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climate, healthcare, education, and what seems to be the never end cycle of reduced benefits along with increased taxes and fees?
It’s very easy to be different from the Conservative Party. They don’t have any clear principles now. Scheer said they are a centrist, pragmatic party. That means they’re trying to compete with the Liberals for the centre and they will not defend any clear conservative principle. If they form the government, they will simply govern like Liberals, with some adjustments on some issues. That’s why I call both parties the LibCons.
The People’s Party has clear principles. All our policies are based on individual freedom, personal responsibility, fairness and respect. We want a smaller, less interventionist government, that doesn’t try to manage everything and tell Canadians how to live their lives. There are a lot of Canadians who want politicians who say what’s on their mind instead of giving them BS in order to buy their votes.
On specific issues, we are the only party that’s not going to tax and spend billions of dollars, and make Canadians less prosperous, to reach unrealistic greenhouse gas emissions. We are the only party that wants to lower immigration levels and make sure immigrants better integrate into Canadian society, which is also what half of Canadians want.
We’re not going to do anything about education. That an exclusive provincial jurisdiction, like health care. I’m open to more private sector involvement in health care, as long as we have a universal system as in every other developed country apart from the US. But it’s up to provinces to make changes. And we will allow them to do it by transferring them tax points instead of conditional grants to fund health care. They will become more autonomous and accountable for their decisions. They won’t be able to say that it’s Ottawa’s fault if we have the worst waiting lists in the developed world.
We want lower taxes for both businesses and individuals. We will pay for it in part by abolishing all corporate welfare and foreign aid, and many other reforms to focus the federal government on its core responsibilities.