From Summer Fun To Fall Focus

1 September 2025

As the summer season is winding down, families in Aurora, Oak Ridges, and Richmond Hill are preparing for the back-to-school season. This is a time of excitement as our students prepare to return to the classroom, re-connect with friends and continue their academic studies. Teachers have prepared their curriculums and are ready to welcome this year’s youth with much anticipation. As we know, there is no substitute for a good education. It is the foundation young people need, to provide them with the skills, and knowledge to succeed in life.

I have spent the better part of the past few months meeting with residents, listening to their concerns and assisting people in every way I can. I confess that helping people is the most rewarding part of my job. I was elected to serve, and it is something I take both personally and seriously. In a couple of weeks, I will be returning to Ottawa. With the opening of the Parliamentary session, I intend to focus on the issues that have been shared with me. Key among those is a common worry of many families. A growing concern about unaffordability and a weakening economy. Workers are concerned about the rising unemployment rate and what it will mean for their families if they lose their job.

41,000 Canadians lost their jobs in July alone and the youth unemployment rate increased to 14.6%. In fact, since Mark Carney became Prime Minister, an astonishing $63 billion of investment has fled the country, with $8.3 billion leaving in June alone. That money should be creating Canadian jobs and growth, instead it’s meant poorer wages, more poverty and greater dependency on the United States.

Making matters worse, the cost of school supplies has also jumped 17% since last year. That’s on top of higher grocery bills, housing costs and other essentials.

Our Conservative Team, led by Pierre Poilievre is working hard in Parliament to hold Mark Carney accountable and deliver real results for Canadians.

This month, Pierre Poilievre unveiled the Canadian Sovereignty Act, a plan to counter illegal foreign tariffs, legalize resource development and get Canada back to work. Our Conservative plan calls on the Government to legalize rapid resource development by repealing Liberal laws that keep Canada weak and reliant on the Americans:

  • Bill C-69, which made it nearly impossible to build pipelines and mines;
  • Bill C-48, which banned oil tankers on Canada’s west coast;
  • The industrial carbon tax, which raises costs on everything for all Canadians;
  • The oil and gas cap that eliminates jobs;
  • The EV sales mandate that will increase the price of a gas-powered car by $20,000;
  • The Plastics Ban that blocks growth;
  • The Liberal censorship law targeting energy companies, which gags producers from defending their work and promoting Canadian energy. Conservatives are also calling on the Government to:
  • Introduce the Canada First Reinvestment Tax Cut to eliminate capital gains tax on reinvestments in Canada;
  • Pay Free Trade Bonuses to provincial governments that open markets to fellow Canadians;
  • Protect Canadian innovation by requiring the Minister of Industry to present plans to Parliament to keep Canada’s inventions, discoveries and innovations from being sold off to other countries. We must have economic sovereignty in the modern economy, which is increasingly based on intangibles, like intellectual property.

Conservatives will introduce a motion in the fall sitting of Parliament to get these changes implemented. We are calling on Prime Minister Carney to work with us to restore Canada’s sovereignty in the face of American threats.

As I meet with families, I see their pain, but I have also seen their hope. They deserve a real plan to unleash their economic potential, create jobs and deliver a better future for the next generation. Conservatives will be hard at work in Ottawa this fall, standing up for Canadian jobs.