Anthony Housefather

Higher spending and more capability

The other end of this axis: Restrain spending and deployments

Thanks armed forces and supports fight against ISIS.

I also want to congratulate everyone in the Canadian Armed Forces for their excellent and important fight against ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh—whatever we are going to call it.

Expand production and export

The other end of this axis: Restrict new oil and gas

Excerpts support exploiting Canadian energy and pipelines like Line 5.

Speaker, my hope is that everybody looking at the challenges we are facing from the United States will come to the rationalization that we need to exploit Canadian energy to its potential. I am going to hope and pray that everyone will look at this as rational actors and will understand that we need to be resilient across our country first so that we are not buying oil from other countries to import to Canada when we have enough oil on our own.

Lower taxes and tighter spending

The other end of this axis: Higher taxes and public spending

Supports middle-class tax cut and benefits.

On January 1 of this year, nine million Canadians received a tax break. Our government was elected on a plan to grow the economy, and these changes are an important first step in that plan.

Assertive alliances and sanctions

The other end of this axis: Alliance restraint

Rejects BDS and supports Israel.

The motion reads: That, given Canada and Israel share a long history of friendship as well as economic and diplomatic relations, the House reject the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which promotes the demonization and delegitimization of the State of Israel, and call upon the government to condemn any and all attempts by Canadian organizations, groups or individuals to promote the BDS movement, both here at home and abroad.

More flexibility for employers

The other end of this axis: Stronger unions and standards

Explains why more flexibility for Air Canada makes sense.

It would give flexibility to Air Canada to decide where it may locate workers, provided that it retains centres of excellence in those three provinces.

Enforcement and sentencing

The other end of this axis: Prevention and restraint

Favors regulation and strict penalties for impaired driving.

Indeed, this is an issue which unites us and should unite us as Liberals, New Democrats, Conservatives, Greens, and members of the Bloc, because we all want to get drunk and impaired drivers off our roads. We all want strict penalties for those who commit this crime. Watching the news yesterday and seeing the mug shot of Tiger Woods looking out at us should be a stark reminder to every one of us that this is an offence that anyone can commit.

Deeper continental integration

The other end of this axis: Diversify away from one partner

Supports Bill C-13 to comply with trade agreements.

There has been a lot of discussion about broader trade deals like the TPP, and this bill would allow us to comply with whatever World Trade Organization agreement on trade facilitation, TFA, provisions we are not currently compliant with respecting non-compliant goods and goods in transit.