There are plenty of academic subjects I don't feel comfortable teaching my high-school-aged son, and I honour teachers for their patience and dedication to educating the next generation.Collection: Patience
We must make good financial, environmental and economic decisions today, because it affects future generations.Collection: Environmental
The prosperity of our nation is intrinsically tied to our unity.
COVID has taught us some really harsh lessons about who our allies are and how much we can depend on our allies.
The human spirit may be muted, but it cannot be silenced.
We have a lot of international organizations encroaching on our freedoms and on our liberties and somebody with international experience that can dissect these treaties and understand how these treaties affect our sovereignty is very, very important.
I'm a very educated person and I do not care if somebody labels me a conspiracy theorist because it just means that they're not intelligent enough to argue with me.
I believe that the environment is a non-partisan issue, and that it should not be politicized.
Any international agreement that I believe meets the needs of our sovereign nation and meets our objectives I don't have a problem with.
I'm going to continue to get my message out there and I'm going to continue to send Canadians information and substantiate what I say with information, so Canadians can be informed about what their government is planning for them.
My children have helped give me purpose and made me a better lawyer. They have shown me the power of choosing life. And they are the reason I want to fight for all the women and girls who, like me, felt immense social pressures to have an abortion.
I want to make sure that the country that I was raised in and the opportunities that I had as a child are there for my children.
I think that the Conservative Party has to do better in reaching diverse communities, in letting people know that they're inclusive of people of all beliefs and persuasions and races and religions... People see the party as too white and too male, and they don't see diverse representation.
My personal view as a Christian is that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I don't push that view on someone else.
I believe that the issue of climate change is very complicated.
Haldimand-Norfolk is a beautiful place with the most amazing, hard-working people. It would be an absolute honour to represent them and fight to make their lives better.
To focus on what makes us different, whether that's race, gender or religion, rather than what we have in common, has never served to bring people together.
Because I understand the Constitution, I understand democratic ideals and our parliamentary system, it's an easy transition to then say 'OK, what are the principles that tie into these ideals?' and that's basically how I approach my policy.
I think that I have a very unique role in the party to play.
I truly believe that together we will continue to make Canada a welcoming and safe place for all.
The problem is that every time the ethics commissioner proves Trudeau has broken the rules, he just shrugs and moves on.
The only way to hold Justin Trudeau accountable is for voters to vote him out.
Canada is the best country in the world but that does not mean we have an opportunity to not make it better.
I didn't know I was a social conservative when I joined the party.
I always thought of myself a fiscal conservative, and that's what really brought me to the party. It wasn't really my social conservative value.
My family was inherently conservative in their values, in their belief system and how they conducted themselves from a fiscal and financial perspective, and a moral and ethical perspective.
Canada must remain a country where we can earn a fair wage, pay our bills without worry, and leave our children better off tomorrow than they are today.
New Canadians are coming from often traditional backgrounds, where they have a strong faith base and family is the core of their societies. Conservatives share that same value.
Many people of colour are coming to the party, but the media doesn't want to show that because they want to portray the image of Conservatives as people who are not embracing diversity.
If you look at large cities like the GTA, like large urban centers, you will see that the majority, a large number of people are from the immigrant population. And these individuals share Conservative values.
I believe in building bridges.
We don't need to talk about the things that divide us.
I support democracy.
To unite the country, we have to be able to sit across the table from people who don't think like us and have strong conversations about where our country needs to go for everybody to benefit.
I'm not an activist. I'm looking to effect policy, and that means I'm looking to effect policy that the majority of Canadians can agree with.
I don't hide who I am as a person who believes in the sanctity of life, and I don't hide my views on abortion, but as a policy-maker, my goal is to find things that unite us and that we can agree on.
I believe in being inclusive. I believe in being loving. I believe in nurturing individuals to be the best that they can be, whoever they are in society.
Too often, women find themselves in a position where they feel that the circumstances of life are pushing them to make a decision they don't want to make.
As a member of Parliament, I will be opposing the proposed illiberal, anti-women policy that would seek to strip charitable status from organizations that don't pass Justin Trudeau's values test.
I think that the Conservative party has to do better in reaching diverse communities... people see the party as too white and too male, and they don't see diverse representation.
As someone who grew up in a community filled with new Canadians and many visible minorities, let me say that I am not a victim in need of a political saviour, nor are the hard-working visible minorities of this great country.
When the media and even people within our own party treat minorities as a single voting block, it is a shocking display of identity politics and frankly, the kind of racism that is antithetical to our conservative values of freedom, merit and hard work.
There are individuals all across Canada who come from many different backgrounds and I am able to connect with them on an authentic values level.
A narrative of fear surrounds the issue of climate change, and it's being used to completely alter our way of life.
The requirement for small business owners to comply with ESG will completely cripple our local business sector with no measurable goals or proof as to how these practices will actually reduce carbon emissions.
One-size-fits-all response to a health crisis doesn't even work across Canada, let alone the entire globe.
It's not controversial to say that private donors come with private interests.
I am running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada because I see these opportunities for future generations falling away and I see our values being undermined - even within our own party.
Livestock farmers had to fight the Liberals' plan to put fat warning labels on ground beef and pork, while not doing so on patented artificial meat products that contain higher fats from canola and industrial seed oil, which is far worse than natural animal fat.
The push by some to eliminate natural meat is based on the fact that raising livestock is considered unsustainable and requires large amounts of land, thereby creating a large carbon footprint.