Tory Redux

Tag: News

  • Andrew Scheer is right. It’s time to end corporate welfare in Canada

    From: Financial Post

    Last week, before any Canadian was debating dubious prime ministerial dress-ups, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer came out with a pledge to eliminate $1.5 billion in federal corporate welfare spending.
    It’s only scratching the surface: by some estimates total annual federal subsidies to business are in the range of $14 billion. But it’s also nothing to sneeze at: $1.5 billion represents the tax bills of 100,000 average-income Canadian households.
    But even as a tentative first step, Scheer’s proposal represents a clear break from the comfortable status quo consensus about corporate welfare in Canada. For starters, it’s hard to think of a major party leader openly using the term “corporate welfare” in recent years .

  • CPC:announces four-point plan to make home ownership more affordable

    From :BNN

    Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is laying out a plan this morning he says will make it cheaper for Canadians to buy a home.
    Scheer says he’d return to allowing people to take out 30 year mortgages to help lower monthly payments, and ease what’s known as the stress test on mortgages, and remove the test altogether from mortgage renewals.
    A Conservative government would also make surplus federal real estate available for development to increase housing supply, and launch an inquiry into money laundering in the real estate sector.

  • Scheer promises more support for Canada’s Veterans

    a new Conservative government will:

    1. Enshrine, in legislation, a Military Covenant between the Government of Canada and all Canada’s Veterans. This will guarantee that every Veteran is treated with respect and is provided services in a timely manner.

    2. Clear the current backlog of Veterans’ benefit applications within 24 months.

    3. Create a reliable, dependable pension system that, unlike the Liberal status quo, is fair to Canada’s most disabled Veterans.

    4. Strengthen transition services to support discharged or retired Canadian Armed Forces members.

    5. Strike an independent inquiry to provide answers about Canadian Armed Forces members who were administered mefloquine.

    6. Provide more service dogs to Canadian a a Veterans in their communities.

    7. Put vital commemoration projects, like the National Memorial for Canada’s War in Afghanistan, back on track.