PM Trudeau on Funding for Housing, Israel-Hamas War – October 20, 2023

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces $114 million in funding through the Housing Accelerator Fund for the construction of 3,150 new housing units in Brampton, Ont., over the next three years. He is joined at the news conference in Brampton by federal ministers Kamal Khera (diversity, inclusion and persons with disabilities) and Sean Fraser (housing, infrastructure and communities) as well Patrick Brown (city mayor).

Responding to questions from reporters, the prime minister comments on the Canadian government’s position on the unfolding situation in the Middle East and on what plan Canada would like to see for the region following the current Israel-Hamas war. Trudeau also faces questions on Canada’s decision to bring 41 of its diplomats home from India following the plan by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to strip them of diplomatic immunity. Relations between the two countries remain strained following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations of India’s link to the killing of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in B.C. (no interpretation)