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OTTAWA \u2014 Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called for removing obstacles to homebuilding and promoting market competition in a speech today offering his alternative to the Liberal budget tabled earlier this week.<\/p>\n
Poilievre delivered his address to a business crowd at the Economic Club of Canada, a few blocks away from the Canadian Club Toronto, where Prime Minister Mark Carney was outlining the vision behind his federal budget at the same time.<\/p>\n
The leader of the Official Opposition blasted the $78.3-billion deficit projected in the budget for this year as the largest ever put on the backs of Canadian taxpayers.<\/p>\n
Poilievre said Carney was creating new bureaucracies to manage critical areas like homebuilding and argued that approach just puts more obstacles in the way of developers who want to build.<\/p>\n
He said home construction should be tax-free and that the federal proposal to waive the sales tax on some new builds for first-time buyers doesn\u2019t go far enough.<\/p>\n
The Conservative leader also says he supports Liberal plans to introduce a framework for stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency typically pegged to the value of another asset for stability.<\/p>\n
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