Conservative MPs asked for money from Liberal housing fund Poilievre wants to cut

[chuckChuck]

Well this is embarrassing for PP! LOL

It's kind of hard hard to criticize a program that your own MPs support!

Letters show Conservative MPs asked for money from Liberal housing fund Poilievre wants to cut

A number of Conservative MPs have written letters to the Liberal housing minister asking him to grant their communities funding from a program that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/pierre-poilievre/[/url]) this week called disastrous and promised to cancel.

Housing Minister Sean Fraser made the revelation in the House of Commons Tuesday while responding to a question from Poilievre.

“What [Poilievre] doesn’t know is his caucus colleagues have been going behind his back, writing me letters advocating for their communities to receive funding through the housing ([url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/topics/housing/)accelerator[/url] fund because they believe it will get more homes built,” Fraser said.

“My question for the Conservative members of his caucus, will they have the courage to stand up and tell him he is wrong?”

Fraser said on Wednesday that at least a dozen Conservative MPs have written to his office.

The Canadian Press has reviewed five letters sent between September 2023 and February 2024 by Dan Albas, Michael Cooper, Adam Chambers, Lianne Rood and Rob Moore. The MPs represent ridings in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and New Brunswick.

The letters asked Fraser to approve their communities’ applications to access the housing accelerator fund, a program that invited municipalities to compete for a pool of money based on the ambitiousness of their plans to build more housing.

Poilievre announced on Monday that he would abolish the program and instead use the money to fund his plan to scrap the federal sales tax on new homes sold for less than $1 million.

He attacked the housing accelerator fund during a news conference, calling it a “disastrous program that has led to less homebuilding and more local bureaucracies.”

However, Conservative MPs who sent letters to Fraser suggested the program would help their communities build more housing.

Cooper asked the minister to approve an application from St. Albert, Alta., to build a mixed affordability housing project.

“The requested federal funding is critical to making this needed development a reality – a development that will help address the significant shortage of affordable housing options in the community,” Cooper wrote in his letter, sent in February.

[url]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-letters-show-conservative-mps-asked-for-money-from-liberal-housing/[/url]

[TraderJoe]

the fact that you believe this is embarassing for them frankly makes me wonder if you can actually critically think...? MP's actually looking out for their constituents, says a lot about you, and the rest of the Liberal teet sucking lefties that think this is a bad thing! The fact that the Libs are criticizing the opposition for not getting things like houses built when they are not in power shows just how absolutely delusional that they are... Arrogance and incompetence not only abounds in our ruling party right now, it is in ample supply in their supporters as well!

[chuckChuck]

I am not criticizing the MPs who are trying to help their constituencies.

But PP plans to cut the very programs his MPs are using in their constituencies and replace it with his own single program.

Because the expert economist who said the tax cut is a good idea according to PP, also said the liberal housing programs should not be cut for his tax program. I step foward, 2 steps back! PP is going backwards!

But PP didn't mention that part did he!

[shtferbrains]

Government caused the problem by inflating the economy.

Stifling regulation at every level reduced competition and caused much longer project timelines.

Higher taxation from all levels of government increased costs and left less money to pay mortgages.

Add in high interest rates to increase mortgages by huge percentages .

Out of control immigration.

More government is the obvious solution?

[cropgrower]

our parrot is just spreading the propaganda , is a last ditch effort to try and save the liberal/NDP ship that is sinking very fast , its fun to watch , keep it coming cc

[sumdumguy]

That is the only thing Liberals are good at - slandering anyone who disagrees with their convoluted rhetoric. Why do you think masses are posting signs, “F Trudeau”?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

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More government is the obvious solution?

If not for Chuck and his socialist acolytes freely sharing their propaganda with us, I likely wouldn't have believed that there are people so gullible as to believe that more government is the solution to the problems that more government caused.

Saw a post on Twitter recently someone was upset at the conservative plan to cut civil servant jobs. Because consider the Lost tax revenue from all of the taxes the civil servants pay...

I'm not saying it was Chuck who made that post, but based on his history of being a math denier, I could easily believe it.

[WiltonRanch]

Chuck is sucked into the deal like Tom Cruise is sucked into Scientology to the point a well educated and intelligent person says and does stupid shit. See it all the time and the tell is when they start name calling and saying anyone who disagrees is stupid more so than wrong. Chuck has challenged me to defend my stances which is great for personal growth but obviously he hasn’t himself.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Chuck is sucked into the deal like Tom Cruise is sucked into Scientology to the point a well educated and intelligent person says and does stupid shit. See it all the time and the tell is when they start name calling and saying anyone who disagrees is stupid more so than wrong. Chuck has challenged me to defend my stances which is great for personal growth but obviously he hasn’t himself.

It's almost a double standard, isn't it?

[rumrocks]

If not for Chuck and his socialist acolytes freely sharing their propaganda with us, I likely wouldn't have believed that there are people so gullible as to believe that more government is the solution to the problems that more government caused.

Saw a post on Twitter recently someone was upset at the conservative plan to cut civil servant jobs. Because consider the Lost tax revenue from all of the taxes the civil servants pay...

I'm not saying it was Chuck who made that post, but based on his history of being a math denier, I could easily believe it.

Yup, I agree, I get the feeling our liberal leader broke a lot of cookie jars when he was growing up and was never disciplined or told to clean one up.

More examples of jars on the floor . . . .

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/24-facts-for-2024-canadians-should-understand-impact-of-government-policies

[chuckChuck]

Outgoing Saskatoon mayor says Poilievre's pledge to cut housing fund could kill hundreds of housing units

Charlie Clark says planned builds 'at serious risk' if Housing Accelerator Fund is cancelled


Liam O'Connor ([url]https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/author/liam-o-connor-1.6837733[/url]) · CBC News · Posted: Oct 31, 2024 5:20 PM CST | Last Updated: October 31



Saskatoon's outgoing mayor Charlie Clark says a recent pledge from the federal Conservative Party to cancel the national Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) would put hundreds of already-approved housing units in peril.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilivere announced on Monday that if his party forms government after the next federal election, he would cut the GST on new homes under $1 million.
Poilievre said he would pay for the plan by cutting two government programs — the Housing Accelerator Fund and the Housing Infrastructure Fund — which he described as costly bureaucracies.
The Conservatives say the move would save Canadians $40,000 on a $800,000 house and would spur the construction of an additional 30,000 homes in Canada every year.

[chuckChuck]

PP is finally going to get some serious push back with the new ads. Its about time!

The yapper will have to defend his stupid and simplistic slogans which he repeats again and again because the guy can't write a normal sentence to explain and defend his policy ideas.

And if Trump gets elected he will lose support with his Trump lite BS. And end up with a minority.

[newguy]

Axe the tax.Consevative leader says Moe tax adds 200 dollars a month mortgage payments on new homes and should be axed.

[chuckChuck]

Poilievre didn't seem to know his MPs to support their constituencies using the Liberal programs to build more housing.

No province has committed to removing the sales tax on new homes. And Crypto looks like a loser on his housing plan that he wants to download on to provincial budgets.

[shtferbrains]

The proposed tax deductions appear to be a much more visible and efficient reduction in housing costs ?
The Saskatoon mayor talked about loosing subsidies of $20 plus thousand per door whatever that means.
Does the tax deduction work out to more than that Chuck?

The efficiency would come from not loosing a large part of the total funds lining liberal friends pockets.

Much simpler more effective program.