Lowering Taxes

• Cut income taxes by 15%, by dropping the tax rate on the lowest income tax bracket from 15% to 12.75%. This means the average Canadian worker earning $57,000 will save $900, while two income families could save $1,800 a year.

  • Everyone who pays income tax will pay less, but because the rate will be cut on the lowest income bracket, modest-income Canadians will enjoy the most savings.

• Eliminate the consumer and industrial carbon taxes.

  • The Liberals have reduced the consumer carbon tax rate to zero through a Cabinet decision, but that allows them to raise the rate again, at any time, to any level, simply by making another Cabinet decision. To repeal the carbon tax law, Parliament must be recalled and the legislation repealed. That is what Conservatives will do, so that consumers can rely on the tax actually being gone, not just paused.

  • Conservatives will also repeal the tax on Canada’s businesses and industries including steel, aluminum, natural gas, food production, concrete and others. In light of potential U.S. tariffs, a carbon tax is just another expense that Canadian companies can’t afford if they are to compete.

  • Instead, we will use technology - not taxes - to protect the environment, including incentives to those who bring down emissions. By expanding eligibility for the clean technology and clean manufacturing investment tax credits, we will reward heavy industries that make products with lower emissions than the world average.

• For example, Canada's industry produces two tons of emissions to produce one ton of aluminum while one ton of Chinese aluminum produces 12 tons of emissions, more than six times as much. So every time a Canadian business produces aluminum, it displaces many tons of foreign emissions.

• Reverse the increases to the capital gains tax.

• Remove the GST on Canadian made automobiles

• Within 60 days of forming government, bring together entrepreneurs, inventors, farmers and workers to design a tax cut to lower taxes on energy, work, homebuilding, investment and making stuff in Canada

• Reduce paperwork by 20% by simplifying tax rules

• Roll back the automatic annual increases on beer, wine and spirits to 2017 levels, and cancel future automatic increases.

Responsible Resource Policy

Incredibly, Canada can’t deliver most of our energy to the world without going through the USA. Worse, we cannot even deliver our own oil to ourselves.

Western Canadian oil must travel through the United States to get to Ontario and Quebec. Americans have even threatened to shut down the flow of Canadian oil to Canadian customers. An east coast Canadian export port is out of reach. And with the third largest proven oil reserves in the world, we nonetheless have historically imported close to $20 billion per year (1988 to 2020 averages) of oil from places including Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Algeria, Angola, Iraq and Venezuela.

Prime Minister Trudeau famously said there is no business case for selling our natural gas to countries like Germany, Japan, Greece, and others who were begging for it. Now the Americans and Qataris are beating us to the punch with sales agreements.

Consequently, we sell all our natural gas exports to the Americans at roughly $1.45 per million British Thermal Units (2024), instead of selling it to Europe or Asia for $13 to $16.

A common sense resource plan under the Conservatives would:

• repeal the unconstitutional No-New-Pipelines Law (C-69); within 60 days of forming government, and replace it with a new law that protects nature while getting projects approved within a year of an application.

• rapidly approve LNG plants, pipelines, mines and other major projects.

• green light federal permits for the Ring of Fire in Northern Ontario to harvest chromite, cobalt, nickel, copper and platinum. In the last decade, the timeline from getting a permit to explore to getting a mine built has increased by 10 years to a total of about 26 years. That has Canada amongst the longest regulatory paths in the world.

• support a national West-to-East pipeline from the prairies to Saint John, New Brunswick

Honouring Canadians

• Honour the brave Canadians who fought in Afghanistan by building a suitable monument; strengthen penalties for those who tear down or deface Canadian symbols; and restore Canadian heroes like Terry Fox, the Famous Five, and Indigenous peoples to the passport design.

• Restore in-person citizenship ceremonies and add the following words to the existing oath: “I pledge gratitude to those who worked, sacrificed, and gave their lives to defend the freedom I now enjoy and to build the country of Canada I now call home. Like them, I pledge to fulfill my duties as a Canadian citizen.”

Responding to US Tariff Threats

Canada is the United States’ closest neighbour, greatest ally and best friend. There is no justification for President Trump’s aggressive treatment of Canada. But we must respond to protect our country.

Conservatives will pass Canada First legislation that will:

1. Respond with tariffs carefully aimed at maximizing impact on American companies while minimizing impact on Canadians. That means targeting U.S. products that we can make ourselves, buy elsewhere, or do without.

2. Put all the tariff revenues into help for affected workers and businesses; Government should not keep a dime of the new revenue.

3. Pass an emergency tax cut to bolster the economy, slow inflation, and save and create jobs. The carbon tax and capital gains tax hikes must be the first to go.

4. Immediately scrap the anti-resource law C-69 (“no more pipelines” bill) and greenlight LNG plans, pipelines, mines, factories, and port expansions, so we can sell and send our valuable products to diversified overseas markets.

5. Bring in truly free trade within Canada by knocking down interprovincial barriers to help replace lost north-south trade with east-west trade and to make us more self-reliant. More detail below.

6. Rebuild our military and take back control of our borders to regain the confidence of our partners, assert our sovereignty, protect our people, and put Canada First. More detail below.

Securing our Borders

There are three major problems at Canada’s borders:

Drugs

49,000 Canadians have died of opioid overdoses in the last nine years, with many of the deadly drug ingredients imported from China and Mexico. In British Columbia, police discovered a superlab containing enough fentanyl and materials to make as many as 95 million doses.

Only 1% of shipping containers are inspected coming into our country, allowing drugs and guns to sneak through in the other 99%.

Guns

Under this government, gun-related crime is up 116%. The Toronto Police Association says that 85% of gun offenders use illegal firearms brought across our border from the United States.

Criminals and Terrorists

This government has let multiple criminals into Canada. They admit they have lost count of the number of people who are in Canada illegally. One government report guess-timated it could be between 20,000 and 500,000 people.

A Conservative Six-Point Strategy:

1. Call up Canadian Forces troops to temporarily patrol the border with military helicopters and surveillance. Do it now, while permanent measures are under development.

