June 2024 ­Ottawa's common sense in short supply

It’s so good to be back in our constituency for what I know will be a great summer following a busy session in Parliament, holding the Trudeau Liberal government accountable. 

There truly is no greater honour than getting to bring your voice to Ottawa. I look forward to connecting with as many of you as possible throughout the summer to hear about the issues that are affecting you, your families, and your businesses.

Yorkton-Melville is where common sense is found. This has never been more important, because after 9 years of Justin Trudeau, there doesn’t seem to be much of it left in Ottawa. 

Taxes are up, housing costs have doubled, and crime and chaos are wreaking havoc on our streets - all of which has led to the worst decline in Canadians’ living standards in generations.

In 2015, Trudeau promised to make housing more affordable. Nine years later, mortgages and rent have doubled.

Working Canadians can’t put food on their tables. This year alone, Canadian families will be paying $700 more on groceries at a time when more than half of Canadians are $200 away from not being able to pay their bills.  People are lining up at food banks in record numbers—not in the thousands—but in the millions. Last year, food banks saw a record two million visits in a single month, and an additional one million more people are expected in 2024. In Toronto alone, 1 in 10 people rely on food banks because they can’t afford to feed themselves.

Shockingly, Food Banks Canada has reported that 25 percent of Canadians are now living at a poverty-level living standard – a figure that is even higher for young people and single-parent households.

Across the country, Canadians are begging for much-needed relief. So, what does Trudeau do? He decided to hike his carbon tax by 23%, further driving up the cost of food, gas and heating. He just doesn’t understand that when you tax the farmer who makes the food and the trucker who ships the food, you end up taxing the family who buys the food.

Trudeau’s latest tax grab raises taxes on doctors during a doctor shortage, on farmers during a food cost crisis, and on small businesses while Canadians’ paycheques are shrinking. This job-killing Trudeau tax will drive billions of dollars of machines, technology, business and paycheques out of our country. He isn’t making Canada fairer. He’s making Canada poorer.

All of this makes one thing abundantly clear: Canadians will experience no relief as long as Justin Trudeau is in power.

But here’s the good news. Things were not like this before Justin Trudeau, and they won’t be like this after he’s gone. Better days are ahead for Canada because, fortunately, there is an outbreak of common sense happening across the country. Canadians are smart, hardworking people, and they know that Justin Trudeau is simply not worth the cost. 

They know that there is a government-in-waiting in the Conservative Party of Canada that will restore the country we know and love under the common-sense leadership of our next Prime Minister, Pierre Poilievre.

But it takes getting rid of the gatekeepers. 

Common Sense Conservatives will get rid of the local and municipal gatekeepers that have slowed construction and made housing unaffordable. Instead, we will build the homes Canada needs, using a simple mathematical formula that rewards homebuilding and punishes gatekeeping. 

We will also get rid of those in Ottawa who put stop signs in front of our workers. Across provinces and territories, across industries—from the electrician in Ontario to the energy worker in Alberta—we are going to end the assault on Canadians’ paycheques.  We will green-light energy projects here at home. Instead of driving away production into the hands of dirty dictators abroad, we will unleash the power of our clean and ethical Canadian energy and bring home powerful paycheques for our people.

We will axe inflation by ending the deficits that have led to inflation in the first place. We will abolish Trudeau’s carbon tax to bring down the cost of heat, gas, and groceries.

We will bring back powerful paycheques and taxes that are lower, simpler, and fairer so that people can once again reap the benefits of their hard work and thrive in a country that they can be proud of…

A place where people from all backgrounds and walks of life can build a life and thrive here in the freest country on earth.  

Sincerely,

Cathay

Here is what to expect in this e-newsletter:

1. From my family to yours, happy Canada Day!

2. Nominations OPEN for King Charles III Coronation Medal

3. Connecting with Constituents

4. Enter the Summer Fishing Contest!

5. Axe the taxes for summer

6. Honouring our Veterans

7. The sigh says it all.

8. At Work in Ottawa

   
   

Justin Trudeau and his wacko Liberal-NDP coalition have made life more expensive and more dangerous.

Trudeau's leadership: all style, no substance, and definitely not worth the cost.