{"id":20975,"date":"2018-06-24T00:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=20975"},"modified":"2018-06-24T00:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T04:54:18","slug":"scheer-says-federal-conservatives-will-be-the-party-of-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/scheer-says-federal-conservatives-will-be-the-party-of-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheer says Federal Conservatives will be the \u201cparty of yes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Buoyed by the victory of Doug Ford and the Ontario PCs in the June 7 Provincial Election, Federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer was in Aurora on Monday night to keep the momentum going with the message that the Conservative party will be the \u201cParty of Yes\u201d to take on Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
\nMonday\u2019s rally, which was held at the Aurora branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, was not only a chance for Mr. Scheer to meet with local supporters, but also stand beside Aurora\u2019s two Federal Conservative candidates \u2014 Lois Brown in Newmarket-Aurora and Costas Menegakis in Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill \u2014 and congratulate the community\u2019s two newly-minted MPPs, Christine Elliott and Michael Parsa, on their decisive election victory.
\n\u201cA lot of you in this room must have worked yourselves really, really hard over the last 30-some-odd days to help send a strong PC government to Queen\u2019s Park,\u201d said Scheer, flanked by Brown, Menegakis, Elliott, and Parsa, as well as Richmond Hill\u2019s new MPP Daisy Wai.
\nDespite their efforts, however, Scheer stressed there was, from his perspective, much work to be done.
\n\u201cWe have a problem here in Canada because the architects of the last few years in Ontario have found a new home,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey are currently living in Ottawa, they are running the Federal government now and we need to do the same thing in Ottawa what voters of Ontario did. We are going to do that by working together. It is always when Conservatives work together that we win. It is always when we support each other to put the needs of people before government; when we attack problems from a Provincial and Federal level; the same set of philosophies that true prosperity comes from the free market, it doesn\u2019t come from government; that when a government protects the individual freedom\u2026we\u2019re always better off.\u201d
\nTo that end, Mr. Scheer took aim at the \u201ccarbon tax\u201d that Mr. Ford has promised to take off the table here in Ontario.
\n\u201cWe have been fighting the carbon tax in opposition since the last election and Justin Trudeau loves to say that over 80 per cent of Canadians live in a province that supports the carbon tax,\u201d said Mr. Scheer. \u201cWhen I heard Doug Ford start saying things like \u2018Help is on the way,\u2019 I thought to myself, \u2018Help is on the way to fight the carbon tax federally because we have a government now in Ontario that is going to fight the carbon tax with us.\u2019 It is great to have allies on what I believe will be one of the most important policy questions that Canadians will have to decide.\u201d
\nTough questions posed to the Federal Government regarding the \u201ccarbon tax\u201d have gone unanswered, he said, and that, he contended, smacks of \u201carrogance\u201d on the part of the Liberals. Yet, Conservatives \u201cbelieve in the common sense of the collective intelligence of voters\u201d in Ontario and Canada, and they are \u201cconfident that they will help dismantle the carbon tax.\u201d
\n\u201cConservatives will [put] common sense, policy based solutions forward in the next election,\u201d he said.
\nOne area to benefit from such a solution, he said, was immigration. Under the previous Conservative government, Mr. Scheer said Canada had \u201cthe most welcoming and inclusive\u201d immigration system that welcomed \u201cthe best and brightest from all over the world with a compassionate side to help those facing real persecution: those waiting in refugee camps for years or waiting to bring over a loved one or sponsor a family member.
\n\u201cI have been to New York State, I have been to North Dakota, people crossing over the border illegally are not facing persecution but they are skipping and making legitimate refugees and those who want to come to this country legally wait even longer,\u201d he said. \u201cConservatives will put the needs of those following the rules and coming to Canada legally first. We\u2019ll make sure those resources are going to go to help the world\u2019s most vulnerable.\u201d
\nOther common sense solutions will be applied to issues like debt.
\nBorrowing today means higher taxes tomorrow, and deficits in the billions are hard for Canadians to fathom, he said.
\n\u201c[Canadians] spend on their kids before they spend on themselves; they put money away for education; they make sure their kids can go into sports or get tutoring if they need it; they might go a few extra months before they buy a new suit or they go a few years before they buy a new car, all to make sure that the next generation has it better off than they do,\u201d said Mr. Scheer. \u201cThat look of pride on their face when they attend their kids\u2019 graduation knowing that they are going to go on to university or post-secondary thanks to all that hard work paying off. That is the exact opposite of what this Liberal government is doing. They are reaching into my children, your children, and your grandchildren\u2019s future and they are taking money today to spend on their failed political promises. Conservatives will put a stop to that, we will balance the budgets, that we stop taking prosperity from the next generation of Canadians.
\n\u201cThe Liberals have become the party of \u2018no\u2019. They have said no to our energy section which employs so many people from coast to coast. They have said no to all those people who have been out of work who want to go back to work developing and extracting Canada\u2019s natural resources. [They have said no to manufacturing sectors, construction sectors] by saying no to Energy East. They have said no to free market private sector solutions, they have said no to individual liberty and freedom by promising Canadians to sign an attestation to get summer jobs funding. Conservatives will be the party of yes: yes to big projects like Trans Mountain to get Canadian resources to market, without forcing you as the taxpayers to pay for it. We will allow private sector companies use shareholders\u2019 money build great projects, not put it all on the taxpayers.\u201d
\n\u201cRadical protestors\u201d are seen chaining themselves to trees to stop the export of energy resources, Mr. Scheer claimed, but they do not follow suit by lining \u201cup and down the St. Lawrence blocking tanker after tanker of foreign oil from Saudi Arabia, from Algeria, and even from the United States. Conservatives will make sure Canada\u2019s self-sufficient at energy.
\n\u201cI am under no illusion. It is going to be a big challenge going into the next election, but I know it can be done. The path to victory is getting wider and wider as more and more people realize that Justin Trudeau\u2019s policies hurt the very people he claims to want to help. It hurts young Canadians, new entrants into the workforce and unskilled workers who haven\u2019t yet developed the skills they need, when government chases away investment and makes it harder for businesses to operate here.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buoyed by the victory of Doug Ford and the Ontario PCs in the June 7 Provincial Election, Federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer was in Aurora on Monday night to keep the momentum going with the message that the Conservative party will be the \u201cParty of Yes\u201d to take on Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-06-21-02.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-5sj","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-05 22:30:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}