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View Eric Melillo Profile
CPC (ON)
View Eric Melillo Profile
2021-06-10 11:48
Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank the ministers for joining us.
Today I will direct my questions to Minister Vandal. Minister, it's nice to see you again, and I hope you're doing well.
You spoke about quite a few topics in your remarks. I hope to get to them all. One of the big ones we've been talking and seeing a lot about in recent reports is housing in the north. We know there are housing shortages and housing issues with mould, disrepair and overcrowding across the territories and northern Canada. In particular, Nunavut especially has many challenges, and I do know that the government has allocated funding towards this. You spoke about that in your remarks.
Closing the gap is also something you say a lot, and the gap still remains quite large, even with this funding. It seems to me that a lot of the bureaucracies that have been created are not really getting the funds they need to go to build these units in some cases. As well, your government's anti-development approach to many projects, I believe, has also made no real incentives for developers to do their work and build new units.
I'm wondering if you can comment on that. Given that your government has spent so much money, as you like to talk about all the time, the results for people across the north...the job is just not getting done right now.
View Dan Vandal Profile
Lib. (MB)
Thank you for that very important question on housing in the north and in Nunavut.
You're absolutely right. The gap is huge, and the gap was made even larger when, before 2015, 10 years of complete non-funding by the previous government only exacerbated an already bad situation—
View Dan Vandal Profile
Lib. (MB)
Since being elected in 2015, through our $70-billion national housing strategy, our government has helped over 9,000 northern families on housing issues, including finding homes for thousands of them. We've signed 10-year housing agreements with all three territorial governments—agreements that were non-existent before—who will invest close to $800 million over those 10 years.
We've signed a $400-million housing agreement with Inuit rights holders, who will invest in housing in Inuit Nunangat. In the last budget, 2021, we're—
View Dan Vandal Profile
Lib. (MB)
Since 2015, we've helped 9,000 northern families on issues concerning housing, including several thousand new units.
View Dan Vandal Profile
Lib. (MB)
View Eric Melillo Profile
CPC (ON)
View Eric Melillo Profile
2021-06-10 11:51
Okay. By your estimates from the department's work, how many units would you say are still needed?
View Dan Vandal Profile
Lib. (MB)
Listen, the gap in northern housing is huge due to chronic underfunding by previous governments, and I'll be fair—
View Dan Vandal Profile
Lib. (MB)
—that is including some of our previous Liberal governments, but mostly there was zero funding under the previous tenure of the Harper government, but I will admit—
View Dan Vandal Profile
Lib. (MB)
I will admit that we need to do a better job of breaking down barriers not only in Nunavut but also in Northwest Territories and Yukon. In NWT, we put together, with the government of NWT, a high-level tiger team with senior deputy ministers from both governments to really take those barriers down.
The funding is there. Why it's not flowing in at as adequate a pace as it should be needs to be addressed, and we're committed to working with all three territorial governments and indigenous governments to do just that.
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