Grant Jackson

Slower phase-down, production first

The other end of this axis: Faster fossil phase-down

Repeatedly calls carbon tax a costly failure and attacks industrial carbon tax on fertilizer and farm equipment.

The carbon tax was a costly, punishing failure, and the mental gymnastics that these Liberals now go through, after 10 years of flogging how the carbon tax was going to save the planet and then proudly putting forward a bill that cancelled it, are nothing short of hypocritical. For years they mocked and demonized anyone who questioned their tax-and-spend climate scheme, and they told families in southwestern Manitoba that paying more to heat their homes, drive their trucks and buy their groceries was somehow good for them in the long run.

Expand production and export

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

Calls for national energy projects including oil and gas pipelines and criticizes suppression of the sector.

Madam Speaker, we will certainly support the government if it actually provides a plan to build national energy projects in this country, including oil and gas pipelines. We have seen nothing from the government members about that, and we look forward to seeing that plan come forward.

Provinces lead

The other end of this axis: Ottawa leads

States forestry management outside national parks is a provincial responsibility.

Certainly, it is a provincial responsibility to manage forests that are outside national parks. It is important for the province to have the tools to do so. I understand there are acts that the previous Liberal federal government enacted, such as the Species at Risk Act, which prevent certain controlled burns from being undertaken.

Lower taxes and tighter spending

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

Repeatedly criticizes deficits, high spending and calls for tax relief and spending cuts.

It is a plan to make life more affordable by reducing taxes; reducing government spending; cutting waste; building safer communities; targeting investments in nation-building projects, such as national energy corridors and pipelines; and having a jail, not bail, plan, which would put criminals behind bars and ensure that they remain behind bars to serve time for the crimes they committed to destroy our communities and destroy our families.

Lower intake

The other end of this axis: Higher permanent intake

Criticizes high immigration levels for overwhelming services and says Liberals broke the system.

We are in a time when we are talking, in the broader immigration context, about the fact that all of our social services, particularly our health care system and, without question, our housing system, have not been able to compete and keep up with the number of people coming into Canada and becoming new citizens of this country.

Enforcement and sentencing

The other end of this axis: Prevention and restraint

Calls for rejecting soft-on-crime agenda, repealing bail reforms and putting repeat offenders in jail.

When are the Liberals going to get serious, reject their soft-on-crime agenda, repeal Bill C-5 and Bill C-75, and put these criminals in jail, not out on bail?