[news] Conservatives shut down housing witnesses

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Lisa Barber | Rabble.ca | June 10, 2005 It was too good to be true. The Parliamentary Finance Committee had set aside a full hour on Thursday, June 9, to hear from three groups on housing. It would have allowed for ample questions and debate on how the NDP-revised budget would have affected affordable housing. But it was not to be. The Conservatives intervened time and time again with points of order that prevented the presentations from taking place. Housing advocates took a clear message to Parliament Hill to politely ask that approval be given to the NDP-Liberal budget agreement and its $1.6 billion investment in desperately needed social housing and $100 million in energy retrofit funding for low income households which is long overdue. But, unfortunately, the Conservative members of the committee refused to allow advocates to speak.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/11/93740/6294