2. Add at least 2,000 border agents.

3. Extend CBSA powers along the entire border, not just crossings.

4. Install border surveillance towers as well as truck-mounted drone systems to spot border incursions.

5. Install high-powered scanners at all major land crossings and shipping ports - scanners that can see through container walls or vehicles to spot drugs, guns and stolen vehicles.

6. Track departures so government officials know which deportees are still in Canada illegally.

   To pay for these measures, Conservatives will scrap the failed gun buyback from legal owners, which after four years and $67 million, has not yet taken a single gun off the streets. Ending this will save a planned $600 million expense.

   We will also cut the $21 billion a year in pricey outside consultants, and phase out thousands of back-office bureaucratic jobs through attrition. Under this government, the public service has grown by 110,000 jobs - about 41%.

Lowering Interprovincial Trade Barriers

Interprovincial barriers to trade cost the Canadian economy - and consumers. It is one of the first places we can and should take action to insulate our own economy from outside threats. Conservatives have proposed the following strategy:

1. Bring the Premiers together to agree on removing as many exemptions as possible that block movement of goods and services between provinces.

2. Prioritize an agreement on one standard set of trucking rules to get billions of dollars of goods moving east-west instead of only north-south. This move alone would boost GDP by $1.6 billion.

3. Create a Blue Seal Professional Licensing Standard so doctors, nurses and engineers can work in all provinces and territories, and Canadians trained abroad can quickly get certified and working by meeting consistent Canadian standards.

4. Offer provinces a Free Trade Bonus: every trade barrier removed will generate more GDP and revenue. This increased tax revenue will go to provinces. As this bonus would only be paid out of boosted government revenues from free trade, it would not add to the massive deficit.

Arctic Sovereignty

This video reveals the extent to which our neighbour Russia is expanding its military presence in the far north. Even more surprising is that Beijing has now declared the PRC a “near Arctic state”, and is visiting our waters uninvited.

The reason is simple: they covet a northern sea passage for shipping. They likely also want access to our valuable resources. They know Canada isn’t strong enough to defend our own waters and northern lands. And we can no longer depend upon the United States to do it for us.

The Conservative Party has released a plan to shore up Canada’s presence in our Arctic territories and put Canada first:

• Double the size of the 1st Patrol Group of the Canadian Rangers, from 2,000 to 4,000 Rangers.  

  The Canadian Rangers provide self-sufficient mobile forces to support the military. Doubling the number of Rangers will ensure they can continue to report suspicious and unusual activities while providing local knowledge and expertise.

• Acquire two additional polar icebreakers for the Royal Canadian Navy.

  This is in addition to delivering the two polar icebreakers the Seaspan and Davie shipyards are now building for the Coast Guard. We will get those finished by 2029 for a total of four icebreaking ships.

• Build at least one permanent Arctic military base within two years.

  Iqaluit already has a Forward Operating Location and a functional airport and seaport that can accommodate the Royal Canadian Air Force. The base will be able to host a full RCAF wing to launch and land new F-35 fighter jets to deter, intercept, and destroy threats, and land Poseidon P8 aircraft to carry out search and rescue, anti-submarine warfare, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) work.

Cracking Down Hard on Drug Kingpins

Conservatives are committed to mandatory life sentences for anyone involved in the production and distribution of over 40mg of fentanyl.

Organized crime “superlabs” produce drugs that are killing Canadians, and being sent abroad, including to the United States and Australia. One lab found by RCMP in British Columbia had supplies sufficient to manufacture as many as 95 million doses!

Just 2mg is enough to kill a person, so 40mg could kill 20 people. Those who produce and traffic this drug should be punished as killers.

We would also mandate 15 years for traffickers caught with 20mg to 40mg.

More Canadians have now died of drug overdoses than died fighting for Canada in the Second World War. The Liberal-NDP government eliminated mandatory jail time in Bill C-5 for drug lords. We will reverse that irresponsible decision.

Shovel Ready Construction Zones

Conservatives will streamline the process for getting shovels in the ground for major projects by creating “Shovel Ready Zones” in advance.

• These zones will be already permitted for construction, meaning the permits will not just take less time, but will already be largely completed when a project is proposed for that site.

• Canada Shovel Ready Zones will be prepared by: 

1. Identifying a location that makes sense for a power station, LNG plant, pipeline, or another major project.

1. Making sure it is safe for Canadians and the environment. 

1. Working with other levels of government to lock down zoning and permits in advance of construction. 

1. Offer pre-permitting before even getting an application so that permits could be published online with a checklist that businesses would have to complete in order to protect nature and people.

• This means businesses could buy the land, move in, hire people and build, knowing they will already have the permits. 

• Canada should be the richest country in the world. But after the Lost Liberal Decade, government gatekeepers have blocked projects that bring paycheques to workers.

1. It takes more than 17 years to get the average mine approved and built in Canada.

1. We have the second slowest permits in the OECD. 

1. In the first 5 years of this Liberal government, $176 billion of resource and energy projects were cancelled, mostly due to government obstacles and rules.

• These projects would have made us more self-reliant and less dependent on the United States.

More Boots, Less Suits: Training Canadian Workers

The Conservative Bring It Home Economic Plan includes more training halls, direct grants and faster EI to apprentices in the licensed trades to deliver powerful paycheques and make us less dependent on the Americans:

• Reinstate apprenticeship grants of up to $4,000. The previous Conservative government created these grants, but the Carney-Trudeau Liberals will cancel it at the end of this month, leaving Canadian workers behind.  

• Fund training halls that will skill up 350,000 young workers over 5 years by expanding the Union Training and Innovation Program (UTIP). Conservatives will make sure the actual buildings and centres where these people get trained are also eligible for UTIP funding. Smaller unions will also have equal access to funding that covers as much as 75% of the costs of building and running these programs.

• Create a special class of rapid EI payout for skilled tradespeople by allowing union training centers and colleges to pre-register apprentices for EI. Trades workers will now quickly get support they are entitled to. 

• Work with the provinces to harmonize health and safety regulations so our tradespeople can work anywhere in Canada without redundant retraining. 

