Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of more than doubling the cost of housing and causing a housing crisis in Canada..“I got some terrible news today. The average mortgage payment in Canada has risen to $3,500,” said Poilievre..“I have been saying that housing costs had doubled under Justin Trudeau. It's now far worse than that. The average mortgage payment has gone from $1,400, the day that Trudeau promised he would make housing affordable, to $3,500. That's two and a half times higher. This is the fastest increase in mortgage payment costs in the history of Canada and by far.”.Poilievre pointed out many mortgages would renew at much higher interest rates over the next two years..“After eight years of Trudeau, let me ask you this. What happens in Canada in the next two years as people's mortgages roll over and their monthly bills go up? By two or $3,000 a month?” said Poilievre..“What happens? What happens when they can't pay? Where do they go? Our homeless shelters are already overflowing. Our refugees already live on the streets and under bridges. What do you think is going to happen when 10,000 or 100,000 families lose their homes? Where will they go?”.Poilievre said nothing has come out of the Liberal cabinet retreat in Prince Edward Island..“More speeches, more photo ops, more puff pieces for his incompetent housing minister to go out and attack the very programs he was running two weeks ago,” said Poilievre..“Justin Trudeau, the vacation is over. You've doubled housing costs. We have young people living on the streets. It's time to recall the (House of Commons) so that we can get Canadians a home. Conservatives will put forward tangible solutions to the problems you have caused, Mr. Trudeau.”.A reporter asked Poilievre about Trudeau accusing him of making people “angry.”.“Justin Trudeau is worried that people are angry. You know what I worry about? I worry about the nurse living in her van,” said Poilievre..“After eight years of Trudeau, I worry about the tent cities that never existed before he was prime minister, but now we see in every single city in Canada. I read about the 30,000 families that have lost loved ones to drug overdoses because of the hopeless economy and situation in which they find themselves.”.Poilievre wants to support the trades, the 'boots,' as much as the government supports other professions, the 'suits.'.“We're going to give the same support to the trades that we give to the professions and universities so that we can have more boots, not just more suits, to build the houses of the future,” said Poilievre.
