A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.
From the perspective of corporations, taxes are an additional cost of doing business. If you increase their taxes, to remain profitable they will have to find ways to lower other costs, or to increase revenues.
We must go back and we must be sure that our immigrants will be well-integrated into our society, and the best way to do that is to have more economic immigrants, less refugees a little bit and less reunufication of families.
Brian Mulroney came to power in 1984 and privatized Petro-Canada, brought in the GST and signed the free trade agreement with the U.S. He was a great prime minister and made bold conservative changes. That's all I want to do.
You can save a lot of money when you have responsible and bold policies that are in line with our principles, and we are telling the truth to Canadians.
The electric car, it's not the government saying, 'Oh, we must have electric cars.' The market was ready for that. People were ready for that, so, we have electric cars.
I think here in Beauce, people are very honest. And they don't like a politician that will say something one day and the opposite the other day.
I don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe in having a challenge to integrate their new immigrants.
We Conservatives believe not in big, interventionist, centralized government. But in small and limited government, government as close to the people as possible.
I can understand why immigrants would want to bring the rest of their extended family here, including older ones who will benefit from our health-care system.
In reality, every time the government takes an additional dollar in taxes out of someone's pocket, it's a dollar that person will not be able to spend or invest. When government spending goes up, private spending goes down. There is no net effect. No wealth creation.