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| Happy New Year! I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year break and got to enjoy time with your family and loved ones. As I look forward to 2026, I see many challenges that face Canada – a weak economy, huge deficits along with a rapidly growing national debt, a Liberal government that still has not delivered a promised trade agreement with the US, international events that have effects on our country, and more. However, I also see opportunity for Canada. Opportunities that the Liberals have squandered over the last 10 years. The development and export of Canada’s natural resources is our clear advantage in the world. Yet, the Liberals have led us over a cliff and the downfall is worsening under PM Carney. We have the capacity to reverse this trend but we have to be clear to the world that Canada is committed to being a responsible resource producer. That responsibility includes continuing our environmental commitment, but also committing to sell our resources to the world. Parliament will resume sitting at the end of January and we will continue to debate the Budget Implementation Act as well as continuing our work to amend, delay or defeat the bills that have been forward by the Liberals that criminalize free speech, reduce religious freedom and so much more. There is lots of work ahead of us and I hope to keep hearing from you on how I and my Conservative colleagues are doing in that work.In your service, |
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| Jasraj Hallan Member of Parliament Calgary East |
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| Canada Needs to Develop New Resource Export Options! World events have been buffeting Canada but the Liberal government has had its head in the sand for the last 10 years, but don’t worry their elbows are up. Billions of dollars of potential investment has been cancelled because of their anti-development policies. The Liberals have placed Canada in our weakest economic position in decades. Our resource strengths were seen as weaknesses by the Liberals and they blocked investment that would have created tens of thousands of jobs and generated billions of necessary tax revenue that could have gone into our schools and hospitals. (See the graphic below) I want to put that in perspective, the Liberals have been discouraging investment into the most valuable export that Canada possesses. Talk about killing the goose that lays golden eggs. They have also locked Canada into a dependence on the American market. Does that make sense to you? Me either. If Canada can immediately approve a pipeline to the NW Coast of BC and get construction moving immediately, we can find new markets for oil and other resource products. Meanwhile, the Liberals still have not said whether they approve of such a pipeline. While they dither, Canada burns. The Official Opposition has a plan to unblock our economy and get Canada working again. See Pierre Poilievre’s video on the subject here. |
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 From The Mailbox Here is a list of issues I received correspondence on from the community during the past month. Here goes … budget, tariffs, increasing deficit/debt, inflation, flight attendants pay, religious freedom, pipelines, national security, AI regulation, cloned meat classification, youth unemployment, unrest in Iran, Venezuela, investment in Canada’s resources, pharmacare, education costs, auto industry, energy transition, EV mandates, addictions, immigration delays, medical assistance in dying (MAiD), disability benefits, leadership, online privacy, housing costs, crime, Canada/US relations, wildfire management, censorship, cyber security Israel/Gaza situation, arms exports, Canada Post, red tape reduction, firearms laws, gun buyback, animal welfare, live horse exports, military spending, government spending, taxes, wasteful foreign aid, immigration levels, visa delays, government service levels and grocery costs. Due to the volume of mail and the variety of issues, we appreciate your patience in awaiting a response. If you’ve written to me, thank you—your input shapes our work. Please continue sharing your thoughts. |
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| Scrap Food Taxes Mark Carney said that Canadians should judge him by the cost at the grocery store. Well, this week, Statistics Canada released the latest figures that continue to show just how bad it’s gotten under the Liberals: Strawberries up 39.6% YTD Roasted or ground coffee up 33.6% YTD Beef striploin cuts up 37.7% YTDGround beef up 18.8% YTD Pork shoulder cuts up 27.5% YTD Iceberg lettuce up 33.7% YTD Romaine lettuce up 26.4% Carney’s $78.3 billion deficit will only pour additional fuel on this inflationary fire because every dollar the Prime Minister spends comes out of the pockets of Canadians. Dollars you work hard for and the Liberals are wasting on bureaucracy. My colleagues and I put forward a motion to bring down the cost of food by cutting: The Liberal industrial carbon tax. The Liberal food packaging tax. The Liberal fuel standard that adds 17 cents per litre of gas. And reversing inflationary Liberal deficits. The Liberals voted against these changes. |
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