Lowering Taxes

• Eliminate the consumer carbon tax.

• Reverse the increases to the capital gains tax.

• Within 60 days of forming government, bring together entrepreneurs, inventors, farmers and workers to design a tax cut to lower taxes on energy, work, homebuilding, investment and making stuff in Canada

• Reduce paperwork by 20% by simplifying tax rules

Responsible Resource Policy

Incredibly, Canada can’t deliver most of our energy to the world without going through the USA. Worse, we cannot even deliver our own oil to ourselves.

Western Canadian oil must travel through the United States to get to Ontario and Quebec. Americans have even threatened to shut down the flow of Canadian oil to Canadian customers. An east coast Canadian export port is out of reach. And with the third largest proven oil reserves in the world, we nonetheless import $220 billion a year (2023) of oil from Saudi Arabia and West Africa [Statista].

Prime Minister Trudeau famously said there is no business case for selling our natural gas to countries like Germany, Japan, Greece, and others who were begging for it. Now the Americans and Qataris are beating us to the punch with sales agreements.

Consequently, we sell all our natural gas exports to the Americans at roughly $1.45 per million British Thermal Units (2024), instead of selling it to Europe or Asia for $13 to $16.

A common sense resource plan under the Conservatives would:

• repeal the unconstitutional No-New-Pipelines Law (C-69); within 60 days of forming government, and replace it with a new law that protects nature while getting projects approved within a year of an application.

• rapidly approve LNG plants, pipelines, mines and other major projects.

• green light federal permits for the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario to harvest chromite, cobalt, nickel, copper and platinum. In the last decade, the timeline from getting a permit to explore to getting a mine built has increased by 10 years to a total of about 26 years. That has Canada amongst the longest regulatory paths in the world.

• support a national West-to-East pipeline from the prairies to Saint John, New Brunswick

Honouring Canadians

• Honour the brave Canadians who fought in Afghanistan by building a suitable monument; strengthen penalties for those who tear down or deface Canadian symbols; and restore Canadian heroes like Terry Fox, the Famous Five, and Indigenous peoples to the passport design.

• Restore in-person citizenship ceremonies and add the following words to the existing oath: “I pledge gratitude to those who worked, sacrificed, and gave their lives to defend the freedom I now enjoy and to build the country of Canada I now call home. Like them, I pledge to fulfill my duties as a Canadian citizen.”

Responding to US Tariff Threats

Canada is the United States’ closest neighbour, greatest ally and best friend. There is no justification for President Trump’s aggressive treatment of Canada. But we must respond to protect our country.

Conservatives will pass Canada First legislation that will:

1. Respond with tariffs carefully aimed at maximizing impact on American companies while minimizing impact on Canadians. That means targeting U.S. products that we can make ourselves, buy elsewhere, or do without.

2. Put all the tariff revenues into help for affected workers and businesses; Government should not keep a dime of the new revenue.

3. Pass an emergency tax cut to bolster the economy, slow inflation, and save and create jobs. The carbon tax and capital gains tax hikes must be the first to go.

4. Immediately scrap the anti-resource law C-69 (“no more pipelines” bill) and greenlight LNG plans, pipelines, mines, factories, and port expansions, so we can sell and send our valuable products to diversified overseas markets.

5. Bring in truly free trade within Canada by knocking down interprovincial barriers to help replace lost north-south trade with east-west trade and to make us more self-reliant. More detail below.

6. Rebuild our military and take back control of our borders to regain the confidence of our partners, assert our sovereignty, protect our people, and put Canada First. More detail below.

Securing our Borders

There are three major problems at Canada’s borders:

Drugs

49,000 Canadians have died of opioid overdoses in the last nine years, with many of the deadly drug ingredients imported from China and Mexico. In British Columbia, police discovered a superlab containing enough fentanyl and materials to make as many as 95 million doses.

Only 1% of shipping containers are inspected coming into our country, allowing drugs and guns to sneak through in the other 99%.

Guns

Under this government, gun-related crime is up 116%. The Toronto Police Association says that 85% of gun offenders use illegal firearms brought across our border from the United States.

