Report From Parliament Hill

Eric Melillo, MP, Kenora Riding

Dear Constituents

Common Sense Conservatives recently announced that we will axe the GST on new homes sold for under $1 million if we form the next government. This tax cut will save up to $50,000 and will spark 30,000 extra homes built every year. 
We will also push provinces to remove their sales tax from new home sales, which would save tens of thousands of dollars more for homebuyers. The move comes after housing costs have doubled in the 9 years of the NDP-Liberal government, rising faster than in any other G7 country. 
Back in October of 2015, the month before Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister, it took only 39 percent of the median pre-tax household income to cover home ownership costs. Now, it takes nearly 60 percent. 
While it used to be normal for working class youth to buy homes, now eighty percent of Canadians tell pollsters homeownership is only for the “very rich”.
After nine years of NDP-Liberals, the situation is so bad that there are now 1,400 homeless encampments in Ontario alone.
In Ontario and British Columbia, government charges make up more than 30 percent of the cost of a new home. The federal government takes the biggest share. In Ontario, about 39 percent of the total taxes on a new home go to politicians and bureaucrats in Ottawa.
We will fund this big homebuyers’ tax cut by eliminating bureaucratic programs that Liberals admit have not built a single home. 
Only Common Sense Conservatives will bring home Canada’s promise: that hard work earns a powerful paycheque that buys affordable food and homes in safe neighbourhoods.
Working for You 
If you’re planning to be in Ottawa and are interested in attending Question Period or taking a tour of Parliament, please let me know and my office can help reserve Question Period and tour tickets. 
As always, if there is anything my office can assist you with, please call me at 807-223-2182 (Dryden) or 807-468-2170 (Kenora) or email me at 
[email protected].

Sincerely,
Eric Melillo
Member of Parliament
Kenora Riding