Canadian National Political
Issues May 27, 2019

1) Media Bailout

The federal government has named the eight organizations that will create a special advisory panel, to advise how a $600 million media support fund (tax dollars) will be given out to news organizations.

The eight representatives are from News Media Canada, the Association de la presse francophone, the Quebec Community Newspaper Association, the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec, Unifor and the Fédération nationale des communications.

The Liberals also named the organizational group, which will administer an additional $50 million to help regional media outlets.

Key Dilemma:

A healthy democracy relies on an independent press, free of political influence.

It should never be up to any government to determine which media outlets receive significant tax dollar support and which outlets do not.

This is just the latest example of Justin Trudeau using the spending power of his office to stack the deck in the upcoming election.

He has already:

Put spending caps on opposition parties while putting no such limits on government.

Left a massive loophole in elections laws that allow Liberal-friendly foreign special interest groups to interfere in campaigns.

Unilaterally taken over planning for the ‘TV Leaders Debates’, without any input from opposition parties

He knows he is in political trouble, and he’s changing the rules to try and give himself an advantage during the upcoming October election.

Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives will use every tool available to continue to fight Justin Trudeau’s desperate attempts to rig the next election in his favour.

2) Conservatives Balancing the Budget

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced that Justin Trudeau’s reckless spending and massive deficits have made it impossible for a new Conservative government to eliminate his unwise deficits, and responsibly balance the budget in the short term.  Truthful accounting is a Conservative promise.

Key Dilemma:

Justin Trudeau has added $80 billion of new spending in the last two years.  This has made it impossible for a responsible government to balance the budget in the short-term.

Under Justin Trudeau, deficits will continue for at least another 20 years.  Andrew Scheer will responsibility eliminate the Trudeau deficit in about a quarter of that time.

Canadians can avoid a crisis by electing a Conservative government that will live within its means, protect core services, and responsibly phase out the Trudeau deficit.

The Conservative platform will contain a fully costed and vetted fiscal plan with a clear path back to balanced budgets, and national financial well being.

Two years ago, responsibly balancing the budget in the short term was still feasible.  But with $80 billion in new spending over the last two years, it has been calculated that Trudeau has made it impossible.

The deficits a Conservative government will inherit, will be Trudeau’s deficits, not Conservative deficits.  Presently, even the most optimistic estimates don’t have Trudeau’s deficits eliminated in 20 years, by which time Canada will be in a fiscal crisis and down a financial chasm.  Conservatives have a plan to responsibly phase out Trudeau’s deficits.

Justin Trudeau promised a balanced budget by 2019.  Instead, we have massive and permanent deficits that have made it impossible for anyone to responsibly balance the budget in the short term.

3) Pipeline Plan / National Energy Corridor

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer visited Calgary to discuss his six-point plan to build pipelines, and unfold his vision for a national energy corridor.

1.        Cancel the carbon tax

2.        Repeal Bill C-69, the No-More-Pipelines Bill

3.        End the BC shipping ban

4.        Establish timelines for approvals

5.        Eliminate foreign interference in approvals process

6.        Invoke federal jurisdiction when necessary

Key Dilemma: 

Before Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister, Canada had three private companies willing to invest more than $30 billion to build three, nation-building projects that would have created tens of thousands of jobs and generated billions in economic activity.  Those companies continue to invest in pipelines elsewhere in the world, but not in Canada.  The Conservative approach will give Canada the best chance of having these kinds of projects succeed.

An energy corridor for pipelines and transmission lines would allow major job-creating projects to be built, while minimizing environmental impact.

It is a proposal Mr. Scheer would work toward, in full consultation with the Provinces and Indigenous Canadians, who would share in the prosperity it would provide.

An energy independent Canada would create an economy firing on all cylinders – across all sectors and regions.

Canada has more than enough oil  –not only to displace imports from rogue states  –but to put an end to all foreign oil imports once and for all.  That is part of the Conservative nation building vision  -a Canada fueled exclusively by Canadians by 2030.

It is a national security issue, and an economic opportunity, to keep Canadian money circulating within Canada, instead of going to foreign dictatorships.