Canada’s economy has never been more weak and reliant on the Americans. Liberal economic vandalism has resulted in the worst decline in Canadians' standard of living in forty years. Carpenters who build our homes can no longer afford to buy them; out-of-control Carney-Trudeau spending has resulted in Canada’s middle class paying more taxes now than when the Liberals came to power a decade ago. All of this before the tariffs began. Now they expect to be rewarded with a fourth term in power to do even more damage.

We will pay for these investments by reducing the bloated federal government bureaucracy including a 41% increase in public servants since 2015, and $21 billion a year in (often sole-sourced) contracts to (often) Liberal insider consultants.

Targeting Offshore Corporate Tax Avoidance

You pay your taxes. But some wealthy Canadians and big corporations have the resources to dodge their full tax bill - like stashing cash in places like Bermuda, where Brookfield Asset Management (the company Mark Carney chaired) parked at least $25 billion in a little office above a bike shop.

Bermuda has no corporate income tax (Canada's rate is 15%) nor several other taxes paid by corporations in Canada. That’s some $4 Billion in avoided taxes that could have been spent in Canada on needed services, tax relief, or debt reduction.

Conservatives will end this two-tier tax system by:

• Tasking the already announced Bring It Home Tax Task Force to ensure that we close all the loopholes that allow companies like Brookfield to stash their money in offshore tax havens to avoid paying their fair share here in Canada.

• Redirecting CRA resources away from auditing and harassing small business owners and charities towards cracking down on offshore tax havens.

• Creating a name-and-shame website to expose all the wealthy multinational corporations that are dodging taxes and refusing to pay their fair share. 

• Expanding the Offshore Tax Informant Program, giving whistleblowers up to 20% of recovered funds when they help expose illegal tax schemes.

• Mark Carney stashed his Brookfield funds in Bermuda—one of the world’s most notorious tax havens, considered one of the top three places to stash cash.

• According to KPMG, Bermuda has no capital gains tax, dividend tax, or withholding tax, making it one of the most attractive tax havens for the global rich who want to avoid the taxes paid by the rest of us.

While Carney advised Trudeau to hike taxes on working Canadians, he made sure his company’s profits stayed offshore, beyond the reach of the CRA.

Last year alone, the Liberals wrote off $5 billion in corporate taxes—including $1 billion for just five companies - rather than diligently ensure the companies paid up. Meanwhile, the CRA was busy auditing small businesses and charities - for comparatively small amounts.

When did the CRA last write off taxes you owed?.

A Poilievre government will end Carney’s two-tier tax system, where elites get loopholes and working people get audited. 

Helping 50,000 People Recover from Drug Dependency

Conservatives will invest in recovery, cut off federal funding for opioids, and defund drug dens, so we can bring our loved ones home drug free. 

• Fund treatment for 50,000 Canadians in treatment centres with a proven record of success at getting people off drugs. Funding will follow results.

• Ban taxpayer-funded drug dens from being located within 500 metres of schools, daycares, playgrounds, parks, and seniors’ homes and impose strict new oversight rules.

• Crack down on the Liberals’ reckless experiments with free access to illegal drugs that allow provinces to operate drug sites with no oversight. 

• Pause any new federal exemptions until evidence justifies they support recovery.

• Require existing federal sites to focus on connecting users with treatment, meet stricter regulatory standards, or be shut down. 

• End the exemption for fly-by-night provincially-regulated sites. 

• To fund this policy, a Conservative government will stop federal funding for opioids, defund federal drug dens, and sue the opioid manufacturers and consulting companies who created this crisis in the first place.

• More than 50,000 people have lost their lives to fentanyl since 2015—more Canadians than died in the Second World War.

• In British Columbia, where the Liberals decriminalized dangerous drugs like fentanyl and meth, drug overdose deaths increased by 200 percent. 

• The Liberals also pursued a radical experiment of taxpayer-funded hard drugs, which are often diverted and resold to children and other vulnerable Canadians.

•  The Vancouver Police Department has said that roughly half of all hydromorphone seizures were diverted from this hard drugs program.

• The Waterloo Regional Police Service and Niagara Regional Police Service said that hydromorphone seizures had exploded by 1,090% and 1,577%, respectively.

• Despite the death and despair that is now common on our streets, bizarrely Mark Carney told a room of Liberal supporters that 50,000 fentanyl deaths in Canada is not “a crisis.”

• He hand-picked a Liberal candidate who said the Liberals “would be smart to lean into drug decriminalization” and another who said “legalizing all drugs would be good for Canada.” 

• Carney's star candidate Gregor Robertson, an early advocate of decriminalization and so-called safe supply, wanted drug dens imposed on communities without any consultation or public safety considerations.

• During his disastrous tenure as Vancouver Mayor, overdoses increased by 600%. 

• We will treat addiction with compassion and accountability—not with more taxpayer-funded poison. 

• We will turn hurt into hope by shutting down drug dens, restoring order in our communities, funding real recovery, and bringing our loved ones home drug-free.

Tougher Penalties for Intimate Partner Violence

Conservatives will address intimate partner violence by keeping abusers off the street and behind bars to protect the most vulnerable Canadians. 

1. Create a new offence of “assault of an intimate partner” to deliver tougher sentences for anyone who abuses an intimate partner.

2. Require the strictest bail conditions for anyone accused of intimate partner violence, including GPS ankle bracelet monitoring, with any breach of conditions resulting in immediate imprisonment. 

3. End the senseless practice of downgrading the murder of an intimate partner to manslaughter, simply because the murderer claims it was a so-called “crime of passion”. A Conservative government will make sure that the murder of an intimate partner, one’s own child, or a partner’s child will be treated as first-degree murder.

Every two and a half days, a woman is murdered in Canada and in over half of these cases, the murderer is their partner. In 2023 alone, 123,319 people aged 12 and older reported intimate partner violence to police. It wasn’t always like this. From 2009 to 2014, family violence and intimate partner violence were on the decline, with 2014 marking the lowest rate ever recorded in Canada.

Since 2015, Canada has witnessed a violent crime wave. Family and intimate partner violence is up 19 percent while sexual assaults and sexual violations against children are up 75 percent and 119 percent, respectively. 

The problem is made worse by soft-on-crime, catch-and-release laws, which let violent offenders back into our communities to offend again. This has tipped the scales of justice in favour of criminals instead of their victims and law-abiding Canadians with disastrous results. 

