It’s great to be here at the annual networking conference of the @manningcentre for Building Democracy. #MNC2018
There are obviously different reasons why people join our movement. But I believe that there are certain core principles that we can all agree on. Conservativism emphasizes individual and political freedom, free trade, and the universal benefits of a free economy.
Vous vous demandez peut-être pourquoi je suis si sûr que nous allons former un gouvernement conservateur l’année prochaine.
Je peux vous dire que je ne pourrais pas être plus fier de notre caucus: nous demandons des comptes aux libéraux de la bonne façon.
Local business is the backbone and the heart of the Canadian economy. Yet, instead of gratitude, instead of respect, the Liberals treat them as cheats who use their businesses to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
The trouble with the Liberal leadership is that they just live in a different world. Meanwhile in a stunningly cruel piece of generational kneecapping, these same people will run up debts for our grandchildren to pay off, even as they pretend to champion the middle class.
We all saw the depth of their mean-spiritedness last week, when the Prime Minister scolded Canada’s veterans for asking for more than the government was able to give.
It’s not just a contest between left and right. It’s about being free, or unfree.
There was something else that distinguished the world that I grew up in - it was a world in which the failures of big government intrusion into the economy and into peoples’ lives were on clear display.
In those years, Conservatives in the west unshackled our economy, and they demonstrated the steadfastness and fortitude to sacrifice in the fight for freedom. And they won.
Make no mistake – in the ideological conflict, it took conservatives, with their commitment to freedom, democracy, and human dignity, to win the day.
Appease violent dictators and despotic regimes? I thought we had learned that lesson too, in the 1930s. Suppress free speech to protect people’s feelings? I thought we had learned that lesson in the 19th century.
Quelle relation les libéraux veulent que les Canadiens aient avec leur gouvernement? Allons-nous faire passer les gens avant le gouvernement? Le gouvernement va-t-ilappartenir aux Canadiens?
To understand what Liberals think, you don’t listen to what they say. You look at what they do. They will tell you it’s all for our own good. The Liberals are always so good at wrapping themselves up in the idea that they are full of compassion.
But Conservatives need to remind Canadians that the Liberals have no exclusive monopoly on compassion. But real compassion is what Conservatives do.
It’s always bothered me: When we become conservatives, we don’t lose our hearts. We still want the world to be a better place. Greener, cleaner, more just, more prosperous, for men, for women, for people who work hard and play by the rules, for our children, for other Canadians.
This study of history teaches conservatives humility. It teaches us to appreciate how fortunate we are in this great country. It warns us how quickly that good fortune can be squandered. It teaches us that there must be limits to government’s power over the lives of individuals.
Not because we’ve given up on the dream of a better world, but because the lessons of history prove that coercive governments invariably make the world worse.
La différence est qu’à un moment, on doit arrêter de parler et AGIR. Sortir et se mettre au travail, accordant ses idées pour un Canada meilleur avec les réalités souvent complexes et difficiles de la vie de tous les jours.
The history of the past several decades is a glorious confirmation of what can be achieved when people are free to build, free to create, and free to find innovative solutions to problems, without the interference of bureaucrats who think they know better.
Now, all of us know that, as Conservatives, it is simply not enough to speak our values, but to have a plan to back them up. And in the weeks and months to come, Canda’s Conservatives will be putting forward our vision for putting people before government.
My colleague @PierrePoilievre put forward a private members bill that supports workers with disabilities.
.@MaximeBernier tabled a bill that will shine a light onto corporate welfare and force the government to disclose whether or not companies that have received sweetheart loans have actually paid them back.
My recent private member’s bill, the Supporting New Parents Act, will give new parents up to $4000 a year to help adjust to life with a new family.
A Conservative government under Andrew Scheer will return Canada to being a principled voice on the world stage.
We will stand with Israel and Ukraine – and we will stand for the rights and dignity of peoples everywhere – for the right to be free, to choose your own government, and to express your opinions.
C’est un héritage conservateur. Nous sommes le parti du libre-échange. Nous sommes le parti de l’ALENA. Aujourd’hui, nous voyons que notre ordre du jour commercial est en difficulté. L’avenir est incertain.
Nous ne devrions pas oublier nos valeurs de libre-échange, mais les défendre plus que jamais. Nous devons répéter sans cesse que les obstacles commerciaux entre le Canada et ses alliés font plus de mal que de bien.
So today, I’m making you the first to know. Canada’s Conservatives will pursue a free trade deal with the United Kingdom when we form government in 2019. Moreover, I’ll be taking the initiative to promote this idea when I travel to the United Kingdom later this spring.
It’s not enough for Conservatives to criticize. We need to show we have a better idea. Our plans need to be clear.
Nous allons profiter des nouvelles circonstances mondiales pour défendre la prospérité que le commerce nous apporte, avec d’autres pays qui partagent le rêve de gens libres qui prennent des décisions librement.
In the end, that’s what we Conservatives want to achieve: freedom, and greater opportunity for all. Freedom is a government that lets the free market work, that keeps taxes and spending under control. Opportunity that makes it possible for everyone to get ahead.
Et le monde a appris, une fois de plus, une précieuse leçon : attention aux gouvernements qui aiment le pouvoir, qui veulent contrôler les pensées et les idées. Ils n’aiment pas que les gens montrent qu’ils ne sont pas d’accord avec eux et deviennent pires, pas meilleurs.
We know it is a privilege to do our duty for our children and our grandchildren, to go out and build for them a good place. To build on a foundation left to us by the generations that came before, rather than constantly being ashamed by it.
Un pays qui n’est pas affaibli par la dette, et par le lourd contrôle du gouvernement, mais un Canada motivé par l’espoir… et renforcé par la liberté.
A Canada of hope, and opportunity. Now, it will take all of us to do this. Each and everyone one of has to do our part. We need to re-win those arguments. All of us, in every walk of life, in every level of government have to win over a new generation of Canadians.
So all of us working together, can build a Canada that works, a country they will love as we love it,and one of which they will for all their lives be proud to say, “I am a Canadian.”
And I know that by working together, we can achieve that critical first step. We can make sure that Justin Trudeau is a one term Prime Minister!
God bless Canada. 🇨🇦
