Taking Aim at Canada's Biggest Challenges

To make your vote matter:

As your elected representative, I will ensure we bring the focus and intelligence required to solve our biggest challenges and achieve rapid policy results on what you told me were your priorities: inflation, housing, affordability, immigration, crime, healthcare, defence, energy, freedom, environment, transportation & trade.

That’s a big laundry list of issues to fix, and it will take a hard-working proven fighter and bridge-builder to get it done. It’s up to you to choose who we send to work together with other Conservative MPs and win broad public support, to make the case for the systemic changes required to address these big issues.

If you agree that we need someone with first-hand experience addressing our opioid crisis & treatment challenges, someone with knowledge of what actually happens inside our hospitals and clinics, and with global experience serving with our Canadian Armed Forces, then I ask you to answer the call with me.

Together we can make a true difference.

But when it comes to policy, where do we start?

Sometimes candidates just reword a few key existing policies from the party platform and leader, and seem to imply it is their own. But, let’s be realistic, Conservatives need to be team players, so every candidate in this race would have to broadly support the same party policies if elected. It’s when we are united that we win. Divided we lose.

Inflation: Food Prices, Gas Prices, Housing Prices

Why is everything going up, except for wages? This is a multi-part problem that requires a multi-part solution….
The carbon tax really is a “tax on everything” as Stephen Harper once said. This is especially true when taxed on our food supply, logistics/transportation, heating and building materials - why make life’s necessities more expensive? The more we spend on food, fuel and housing the less we have for everything else. It makes imports from nations without a tax seem cheaper, while our exports become more expensive, hurting our economy and jobs.
Excessive government waste, borrowing and money printing have put pressure on interest rates, increasing what we all pay for housing, cars and credit. Higher costs put pressure on landlords to raise rent in a zero-vacancy market. Building new supply isn’t financially viable, so construction go down. High rates make business loans more expensive so they struggle to make project financing work, reducing growth. When business spends more on debt it means less available for your wage increase. Or worse, they raise their prices - which we all end up paying. We need a plan to fix the budget and increase government efficiency to get better service with less cost so that the taxes we pay today are not just wasted on big government futility tomorrow.
An out of touch leadership disconnected from the daily reality of most Canadians. They keep adding costly taxes, gatekeeping bureaucracy and regulation with no regard for the downstream impacts on your family, your business or our shared economic competitiveness and productivity. Unlike Trudeau, I grew up in a middle-class family that had to work hard to make ends meet. I’m now raising a family and feel that daily pinch at the grocery store and the gas station along with everyone else. I will take your message to Ottawa so that they can understand what life really feels like for you.

Healthcare, Addiction, Mental Health, Homelessness & Poverty

While some might see these issues as separate and siloed, I see the effects of a failed drug policy. At 3 AM in the Emergency Room, when I am forced to apply a Band-Aid solution to a patient who has been failed by a government that considers legalized drugs as a solution to poverty, homelessness, and addiction. It's not common sense. It can’t continue. Root causes do not go away if you only treat the symptoms, and if patients never get better they take up more time and resources. We need treatment and recovery, not an endless cycle of harm facilitation.

Immigration, Border Security, Crime & Policing

My children respect those in uniform, especially those who serve in the police and with other front-line protectors. With family members in police forces, both in Canada and Ireland, we understand the risks these brave public servants face to form the thin blue line that separates us from harm. Police forces experience distress in morale when they capture the same re-released criminals over and over again. We owe them better than that.
Lines on a map matter. Even as a country of immigrants, which we are, we must return to a rational immigration plan; where we sensibly match the number of people we invite to our capacity to house and integrate them so they are more likely to succeed, and the public keeps faith in a system. A fair meritocratic needs based system where all Canadians, current and future, are aligned on a value set that attracts the best and brightest qualified immigrants who have a chance to succeed here and contribute to our shared prosperity in areas of clear need, like our healthcare system. If we forget who we are, and what we stand for, then we are going to be left adrift. Not on my watch.

Foreign Policy & NATO, International Trade/Economy

I have seen and felt our international reputation diminish over the last decade, both here at home and while serving overseas. My first-hand experiences working with our NATO partner nations and the USA have convinced me to advocate for reaching 2% of GDP to defence funding so that our international voice is once again respected, and proper deterrence is achieved in a dangerous world. If we can’t protect our own shores, how can we protect others? If we aren't pulling our weight with our allies militarily why would they favour us in their economic partnerships? We are an export-reliant trading nation, we can’t afford to be on the outside looking in.
Energy Security is key to our national and international security. Our European allies should have been choosing our ethical Canadian oil and gas instead of relying on Russian resources. If they had, they would have been in a stronger strategic position over the last few years with less of their money going to fund the military buildup of a potential adversarial power. The same goes for our Pacific allies.

I see these as the four key areas shaping our Canada’s future.

Priorities matter. There are certainly many other policy issues I will work hard to achieve results on, but if we focus our best efforts on rapidly solving these key areas we will get the country back on track so we have more resources to help address everything else.