Criminals and Terrorists

This government has let multiple criminals into Canada. They admit they have lost count of the number of people who are in Canada illegally. One government report guess-timated it could be between 20,000 and 500,000 people.

A Conservative Six-Point Strategy:

1. Call up Canadian Forces troops to temporarily patrol the border with military helicopters and surveillance. Do it now, while permanent measures are under development.

2. Add at least 2,000 border agents.

3. Extend CBSA powers along the entire border, not just crossings.

4. Install border surveillance towers as well as truck-mounted drone systems to spot border incursions.

5. Install high-powered scanners at all major land crossings and shipping ports - scanners that can see through container walls or vehicles to spot drugs, guns and stolen vehicles.

6. Track departures so government officials know which deportees are still in Canada illegally.

   To pay for these measures, Conservatives will scrap the failed gun buyback from legal owners, which after four years and $67 million, has not yet taken a single gun off the streets. Ending this will save a planned $600 million expense.

   We will also cut the $21 billion a year in pricey outside consultants, and phase out thousands of back-office bureaucratic jobs through attrition. Under this government, the public service has grown by 110,000 jobs - about 41%.

Lowering Interprovincial Trade Barriers

Interprovincial barriers to trade cost the Canadian economy - and consumers. It is one of the first places we can and should take action to insulate our own economy from outside threats. Conservatives have proposed the following strategy:

1. Bring the Premiers together to agree on removing as many exemptions as possible that block movement of goods and services between provinces.

2. Prioritize an agreement on one standard set of trucking rules to get billions of dollars of goods moving east-west instead of only north-south. This move alone would boost GDP by $1.6 billion.

3. Create a Blue Seal Professional Licensing Standard so doctors, nurses and engineers can work in all provinces and territories, and Canadians trained abroad can quickly get certified and working by meeting consistent Canadian standards.

4. Offer provinces a Free Trade Bonus: every trade barrier removed will generate more GDP and revenue. This increased tax revenue will go to provinces. As this bonus would only be paid out of boosted government revenues from free trade, it would not add to the massive deficit.

Arctic Sovereignty

This video reveals the extent to which our neighbour Russia is expanding its military presence in the far north. Even more surprising is that Beijing has now declared the PRC a “near Arctic state”, and is visiting our waters uninvited.

The reason is simple: they covet a northern sea passage for shipping. They likely also want access to our valuable resources. They know Canada isn’t strong enough to defend our own waters and northern lands. And we can no longer depend upon the United States to do it for us.

The Conservative Party has released a plan to shore up Canada’s presence in our Arctic territories and put Canada first:

• Double the size of the 1st Patrol Group of the Canadian Rangers, from 2,000 to 4,000 Rangers.  

  The Canadian Rangers provide self-sufficient mobile forces to support the military. Doubling the number of Rangers will ensure they can continue to report suspicious and unusual activities while providing local knowledge and expertise.

• Acquire two additional polar icebreakers for the Royal Canadian Navy.

  This is in addition to delivering the two polar icebreakers the Seaspan and Davie shipyards are now building for the Coast Guard. We will get those finished by 2029 for a total of four icebreaking ships.

• Build at least one permanent Arctic military base within two years.

  Iqaluit already has a Forward Operating Location and a functional airport and seaport that can accommodate the Royal Canadian Air Force. The base will be able to host a full RCAF wing to launch and land new F-35 fighter jets to deter, intercept, and destroy threats, and land Poseidon P8 aircraft to carry out search and rescue, anti-submarine warfare, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) work.

Coming Down Hard on Drug Kingpins

Conservatives are committed to mandatory life sentences for anyone involved in the production and distribution of over 40mg of fentanyl.

Organized crime “superlabs” produce drugs that are killing Canadians, and being sent abroad, including to the United States and Australia. One lab found by RCMP in British Columbia had supplies sufficient to manufacture as many as 95 million doses!

Just 2mg is enough to kill a person, so 40mg could kill 20 people. Those who produce and traffic this drug should be punished as killers.

We would also mandate 15 years for traffickers caught with 20mg to 40mg.

More Canadians have now died of drug overdoses than died fighting for Canada in the Second World War. The Liberal-NDP government eliminated mandatory jail time in Bill C-5 for drug lords. We will reverse that irresponsible decision.