QUESTION PERIOD — Infrastructure and Communities
Affordable Housing
December 3, 2025
During the campaign, your government promised a dramatic surge in home building — what you called the most ambitious housing plan since the Second World War — yet the PBO’s latest report shows Build Canada Homes is on track to deliver just 26,000 units over five years, significantly short of your goal of 500,000 homes and barely a 2% increase over existing projections.
So, leader, how can you look Canadians in the eye and claim this resembles anything close to a doubling of home building while families across the country face soaring rents, shrinking options and a deepening housing crisis?
I will give the same answer I provided to Senator Housakos: If you care about housing, Canadians and the difficulties Canadians are facing, will you be supporting Budget 2025 here? Will you vote for the budget? Because your colleagues in the other place voted against all the measures put forward in Budget 2025.
Thank you for the question because it underlines that we have an initial $13 billion in capitalization to bolster industry, other orders of government and Indigenous communities to build affordable housing everywhere in Canada. We already have six sites that have been targeted — Dartmouth, Longueuil, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Edmonton — for 4,000 factory-built homes, and, in the end, it will be up to 45,000.
The numbers are truly abysmal, and your track record as a government is failing Canadians. The only paradigm your government is shifting is how quickly a Liberal can break a promise.
The PBO also warns federal housing spending will drop by more than half, leaving Canada almost 700,000 homes short of market demand by 2035. Leader, Canadians don’t need any more photo ops or announcements. They need homes. When will the government drop the fantasy, face reality and actually deliver results?
You agree we need homes, but you won’t agree to cut GST for first-time home buyers, because you voted against the budget. You don’t agree to foster building new houses everywhere in Canada, because you voted against the budget.
This is $13 billion, an unprecedented amount. That’s the record of the new government. I don’t agree with your premises.