A new Conservative Government will lock up violent abusers so they cannot hurt their victims or anyone else.

Ending the Wave of Violent Crime

Conservatives will end the Liberal wave of violent crime by passing a Three-Strikes-and-You’re-Out Law. This law will stop criminals convicted of three serious offences from getting bail, probation, parole or house arrest, and keep violent criminals behind bars longer to keep them away from their victims and off our streets.

Three-time serious criminals will get a minimum prison term of 10 years and up to a life sentence. They will also be designated as Dangerous Offenders, meaning they cannot be released until they prove they are no longer a danger. The only way for these repeat serious criminals to obtain their freedom will be through spotless behaviour and clean drug tests during a lengthy minimum prison sentence, with earned release dependent on improving themselves and their life opportunities, such as by learning a trade or upgrading their education.

• As a result of the Lost Liberal Decade, violent crime has skyrocketed by 50 percent.

• Gun crime is up 116 percent.

• Gang homicides have soared by 78 percent,

• Extortion is up 357 percent.

• Auto theft is up 46 percent,

This crime wave was no accident. The Liberals introduced radical catch-and-release policies like Bill C-5, which allows some of the worst offenders to serve their sentences at home, and Bill C-75, which lets rampant criminals go free within hours of their arrest. 

The result has been a disaster for Canadian communities. 

• In Saskatchewan in 2022, Myles Sanderson went on a spree, killing 11 people and injuring 17 more. Sanderson was out on “statutory release” after 59 prior convictions for assault, robbery, mischief and uttering threats. FIFTY. NINE. CONVICTIONS. If he had been kept in jail where he belonged, those 11 precious Canadians would still be alive. 

• Last year, investigators in Peel Region made 18 arrests in connection with a string of home invasions, armed robberies and carjackings, with over $1.2 million worth of stolen vehicles recovered. Of the 18, half were out on bail. 

• In Vancouver, police had to arrest the same 40 offenders 6,000 times. And in 2022, 256 people were charged with homicide while out on release. 

Lowering Home Prices

The Conservative plan incentivizes municipalities to cut building taxes while taking sales tax off for $100,000 savings per home. 

On top of axing the GST sales tax on new homes, a Conservative government will incentivize municipalities to cut building taxes, for a total savings of $100,000 on an average home in Canada’s big cities. For every dollar of relief a municipality offers in development charges, a Conservative government will reimburse 50%, up to a maximum of $50,000 in savings for new homebuyers. 

Conservatives will also eliminate the sales tax on new homes under $1.3 million, which will save homebuyers up to $65,000. Combining the two policies will lower the cost of a new home by up to $115,000. For an average home in the GTA or Vancouver, the savings will be approximately $100,000.

Conservatives will also require cities to publicly disclose their development charges and explain how the federal reimbursement will be used so Canadians can hold municipalities accountable when they build bureaucracy instead of homes.

Taxes and development charges are now more than 30% of new home costs in Ontario and British Columbia. In Toronto, development charges skyrocketed from under $30,000 to nearly $140,000 during the Lost Liberal Decade, and across Canada, they’ve increased by $27,000 in just two years. These government charges are passed on to homebuyers, turning the dream of homeownership into a nightmare for everyday workers and young Canadians.

During the Lost Liberal Decade, with Mark Carney as their economic advisor, housing costs in Canada doubled, rising faster than in any other G7 country. It now takes longer to save for a down payment than it does to pay off a mortgage. And 80% of Canadians now believe homeownership is only possible for the rich.

Mark Carney is recycling the same old Liberal promises that didn’t work for the last decade. He says these Liberal policies will make housing affordable, but under the Liberals, costs have doubled. As usual with Liberals, Carney thinks more government is the answer. He says he wants the government to build homes, but his plan will just add more bureaucracy to a government that can’t get anything built and can’t even issue passports on time. Carney and the Liberals have no plan to actually help people buy their own homes.

Continuing the Health Care and Child Care Programs

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has confirmed that under a Conservative government, no one who is receiving dental care or pharmacare benefits will lose those benefits.

• He also confirmed that a Conservative government will honour the agreements with the provinces for $10 a day child care, but will also make revisions to make the program less bureaucratic and more flexible for families whose circumstances don’t fit into the current rigid guidelines.

• Mr. Poilievre also confirmed that Conservatives will not raise the retirement age (for CPP, GIS and OAS) beyond age 65.

• Our opponents claim that Conservatives will cut these programs and raise the retirement age. It is not true. Period.

Building More Homes

To incent the construction of more homes, and make them more affordable, Conservatives will eliminate the GST on new homes valued at $1.3 million or less (GST is not currently charged on resale homes, only new ones).

• This would save new homebuyers up to $65,000 on the purchase of an average home in one of the big cities where typical prices reach and exceed $1 million;

• It would also save up to $3,000 in a year in mortgage payments due to the lower purchase price of the home.

• It is expected to incent 36,000 new homes built every year.

• That construction activity will raise an extra $2.52 billion in income tax revenue from those trades workers and home builders, which helps pay for the tax cut.

• This policy contrasts with the Liberal policy which caps the benefit at homes priced at $1 million, and applies to first time buyers only. It is hard to believe that many first-time buyers can afford a $1 million home, so the Liberal policy is very narrow in scope.

• Conservatives would fund this homebuyers’ tax cut by eliminating $8 billion of the Liberals’ bureaucratic housing schemes that have only driven up housing prices (at last count, the Liberals had 53 different niche housing programs!).

• Conservatives will also incentivize municipalities to free up land, speed up permits and cut development charges to build 15% more homes each year.

• Ten years ago, the average family would allocate 39% of their budget to shelter costs. Today, after runaway inflation and housing shortages, that number has reached 60% for many families. In some jurisdictions, government fees and mandatory costs amount to about one-third of the price of a home. GST is one of those add-on taxes.

Help for Workers who Travel to the Jobsite

A new Conservative government will end tax breaks for luxury corporate jets and instead, let trades workers claim the full cost of their travel.

• Anyone who must travel more than 120 km from their ordinary place of residence to a job site will be able to deduct their expenses for food, transportation and accommodation.

