Jamie Schmale

Slower phase-down, production first

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

Criticizes carbon tax as ineffective and a tax grab that raises costs without cutting emissions, repeated across speeches.

Also, when looking at British Columbia's greenhouse gas emissions as of 2013, when it introduced a carbon tax, we see they are up 4.3% since the 2010 levels. How is this doing anything for the environment? Rather, it appears to be just a tax grab without income tax cuts.

Higher spending and more capability

The other end of this axis: Restrain spending and deployments

Calls for maintaining combat role with CF-18s, supporting allies against ISIS, and ensuring forces have equipment, criticizing withdrawal.

We, on this side of the House, believe that Canada should maintain its combat role in the fight against ISIS and terrorism, and that our CF-18s should be part of that fight. The Liberal government plans to increase its deployment of military personnel to approximately 830, up from approximately 650.

Expand production and export

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

Opposes pipeline cancellations and calls for building Trans Mountain to reach new markets and support oil sector.

The project, which twins the existing 1,150 kilometre Trans Mountain pipeline between Strathcona County, Alberta, and Burnaby, B.C., would create a pipeline which increases the capacity from 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 barrels per day. The expansion project would assure that the Canadian oil industry could reach new markets by expanding the capacity of North America's only pipeline with access to the west coast.

Lower taxes and tighter spending

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

Criticizes deficits, tax hikes, and program spending; supports keeping money in taxpayers' pockets and balanced budgets, repeated.

While in office, our Conservative government reduced taxes more than 140 times. We did so through targeted measures that were responsible and consistent. However, there is a significant difference.

Market supply and deregulation

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

Excerpts support private property rights and criticize regulatory uncertainty harming housing and development.

moved: That, given that, (i) the Cowichan Tribes v Canada decision created massive uncertainty around fee simple property, the legal basis on which Canadians and businesses alike own their homes and land, (ii) this decision is already having significant impact on home values and the financing of projects, (iii) the subsequent Musqueam Rights Recognition Agreement has deepened uncertainty and failed to say anything definitive about fee simple property, deepening uncertainty and creating a dangerous precedent with potentially serious consequences, (iv) the government implemented the Directive on Civil Litigation Involving Indigenous Peoples, that includes Litigation Guideline #14, which discourages government lawyers from using all available arguments to defend private property rights, the House: (a) call on the government to put private property first in the Cowichan case, arguing that it has priority over all other title; (b) call on the government to replace Litigation Guideline #14 from the Attorney General of Canada's Directive on Civil Litigation Involving Indigenous Peoples that prevented the federal government from defending property rights in the Cowichan case, with a guidel

More flexibility for employers

The other end of this axis: Stronger unions and standards

Argues raising minimum wage reduces jobs as market sets value based on supply and demand.

The laws of supply and demand don't change just because you dictate the value of something. The true value of the wage is how the market will take it, with supply and demand. To raise the value of labour it's based, usually, on scarcity.

Enforcement and sentencing

The other end of this axis: Prevention and restraint

Opposes watering down tough-on-crime measures and supports protecting society from dangerous offenders.

It is no wonder that there is violence in prisons. It does not take an academic to explain why, when criminals are placed in a community together, there is a high incidence of crime. Some might say, who cares, that they get what they deserve? However, that is not the consensus within our society.

Deeper continental integration

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

Excerpts repeatedly support major trade deals including TPP, CETA and USMCA.

The Conservatives are in support of a trade agreement with the United States and with Mexico. It is good for business and it will provide the certainty for which all are looking. The Conservatives, of course, are the party of trade.