Jacob Mantle

Slower phase-down, production first

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

Excerpts repeat calls to scrap industrial and consumer carbon taxes to lower costs for farms, fuel, and concrete.

In fact, that is why we proposed, in our platform, and again, I encourage the Liberals to take the whole thing, not just half of it, to get rid of not just the consumer carbon tax but also the industrial carbon tax. It defies any understanding of basic economics to suggest that we can keep the industrial carbon tax, but that would not translate down into pricing that consumers pay.

Expand production and export

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

Excerpts call for building more pipelines to get Canadian oil and gas to world markets and criticize carbon taxes raising energy costs.

First, do you think it would be a good idea to build more pipelines to get Canadian oil and gas to world markets and get better pricing?

Lower taxes and tighter spending

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

Excerpts repeatedly criticize deficits and call for fiscal restraint and less spending.

” Now one does not have to be an expert, let alone a self-proclaimed expert, to know that more spending means more debt, and more debt means higher housing inflation, higher food inflation and harder times for Canadians.

Market supply and deregulation

The other end of this axis: Public supply and demand controls

Excerpts stress dream of home ownership blocked by taxes and spending, demand same opportunities as parents had without government tenements.

I refuse to live in a shipping container. I refuse to live in a communist-style tenement built by Brookfield Homes. I demand, for my generation, the same opportunities that my parents had before me. The second reason that I think people sent me here is crime, crime on our streets and in our neighbourhoods.

Enforcement and sentencing

The other end of this axis: Prevention and restraint

Excerpts repeat demands for bail reform, ending revolving door for offenders, and focus on criminals over law-abiding owners.

My residents want drugs and gangs off their streets. Just this week in Georgina, the York Regional Police busted a drug ring through Project Madruga. I want to thank the York Regional Police for their diligent work there in getting fentanyl, cocaine, meth, opioids and illegal firearms off the streets. The Speech from the Throne says that the government will bring forward a renewed focus on this issue by making bail harder to get.