• Write-offs for luxury corporate jets will be ended. Corporations will only be able to write off the equivalent of a commercial flight. 

• Charter flights needed to get workers to remote job sites will not be impacted by this change.

Canada First Reinvestment Tax Cut

Any person or business selling an asset will pay no capital gains tax if they reinvest the proceeds in Canada.

• Companies that reinvest in active Canadian businesses can also defer any capital gains tax. 

• These gains will still be taxed later when investors cash out or move the money out of Canada. 

• This tax cut will be available for any capital gains reinvested between July 1, 2025, and December 31, 2026. 

• If it causes a major economic boom, as expected, Conservatives will make it permanent. 

• The Canada First Reinvestment Tax Cut will incentivize investors—from small business owners, to farmers, to homebuilders—to reinvest and build things here in Canada. 

• These investments will rebuild our industry, restart our economy and allow us to become self-reliant and sovereign from the Americans, and stand up to Trump’s threats from a position of strength.

• In 2023 alone, $460 billion in investment fled Canada—$11,500 per Canadian–money that should have been building homes, creating jobs, and growing our economy. This policy will result in more Canadians investing in ourselves and replacing some of the investment dollars that the Liberals chased out of Canada.  

Speed Up Redevelopment of the Port at Churchill

Conservatives have pledged to take quick action on previous promises to redevelop the port at Churchill, Manitoba to get more products moving. Infrastructure development is critical to Canada’s economic resilience, but too many projects are mired in endless bureaucracy.

• Conservatives will respect the “One and Done” principle: one environmental review, one simple application, and in the case of large-scale industrial projects, no more than one year to get a permit.

• The government also needs to develop a realistic plan to export from Churchill, whether by rail or pipeline, but it won’t happen under a Liberal government.

• The provincial government of Manitoba has announced $36.4 million in funding to help upgrade the port’s rail lines and infrastructure. Churchill could export critical minerals, such as from the “Ring of Fire” which Conservatives have also pledged to develop. In 2024, the port began shipping zinc.

Build an Infrastructure National Corridor

There's no question Canada today can't get anything built, let alone in a timely way.

Conservatives will create a National Energy Corridor to fast-track approvals for critical infrastructure in a pre-approved transport corridor entirely within Canada.

• It will allow for transmission lines, railways, pipelines, and other infrastructure, transporting our resources within Canada and to the world while bypassing the United States.

• This will bring billions of dollars of new investment into Canada, create good jobs, and restore our economic independence.

• During the Lost Liberal Decade, Canada cancelled 16 major energy projects, resulting in a $176 billion hit to our economy.

• The Liberals killed Northern Gateway and Energy East, and passed Bill C-69, the "No-New-Pipelines" law, which makes it all but impossible to build the pipelines and energy infrastructure we need.

• In 2024, Canada exported 98% of its crude oil to the United States. This leaves us too dependent on the Americans.

• The choice is clear: a fourth Liberal term that will keep our resources in the ground and keep us weak and vulnerable to Trump’s threats.

• Or a strong new Conservative government that will approve projects, build an economic fortress, bring jobs and dollars home, and put Canada First—For a Change.

Commitment to the Energy Sector

Pierre Poilievre has committed to meeting all of the policy recommendations from Canada’s energy sector to end dependence on the U.S. market and unleash Canada’s economy, He has challenged Mark Carney to do the same.

• If Mark Carney is serious about restoring Canada’s economic independence, he would repudiate his radical commitment to “keep it in the ground” and commit to these Conservative solutions: 

• Repeal the “No-New-Pipelines" Law (C-69) and the Tanker Ban (C-48) so we can build new pipelines and LNG terminals to export our energy overseas, ending our economic dependence on the United States.

• Six-Month Approvals: set a target for decisions on resource project applications within six months. 

• Scrap the job-killing energy cap on Canadian growth, and approve and build major new projects fast.

• Axe the Industrial Carbon tax to take the tax off Canadian steel, aluminum, natural gas, food production, concrete and all other major industries, lowering prices and bringing home powerful paycheques for Canadians.

• Indigenous Loan Guarantees by establishing the Canadian Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (CIOC), led by Indigenous people, to offer loan guarantees for Indigenous communities to participate in growth activities.

• Canada now ranks 23rd in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index for 2024, a seven-place drop since Liberals were elected in 2015.

• Between 2015 and 2020, Canada cancelled 16 major energy projects, resulting in a $176 billion hit to our economy. 

• Canada exports 98% of its crude oil to the United States, and oil moving from Canada’s West to Ontario, Quebec, and Eastern Canada must travel through the United States, leaving us at the mercy of Donald Trump and the Americans.

• Mark Carney’s anti-energy agenda would plunge Canada into a permanent recession. It is the wrong plan for a country like ours, blessed with vast and valuable natural resources. But Mark Carney has made his choice, supported by Ministers like Steven Guilbeault, Terry Duguid and Jonathan Wilkinson.

• a new Conservative government will listen to our energy producers, the men and women who build the infrastructure and sell the oil and gas that drives our economy. We will immediately repeal Liberal anti-growth laws and slash costly red tape so we can approve resource projects and quickly build the energy infrastructure we need to unleash our economy and make Canada strong and free again.

Responding to Trumps’ Tariffs

The Conservative plan to respond to Trump’s Tariffs and grow our own economy has three parts:

1. The immediate response.

2. Tackling the dispute after the election. 

3. The long-term plan to build an economic fortress for Canada. 

Immediate Response: 

• These tariffs are unjustified. They will hurt people and businesses on both sides of the border, and Canada will never be the 51st state.

• Our immediate response should be to impose reciprocal tariffs to discourage the American attacks. We must also be prepared for the impact and our response must make it a priority to keep our industry moving and our workers working. 

• A Conservative government will launch a Keep Canadians Working Fund, a targeted, temporary loan program for businesses directly hit, helping them keep workers on the job.

Tackling the Dispute after the Election:

• We will propose accelerated renegotiations to replace the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), bringing in a new deal on trade and security. We will also propose that both countries pause tariffs while we renegotiate a deal. Canadian businesses and workers need certainty now.

• During the negotiations, we will protect our border, our resources, our farmers, including our supply-managed farmers, our fresh water, and our automotive workers. 

