MP Report: 2025 – there’s reason for optimism

By Medicine Hat News Opinion on January 17, 2025.

Thankfully 2024 is behind us! It was a year to remember for sure – unfortunately for many of the wrong reasons.

This past year, Canadians experienced the continued cost of living crisis with families and seniors struggling to put food on the table or keep a roof over their heads. Food bank use was the highest in our nation’s history and homeless encampments have created significant challenges in many of our cities. We have a growing border crisis, crime has skyrocketed across the country – especially violent crime committed by repeat offenders – and our nation’s drug crisis continues to kill thousands each year.

Immigration disorder have created a national housing shortage, led to refugee camps in suburban Canada, and estimates of between 20,000 and 500,000 (maybe more) people in the country illegally. Investment dollars are fleeing Canada, hurting businesses and workers. Millions are unemployed. Government spending continues to spiral out of control, with a $62 billion deficit in 2024 alone, which threatens our social programs. This chaos cannot continue.

Canadians might be relieved that the Prime Minister has announced his resignation, allowing us to turn the page on this dark chapter in our history. However, his resignation has changed nothing. Not only does he remain the Prime Minister until a new Liberal leader is identified, but he also decided to prorogue Parliament to avoid accountability.

Why? Because he knows that he and his party do not have the confidence of the House of Commons and that all major opposition parties have promised to bring his government down at the next possible opportunity.

Despite Liberals and some media trying to compare Justin Trudeau’s prorogation to Harper’s prorogation in 2008, the two situations are completely different. In 2008, Canadians had just voted in an election.

The opposition parties were proposing a Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition government to take power, which no Canadian had anticipated when voting six weeks earlier on October 14, 2008. Back then, the opposition parties were not promising to vote non-confidence to give Canadians a choice in a general election.

Prorogation in 2008 was about respecting Canadians’ democratic choice in a recent election. Trudeau’s 2025 prorogation is about trying to prevent Canadians from having a choice between a deeply unpopular NDP-Liberal government and a potential Conservative government.

The bedrock principle of our democratic system is responsible government. The Prime Minister and his government must always command the confidence of the House of Commons. If they don’t, then we must have an election. Instead of giving Canadians a real choice in a carbon tax election, Trudeau quit.

We must remember that whoever replaces Trudeau as the leader of the Liberal Party will be no different. They all share the same failed woke Liberal policies like the carbon tax and hard drug legalization that have broken our country.

It is amid this chaos and a government in crisis, that there is a rising ground swell of amazing optimism right across this great nation. Canadians are demanding a change in government, excited for what potentially lies ahead.

Multitudes of my constituents have told me they are hopeful for what an election in 2025 means for their families and Canada as a nation. They are optimistic that a Conservative government can once again restore the Canadian promise – that if you work hard, you are able to enjoy a good life. They expect that a Conservative government will give them back control of their lives in the freest country in the world.

Canadians know that Canada was not like this before this current Prime Minister and his government, and it won’t be like this after they are gone. It is time for a carbon tax election.

Only common-sense Conservatives can be trusted to axe the tax to make life more affordable for Canadians; to build the homes to restore the dream of homeownership; to fix the budget to stop the rampant inflation, and to stop the crime so Canadians can once again feel safe in our streets. I am extremely optimistic that we have a great future ahead of us. Let’s bring it home.

Glen Motz is the MP for Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner

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