" title=\"Microsoft President: SolarWinds hack biggest ever\">government offices<\/a> than goes to the people swinging the hammers, fitting the pipes, framing the lumber. It doesn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nothing-about-this-election-seems-to-add-up-the-liberty-loft\/\" title=\"Nothing about this election seems to add up | The Liberty Loft\">make sense<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1716990157394000&#038;usg=AOvVaw33qQydjIo8bet419amChif\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe need to cut the bureaucracy,\u201d he declared. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why my common sense plan will require cities [to] free up land, speed up permits, cut development charges and fees, as a condition of getting federal funds. If they don\u2019t hit my targets, they won\u2019t get their money, and they\u2019ll be less of those bureaucrats in those corner offices. So, if they beat the target, they\u2019ll get more money. We\u2019re going to pay our municipalities the way we pay realtors and builders: for the number of homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The math disagrees with Trudeau. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u5wLixn56A\">pic.twitter.com\/u5wLixn56A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierrePoilievre\/status\/1798011452206321672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, a fierce rival of Prime Minister Trudeau, responded thoughtfully to a question about the housing crisis. Poilievre raised valid points when confronted with the report stating that Canada requires 5.8 million homes. 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