• Also off the table: our sovereignty, our laws, our currency, our land, our water, our skies, our culture, our official languages, and our resources, and Indigenous rights will remain in our control for all time. These are non-negotiable. We will never back down from protecting them. 

• We will rebuild our military and protect our border, not because President Trump wants us to, but because it’s the right thing to do. 

• We will work with the Americans to stop illegal migration and drugs in both directions at our shared border and illegal guns coming into Canada.

• To be clear - any commitments we make on defence, border cooperation, and market access can be withdrawn. We will hold up our end of the bargain—only as long as he holds up his.

The Long-Term Plan to Build an Economic Fortress for Canada:  

• The only thing we control is what we do at home. And the best way to stand up to him is to be strong here. 

• Unleashing our industry, cutting taxes on our workers, zero capital gains taxes on Canadian reinvestment, building more homes, LNG plants, pipelines, mines and more to build our own economic fortress here in Canada is the only way to stand up to President Trump. 

• We are going to do this while implementing our plan to build more homes, get people off drugs, fix the budget to keep inflation down, cap immigration so we never again add people faster than we add jobs, and get criminals off our streets.

• Mark Carney will keep Justin Trudeau’s industrial carbon tax on Canadian industry as well as Trudeau’s cap on Canadian energy, driving business south.

• On April 1, Mark Carney handed President Trump a gift by promising that he would keep C-69 — the Liberal No More Pipelines Law.

• Bill C-69 guarantees we will never build another major project—no pipeline, LNG plant, large-scale mine, or nuclear plant— in this country ever again. It will send hundreds of billions of dollars more of investment south of the border to Trump’s America. 

• When you consider that Mark Carney’s ”keep-it-in-ground” agenda will make our economy even more dependent on the United States, it becomes very clear why Trump wants the Liberals to get a fourth term. 

• The last thing Donald Trump wants to see is a Canadian Prime Minister who will turn this country into an economic and resource powerhouse, with competitive taxes, that is open for business. That may not be good for President Trump, but that is exactly how we put Canada First. 

• We’ve been fighting for things for the last ten years, all the things that Mark Carney has been fighting to shut down, are what we need to do now to stand up to Donald Trump.

Protecting Seniors from Scams

Conservatives will crack down on financial scammers. Canadian banks and cell phone companies must do a better job detecting scams, alerting victims before they are scammed, and reporting and blocking suspected fraud in real-time. We will also increase fines and prison sentences for the callous criminals who defraud vulnerable Canadians. 

1. Require mandatory scam detection systems for banks and cell phone companies, especially for high-risk accounts such as seniors over 65.

2. Require real-time flagging and blocking of suspicious activity, including unusual or suspicious money transfers, repeated phishing text patterns, and robocall patterns—backed by heavy penalties for non-compliance.

3. Create a Senior Transaction Shielding Protocol (STSP): a mandatory 24-hour transaction delay for high-risk transactions on seniors’ accounts–or on the accounts of anyone else who requests such protection–during which time a verification call and fraud check must occur.

4. Mandate public reporting by banks and telcos on fraud prevention statistics, volume of scam data blocked, and customer reimbursements made.

5. Impose a mandatory minimum one-year jail sentence for fraud over $5,000, three years for fraud over $100,000, five years for fraud over $1 million and minimum fines of ten times the amount defrauded.

6. Impose penalties of up to $5 million per violation for willful neglect for failure to implement adequate scam prevention tools. 

7. Create a new Criminal Code offence of “willful blind profiteering from fraud,” targeting executives who ignore red flags and knowingly allow scam traffic or activity to continue.

Since 2015, scam reports have skyrocketed. Yet, banks and telecom companies—the institutions with the power to stop it—are not legally required to act. A new Conservative Government will ensure banks and cell phone companies have the incentive to deploy cutting-edge technology to protect Canadians from scams. No longer will seniors and their loved ones be left at the mercy of scam artists

Economic Action Plan

The Conservative Canada First Economic Action Plan will:

• Repeal C-69 along with Bill C-48, lift the cap on Canadian energy and scrap the industrial carbon tax, to get major projects built, unlock our resources, and start selling Canadian energy to the world again, bringing home good jobs and billions of dollars in lost investment, and putting Canada First–For a Change.  

• Create a National Energy Corridor, a pre-approved transport corridor for pipelines, transmission lines, railways and other critical infrastructure to rapidly build the projects our country needs and move Canadian resources from coast to coast, bypassing the US and making us less reliant on the American market. 

• Bring in the Canada First Reinvestment Tax Cut to reward Canadians who reinvest their earnings back into our country, unlocking billions for home building, manufacturing, and tools, training and technology to boost productivity. 

• Create a One-Stop-Shop to safely and rapidly approve resource projects, with one simple application and one environmental review within one year. This will make sure we can rapidly approve the projects Canadians need more of now: mines, roads, LNG terminals, hydro projects, and nuclear power stations.

• Rapidly approve Phase 2 of LNG Canada to the project’s double gas production and accelerate at least nine other projects currently snarled in red tape.

• Upgrade the Port of Churchill to open another door to export Canadian resources to the world.

• Pre-permit Shovel-Ready Zones for development, to eliminate delays and red tape so we can start building again.

• Cut red tape by 25% with a new Two-for-One Rule, eliminating two regulatory requirements for every new one imposed to unleash our entrepreneurs. And to guarantee results, we require the Auditor General to verify them every year.

• Conservatives will also pass a dollar-for-dollar law requiring one dollar of savings for every new dollar of spending. 

Support for Canada’s Veterans

Conservatives will give Veterans the support they have earned. 

• The plan begins with ensuring Veteran's benefits are in place before they leave the military and will:

• Automatically approve disability applications if they are not processed within 16 weeks.

• Give Veterans full control over their medical records.

• Let military doctors assess injuries using one standardized system.

• Ensure PTSD service dogs are available to Veterans who need them, with a consistent national standard for support.

• Make available the Education and Training Benefit to Veterans immediately upon receiving their release date. 

• Despite promising that Veterans would never have to take their own government to court to access the benefits they earned, the Liberal government fought them at every turn. When our Veterans asked for help, the Liberals said, "they're asking for more than we are able to give right now" after handing millions to a convicted terrorist.

