{"id":25006,"date":"2019-10-18T19:14:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T23:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=25006"},"modified":"2019-10-18T19:14:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T23:14:30","slug":"conservative-lois-brown-looks-to-regain-communitys-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/conservative-lois-brown-looks-to-regain-communitys-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Lois Brown looks to regain community\u2019s support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Four years ago, incumbent Lois Brown lost the 2015\nFederal Election by less than 1,500 votes to rookie Kyle Peterson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, after what she describes as \u201cquite a deliberation\u201d,\nMs. Brown is looking flip the riding blue again and return to Ottawa as\nNewmarket-Aurora\u2019s Conservative Member of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel in my core I have more work to do,\u201d Ms. Brown\ntells The Auroran. \u201cI have all my life been a very active person, very involved\nin serving the community, and the opportunity to do that as a Member of\nParliament, where I can help people, really help people, and resolve issues\njust compelled me to go back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helping to spur her decision to throw her hat back into\nthe political arena is what she says are budget overruns under the incumbent\nLiberal government which won\u2019t be balanced for decades if things continue as\nthey are<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is distressing to me that my kids are the ones who\nare going to be paying this bill for the rest of their lives,\u201d she says. \u201cI\nhear the issue of \u2018affordability\u2019 at the door every day. I talk to people who\nsay, \u2018Look, we\u2019re not badly off, we\u2019re both working, we have reasonably good\njobs, but we just can\u2019t get ahead.\u2019 I don\u2019t want that for my kids, and I don\u2019t\nwant that for anybody\u2019s kids. I want our young people to have opportunity for\ngrowth and opportunity for success. That\u2019s one of the reasons I am driven.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, affordability is one of Ms. Brown\u2019s top issues in\nthis campaign. A factor in that, she notes, is the Liberals\u2019 plan for carbon\npricing and changes to the tax system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs Conservatives we\u2019re going to be talking about that,\u201d\nshe says. \u201cIt was a Conservative initiative to put the Child Tax Benefit in\nplace, but with the changes that have happened, fewer and fewer people are\nactually getting the full amount of the Child Tax Benefit, so it is costing\nthem more to raise their children. At the same time that Justin Trudeau said,\n\u2018We\u2019re going to give you a little bit more than what the Conservatives say they\nwill give you,\u2019 they took away all of the tax credits that actually allowed\nfamilies to reduce their taxable income. They removed the Child Tax Credit for\nsports, for the arts, from textbooks, which is making our university kids have\nto pay more for their education. They removed the transportation tax credit.\nAll of those things are areas that are reducing the cost of living for ordinary\nCanadian families. We want to see those things come back. We believe they are\ngood for families, and we believe families know best how to spend their money\nfor what is in their own best interests of their family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Ms. Brown states the Conservatives will scrap the\n\u201ccarbon tax,\u201d she says she is an environmentalist at heart. A native of\nKettleby, she says she grew up in a home with a chemical engineer father who\ntaught her that engineers \u201clearn to do more with less.\u201d There has never been a\ntime where she didn\u2019t recycle, she says, nor when she didn\u2019t \u201cshop in her\nsister\u2019s closet all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe always composted, always reused, and it is time that\nwe ensured that individuals are tasked with their own responsibilities,\u201d she\nsays. \u201c(Husband) Kelvin and I often walk the trails and I find it so sad\nwalking through the part through East Gwillimbury and we weren\u2019t 400 yards down\nthe trail and there was somebody\u2019s Tim Hortons\u2019 cup sitting in the crook of the\ntree. I think we have to invest personal responsibility because that\u2019s what\u2019s\nreally going to make a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have suggested the Conservative party that we need to\nhave a program where we are planting trees. Aurora has been, unfortunately,\nattacked a lot by the Emerald Ash borer and we have seen the pine needle beetle\nhere as well. We have lost a lot of our foliage. I would love to see a program\nthrough our Federal government that says, \u2018You know, we\u2019re going to plant a\nmillion trees and work with our municipalities to ensure that that happens.\u2019 I\ndon\u2019t think we can dictate where they go or what kind, but certainly\nmunicipalities to ensure that those things happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Federal election is shaping up to be one of clear\nand distinct visions for Canada and, in the run-up to last week\u2019s election\ncall, the Liberals have been trying to sell a message that a vote for\nConservative leader Andrew Scheer is a vote for Doug Ford-style politics. This\nis a claim Ms. Brown rejects outright, branding them \u201cscare tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet Justin Trudeau run against Andrew Scheer,\u201d she says,\nnoting the Liberal leader is not running against the Ontario Premier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Liberals are always going to try and paint the\nConservatives with all kinds of scare and accusation,\u201d says Ms. Brown. \u201cThey\nare trying to be scare mongers with all kinds of issues and accuse Andrew\nScheer of all kinds of issues that aren\u2019t on the agenda for the Conservative\nparty. We have a 15-year history of the Conservative party, doing exactly what\nwe said we were going to do and let them accuse. We are going to stand firm on\nthe things that we know Canadians need to have done.\u201d <\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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