Thank you everyone.
We return to Parliament this week with a bigger and stronger team.
With 2.4 million more votes and 24 more seats than before.
News of our recount win in Newfoundland adds to this growing strength with our best seat count in that province in two decades.
Union workers, young people, newcomers, and others voted for us for the first time.
And they voted out of hope for a change.
While we narrowly missed forming government, we now have every duty to fulfill that hope and fight for that change.
That change means a Canada that is affordable, safe, self-reliant and united.
So our priorities for this session:
- Get the cost of living down with a spring budget reveals the true deficit and lowers spending, taxes and inflation.
- Get homes built by cutting taxes and red tape on construction.
- Restore economic independence by unleashing our resources and businesses.
- Bring safety to our streets with tougher laws to stop crime.
- Getting immigration under control.
Cost of living and budgeting
Mr. Carney told us all he had a plan.
“Plans, not slogans” he said.
(That is a slogan. But never mind.)
A budget is a plan.
First, his Finance Minister said there would be no budget.
Now, they say the budget will come in the fall—when half the fiscal year is over.
Maybe he believes the budget will balance itself.
We need a budget now to cut bureaucracy, consultants, foreign aid and corporate welfare to generate the savings for lower debt, taxes and inflation.
For too long, workers and small businesses have carried this morbidly obese government on their backs.
They cannot afford it anymore.
Lowering the cost of government will lower the cost of living.
We must unburden our hardworking people, so that they can get further and higher.
With stronger buy power and lower taxes, our incredible workers and entrepreneurs will have their work rewarded and our economy strengthened.
Economic Independence
We all want a permanent end to Canada-U.S. tariffs.
We will work with the government to help make that happen.
We can’t help but note that the Prime Minister told people during the election that he would put elbows up with dollar-for-dollar tariffs that would raise tens of billions of dollars.
Now, we learn that while he was making that promise he quietly put elbows down and eliminated most tariffs.
Their platform promised $20 billion of tariff revenue in a platform released after they quietly eliminated most tariffs.
Where will he get the money from now?
More taxes? More debt?
Look, despite the Prime Minister’s doublespeak, we will work with the government to get a Canada-U.S. deal that reinforces our sovereignty, ends tariffs and cooperates to strengthen our military.
But we need to make our economy independent and self-reliant so we are no longer vulnerable to such surprises from abroad.
That means unleashing our industry and its mighty workers to make things here for ourselves and overseas markets.
It is not enough to say you want to build. The government must also remove the laws, rules and taxes that stand in the way.
Conservatives will push for an end to:
- Industrial carbon taxes
- Energy caps
- Electric vehicle mandates
- The no-new pipelines law
- The west-coast shipping ban and more
If the government agrees to enact these changes, we will pass them with lightning speed.
Doing so will allow us to be self-reliant from the U.S, by building:
- Canadian mines
- Canadian pipelines
- Canadian nuclear
- Canadian LNG plants
- Canadian hydro dams
- and so much more…
We must be the fastest place in the OECD to get a building permit and cut taxes on work, investment, energy, and homebuilding.
Speaking of homebuilding…
Conservatives will fight to:
- Free up land
- Speed up permits
- Cut taxes on buyers and builders.
We must restore the promise of home ownership to all who’ve worked hard.
Crime
Those homes must be in safe neighbourhoods which means ending the crime wave Liberal laws have unleashed.
We will fight to:
- End catch and release bail,
- End house arrest and
- End multiple murder discounts
To secure the border.
We will push for treatment and not more drugs to free our loved ones from the clutch of Addiction.
Immigration
We must end out-of-control Liberal immigration by:
- Reducing numbers
- Capping population
- Deporting criminals,
- And integrating newcomers.
Canadians are a welcoming people, but our health care, housing and job market cannot absorb the numbers Liberals have allowed.
We must also ensure that foreign conflicts are left at the door. No more rampaging antisemitic riots in our streets.
Our five goals:
- Bring down the cost of living with a budget that cuts spending, taxes and inflation
- Boost home building by cutting taxes and red tape on construction
- Unleash our resources and businesses to free our economy from dependence on the U.S.
- Restore safety to our streets by repealing Liberal crime laws
- Get immigration under control
These are our goals.
But our mission is summed up in one word: hope.
When we expose the government’s failures, demand policy changes, we do it not only to hold them accountable for the mess they made, but also so there is hope that things will get better.
When we present as a government in waiting, we remind people there is hope for their and our country’s future.
The hope is that our youth will move out from parents’ place, start a family in a new home, with happy problems, like having to get out of the car to move the kids’ hockey net so they can get the car into the garage… knowing that their kids are safe playing outside.
The hope for families that the fridge can be full without the bank account going empty.
The hope that seniors can return to their evening walk without fear of crime or robbery.
The hope that our trades workers can get six-figure jobs digging mines, building pipelines and constructing homes.
The hope of restoring a country that takes care of its own and stands on its feet united under one flag in the freest country in the world.
The hope for the strivers, the battlers, the fighters – the ones who scrape by and fight on – the ones who get knocked down, but get up, never quit, and keep pushing forward.
They won’t give up, neither should we.
We are their champions. Their worries are our concerns; their cause is our purpose.
They are counting on us; they believe in us; they put their hope in us and we will fulfill that hope.
For our people. For country. For Canada. Now and always.
Thank you.