• The Liberals promised to bring back lifelong pensions for injured Veterans, but they broke that promise too. 

• They pledged to make it easier for Veterans to access services. Yet, under the Liberals, Veterans were left stranded as the number of case managers was cut and the number of Veterans waiting for disability benefits exploded.

• A new Conservative government will: 

• Prioritize Veterans for jobs in the public service.

• Give preference to Veteran-owned businesses in federal contracts.

• Double the hiring target at Veterans Affairs.

• Fast-track the renewal of security clearances for those who already have them and need them for a new job.

• For those making the transition back to civilian life in the private sector, we will deliver by:

• Providing Veterans the documentation they need to have their skills recognized by civilian employers upon release through a red-seal system.

• Ensuring Veterans get post-secondary course credits for skills and knowledge they gained while serving in the CAF, such as credit for courses on leadership if they already have a background in leadership positions.

• Reviewing and removing clawbacks of military pensions for Veterans who get jobs, ensuring their new income is on top of their pension, not in place of it.

• A new Conservative government will also make sure that our military Veterans get the recognition they deserve for putting their lives on the line, and country before self.

• This includes recognizing Veteran Service Cards as valid government ID nationwide. 

• Immediately completing the National Monument to Canada's Mission in Afghanistan.

• And officially recognizing Persian Gulf War veterans and their wartime service

Consecutive Sentences for Worst Mass Murderers

Conservatives will give judges back the power to sentence multiple murderers to consecutive prison sentences without parole eligibility beyond 25 years.

For the worst mass murderers, a life sentence should mean what it says: a sentence for life, These monsters should face the full consequences of their actions. Every life matters, and a killer who takes multiple lives should be held to account for each one. There should be no discounts for multiple murders.

Conservatives will reintroduce the Protecting Canadians by Ending Sentence Discounts for Multiple Murders Act, which the Supreme Court of Canada struck down in 2022 because, in their opinion, it was too hard on mass murderers. Conservatives will restore this legislation using Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Supreme Court’s decision resulted in the sentences of some of Canada’s most notorious killers being reduced, giving them a chance to walk free early. Alexandre Bissonnette, who shot and killed six people in an act of vile hatred in a Quebec mosque in 2017, had been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 40 years. But after the Supreme Court’s decision, Bissonnette is now eligible for release 15 years sooner. 

Justin Bourque was convicted for his horrific shooting spree that killed three RCMP officers and injured two others in Moncton in 2014. The judge in his case deemed his crimes worthy of consecutive sentences with no eligibility for parole for 75 years. But after the Supreme Court’s decision, his parole eligibility was also reduced to just 25 years, which will give him the opportunity to walk free just in time for his 50th birthday.

The Supreme Court’s opinion was shockingly out of touch with the sentences the Canadian public expects for the worst killers. The Court actually wrote that Bissonnette not being eligible for parole for 40 years would “bring the administration of justice into disrepute and undermine public confidence in the rationality and fairness of the criminal justice system.” 

“A new Conservative government will use its constitutional powers under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to bring justice back to the criminal justice system and end discounts for multiple murders,” Pierre Poilievre said.

Greater Accountability to Close Loopholes

Conservatives will strengthen the Accountability Act to combat corruption and insider dealings in Ottawa.

• The new rules will close loopholes like the one that Mark Carney used to be appointed as an ‘unpaid advisor’ and set government policy while not having to disclose his assets, like all other public office holders have to do.

• The Conservative plan will: 

• Ban shadow lobbyists and close the Carney loophole by requiring anyone advising the government directly or indirectly, who stands to gain financially from their advice, to register as a lobbyist.

• Ban politicians from making decisions that benefit themselves or their families disproportionately, and require Ethics Commissioner approval and full public disclosure of all personal interests.

• Increase fines for ethics violations to $10,000.

• Require anyone running for public office to disclose where they paid taxes for the last seven years.

• Require cabinet ministers to divest fully from tax havens and disclose assets to the Office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner, with penalties for non-compliance. 

• Require party leaders to disclose their assets within 30 days of becoming leader and require Prime Ministers to divest their assets within 30 days of assuming office.

Mark Carney is already the most conflicted Prime Minister in Canadian history.

• His conflicts touch everything – from his business interests in nuclear energy to real estate to income tax laws. 

• As Prime Minister, Carney benefits from hiding his Brookfield funds in offshore tax havens because the current rules don’t require him to sell them.

• And after being appointed as Trudeau’s senior economic advisor, Mark Carney never had to register as a lobbyist, disclose his conflicts of interest or answer to Canadians. 

• He was able to advise the government behind closed doors despite media reports that he had a history of using such advisory positions to benefit Brookfield, the company he chaired, financially.

• As an advisor to the UK government, he lobbied for expanded heat pump subsidies that would have benefited a heat pump company that Brookfield owned.

• The chairman of the company even admitted “Mark is working on our behalf in Government.”

• The current rules let him get away with moving his assets into a so-called blind trust, but the only people who are left “blind” are Canadian voters, while Carney knows what is in the trust because he put it there.

• Mr. Carney is only the latest in a long list of Liberal insiders who have broken the letter or the intent of ethics and accountability laws that are supposed to make their conflicts of interest and personal benefits transparent to Canadians.

Rolling Back the Tax on Beer, Wine and Spirits to 2017

On April 1, the tax you pay on beer, wine and spirits went up again, this year by 2%.

This is an automatic annual increase introduced by Mr. Trudeau in 2017, and continued by Mr. Carney this year.

• It adds up to 18% over 8 years.

• Taxes now make up 46% of the cost of your beer, the highest in any G7 nation.

• Conservatives have long opposed this automatic increase. New and rising taxes should be voted on by Parliament.

• Taxes are inflationary, and this one penalizes Alberta's growing craft beer and spirit industries, along with restaurants, and producers trying to export Canadian product.

• Conservatives will roll back this escalator tax - all the way to 2017 - and cancel future increases.

• This would save Canadians $40 million this year and give a needed boost to local businesses.

