Priority Issues as Your
Etobicoke-Lakeshore CPC Candidate

The economy pays for our way of life

• Under the last nine years of Liberal-NDP government, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth has trailed well behind population growth, meaning Canadians are lagging the rest of the world in per capita prosperity. The OECD predicts that Canada’s will be the worst-performing advanced economy over the next decade.

• In September, Statistics Canada reported that labour productivity had declined by 0.2 percent, which is the 8th decrease in 9 quarters. The productivity gap with the US now stands at about $20,000 per person per year. This means that Canadian workers are equipped with less investment than American workers.

• Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey showed that year-over-year employment had increased by 303,000 in October 2024. You could say that is good news. Except that the working age population has increased by 1.2 million over that same time period. This is an enormous employment deficit that leaves more Canadians competing for fewer jobs and more people out of work.

• Despite being warned that his policies were harming Canada’s productivity, Justin Trudeau decided to hike capital gains taxes on businesses and investors earlier this year.

• According to economist Jack Mintz, the increase in the capital gains tax rate will reduce Canada’s GDP by $90 billion, real per capita GDP by 3 percent, its capital stock by $127 billion, and employment by 414,000.

• The solutions involve:

  • Reduce the tax burden on job creators, including corporate taxes, income taxes, carbon taxes and capital gains taxes.

  • Reduce the regulatory burdens placed on companies that make it onerous to invest and grow.

  • Fix our immigration system, with a focus on skills, and reduce the rate of population growth.

  • Make our city an attractive place to invest by reducing the crime, chaos, drugs and disorder that we see in too many parts of our great city.

• A top priority for me is to make Canada and the GTA an attractive place to invest and grow businesses. This means reducing taxes and unnecessary regulations that throttle economic growth.

 

Let’s get real on crime

• After nine years of Justin Trudeau, Canadian cities have become rife with crime, chaos, drugs and disorder. The Liberal-NDP government’s experiment of taxpayer-funded hard drugs has been a failure, yet they refuse to accept this obvious fact.

• Since 2016, more than 30,000 people have died from opioid-related overdoses in Canada, more than all other accidental death causes combined.

• I pledge to stop handing out taxpayer-funded hard drugs and help the provinces invest in treatment and recovery so that we can bring home our loved ones drug-free.

• In July, Canada’s Premiers wrote a joint letter to Justin Trudeau demanding that he stop the catch-and-release policy of “repeat and violent offenders being released into our communities without proper considerations.” This is a direct consequence of Trudeau’s Bill C-75 and Bill C-5, which gave high priority to releasing repeat violent offenders and took away mandatory jail time for certain violent crimes.

• I pledge to give our law enforcement and our justice system the tools they need to make our streets safe by giving violent repeat offenders jail, not bail.

 

Stop wasting taxpayer money

• According to the federal Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), Canadians will suffer a “net cost,” paying more in the carbon tax than they will ever get back in rebates.

• Despite this cost, the Liberal-NDP government decided to hike the carbon tax by 23 percent last spring, as part of their plan to quadruple the carbon tax by 2030.

• Excessive government spending has driven up inflation, meaning Canadians are paying more through bracket creep and other hidden forms of taxation.

• Government waste abounds under the current Liberal-NDP government. One example (there are many) is the reckless spending at Sustainable Technology Development Canada. The Auditor General (AG) found that directors had “awarded funding to projects that were ineligible, [and where] conflicts of interest existed.”  The AG found that over $330 million in taxpayer money was paid out in over 180 cases where there was a potential conflict of interest, with Trudeau-appointed directors funneling money to companies they own. In total, $123 million worth of contracts were found to have been given inappropriately, with $59 million being given to projects that never should have been awarded any money at all.

• Fixing the deficit and reducing taxes are hard work. Budgets do not balance themselves. A top priority for me is to make government spending responsible and accountable, so that we can lower taxes for hard-working Canadians.

 

Help Canadians make ends meet

• Since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister in 2015, housing costs have doubled, and groceries cost $700 more per year than they did in 2023. In Toronto in September, over 300,000 household members had to rely on food banks, a 27 percent increase over the year before.

• 50 percent of Canadians are concerned about the rising cost of living, made worse by Trudeau’s plan to quadruple the carbon tax by 2030.

• I will work to end the excessive government spending and carbon taxes that drive inflation, including food inflation, so that lower-income Canadians, especially, can afford the quality of life that they deserve.

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Revive the dream of owning a home

• According to rentseeker.ca, the Trudeau government oversaw an increase of 107% in the cost of rent in its first eight years in office. In 2015, the asking price for a two-bedroom apartment in Toronto was $1,288 per month. Now, in 2025, the asking price for a two-bedroom apartment has reached $2,671 per month. Rent costs have greatly outpaced Canadians’ paycheques.

• According to Habitat for Humanity’s Affordable Housing Survey, 82 percent of Canadians now worry that the housing crisis is impacting the health and well-being of Canadians, while 88 percent of renters now say the dream of homeownership is out of reach.

• The Liberal-NDP government decided to increase taxes on homebuilding through their capital gains inclusion rate increase. As stated by CMHC, “small investors provide much of the funding to build condo apartments” yet the Liberal-NDP capital gains increase will cripple this investment.

• On top of that, Toronto City Hall continues to raise property taxes, development charges and regulatory burdens on homeowners and home builders. I will aim to reduce capital gains and other taxes on homebuilding, and I will prioritize measures that tie federal infrastructure money to housing completion.

 

Restore our proud military

• Trudeau has overspent in every department except our military, yet his government promised to cut almost $1 billion annually from the defence budget and allowed over $10 billion more to lapse over eight years.

• Fixing our economy and government finances with allow us to restore our proud military and ensure they have the equipment and resources they need to do their job to protect Canada and defend our freedoms.

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Ukraine’s fight is humanity’s fight

• I was part of the previous common sense Conservative government that negotiated the original Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement and launched Operation UNIFIER to train thousands of Ukrainian troops.

• Conservatives will deliver the munitions and weapons Ukrainians need to defend their sovereignty from Putin’s aggression. I will always stand with Ukraine and the fight for its freedom and democracy.

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No more tolerance for terrorism

• Iran and its proxies, including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, are brutalizing their own people, launching missile strikes against innocent Israeli civilians and attacking merchant vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

• I will endeavour to list terrorist organizations under section 83.05 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, ending their ability to fundraise, recruit and organize on Canadian soil.

 

Elections free of foreign interference

• Canadians deserve to have their elections protected from coercive, clandestine and corrupt foreign interference threat activities of authoritarian states. I pledge to work to ensure Canadians can hold elections with the confidence that they will be protected from threats, intimidation and other interference from foreign states.