Streamlining Resource Development

Conservatives will create a new ‘One and Done’ rule for resource projects: a one-stop shop, with one simple application and one environmental review. Poilievre also announced that he will rapidly approve 10 projects that have been stuck for years in the slow federal approval process.  

ONE-AND-DONE RULE will:

1. Create a ‘One Stop Shop’ – A single office called the Rapid Resource Project Office will handle all regulatory approvals across all levels of government, so businesses don’t waste years navigating bureaucratic chaos and coordinating between multiple departments with different processes. We will cooperate with provincial governments to get all approvals into this single office.  

2. One application. End duplication – There will be one application and one environmental review per project, ensuring efficiency without sacrificing environmental standards. Instead of multiple overlapping studies that stall projects, governments will work together to deliver a single, effective review.

3. One-year maximum wait times for approvals with a target of six months. There will be a target goal of decisions on applications in six months, with an upper time limit of one year, giving businesses certainty, cutting delays, and getting shovels in the ground faster. 

A new Conservative Government will also repeal C-69, the No Pipelines–No Development Law, and lift the cap on Canadian energy that would prevent LNG Canada Phase II from ever proceeding. Mark Carney has confirmed he will keep both C-69 and the cap in place. 

Conservatives will also establish the Canadian Indigenous Opportunities Corporation (CIOC), to offer loan guarantees for local Indigenous-led resource projects.

A new Conservative government will also rapidly review ten projects currently in bureaucratic limbo to find the hold-ups and accelerate federal decisions to get industry moving, workers working, and dollars flowing back to Canada.

Mark Carney and Steven Guilbeault's “keep-it-in-the-ground” ideology–which maintains Bill C-69, the energy production cap, and the industrial carbon tax–will continue to stifle development in Canada, leading to job losses and increased reliance on foreign imports. Carney has said that “more than 80 per cent of current fossil fuel reserves ... would need to stay in the ground.”

It is more imperative than ever, in light of President Trump’s economic aggression, that Canada develop its own potential and stand on our own two feet as a sovereign nation.

Some of the priority projects a Poilievre government will work with proponents and First Nations to approve:

1. LNG Canada Phase II Expansion Project (BC): Aims to double LNG output but faces power supply challenges and output limitations related to the emissions cap.

2. Suncor Base Mine Extension (Alberta): Expansion of an existing mine anticipated to produce 225,000 barrels per day of bitumen froth. Under assessment with the IAAC since 2020.

3. Rook 1 Uranium Mine (Saskatchewan): A development-stage uranium project expected to be a major source of low-cost uranium. Approval process started in 2019 with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

4. Springpole Lake Gold (Ontario): A proposed gold and silver mine with an on-site metal mill. Under assessment with the IAAC since 2018. 

5. Upper Beaver Gold Mine (Ontario): A proposed underground and gold and copper mine. Under assessment with the IAAC since 2021. 

6. Northern Road Link (Ontario): A proposed all-season, multi-use road in northern Ontario. Under assessment with the IAAC since 2023. 

7. Crawford Nickel Project (Ontario): A proposed nickel-cobalt mine with an on-site metal mill. Under assessment with the IAAC since 2022. 

8. Troilus Gold and Copper Mine (Quebec): A proposed gold and copper mine. Under assessment with the IAAC since 2022. 

9. Sorel-Tracy Port Terminal (Quebec): A proposed new port terminal in the industrial-port area of Sorel-Tracy. Under assessment with the IAAC since 2022. 

10. Cape Ray Gold and Silver Mine (Newfoundland): A proposed gold and silver mine with a milling complex. Under assessment with the IAAC since 2017. 

Lowering the Tax Burden on Seniors

Conservatives will make four important changes to help seniors afford their retirement.

1. Allow retirees to earn up to $34,000 tax free (an increase of $10,000). Many retirees choose to stay active in the work force part-time or from home. This will allow them to earn more before attracting tax on their non-pension earnings. That could be worth up to $1,300/year in lower taxes.

2. Offer the option to delay transitioning RRSPs to RRIFs or annuities by two years, from age 71 to age 73. This allows RRSP savings to continue growing longer before the senior is required to start drawing them down. (The option remains to transition earlier if so desired).

3. Commit to keeping the retirement age at 65 for CPP, OAS and GIS.

4. Reduce the tax rate on the lowest tax bracket from 15% to 12.75%. Everyone benefits from this lower rate on the first $57,000 of income, but many seniors in lower tax brackets will see their taxes go down by up to $900 a year from this measure.

Increasing Sheltered Savings in a TFSA

Conservatives will allow Canadians to contribute an extra $5,000 a year to Tax-Free Savings Accounts so long as the funds are used for investments in Canadian companies.

• The existing $7,000 limit would remain, but Canadians will now be able to contribute up to an additional $5,000 a year if that money supports Canadian companies that employ Canadian workers and pay Canadian taxes. 

• The tax system already defines Canadian investments. 

• A Poilievre government will create a definition that lets financial institutions and advisors label which stocks, mutual funds and other investments can go into your Canada First TFSA Top-Up. 

• The Canada First TFSA is about boosting Canadian businesses and unleashing our economy so that we can stand up to Trump from a position of strength.

• At the same time, it increases the nest egg that Canadians can use for any purpose, and which grows without attracting tax on the growth, nor tax when it is withdrawn.

Putting Criminals Behind Bars

Conservatives will put the safety of Canadians first—for a change—by ensuring the very worst criminals never walk free again.

• Specifically: life sentences for anyone who is convicted of 5 or more counts of human trafficking, importing or exporting ten or more illegal firearms, or fentanyl trafficking.

• Violent crime has soared by 50%, human trafficking has skyrocketed by 84%, and a shocking 85% of guns seized in Toronto are traced back to the U.S., fueling a rise in gun violence across the country.

• Fentanyl has killed more than 50,000 Canadians– more than died fighting for Canada in the Second World War.

• The Liberals allowed this - Bill C-5 ended mandatory jail time for serious gun and drug crimes and Bill C-75 weakened bail, putting repeat offenders back on the streets faster. Liberals also slashed penalties for human traffickers, making it harder to lock them up.

• A country that can’t protect its own citizens is a country that can’t stand up for itself, at home or abroad.