MP Report: A year in review

By Glen Motz on December 23, 2022.

With the Christmas season upon us, it is important to take some time to reflect on the year past, while looking ahead to our future. What follows are a few brief highlights of the 2022 accomplishments of the Conservative Opposition in Ottawa.

Though 2022 presented unique challenges, Conservatives believe the future of Canada is bright. We have a new leader, Pierre Poilievre, who is poised to defeat Trudeau, repair the Canadian economy, restore our freedoms, and protect our Canadian quality of life. With Pierre as leader, Conservatives will lead an economically sensible government that puts legal limits on government spending to bring down inflation and will end the ineffective carbon tax. It’s a future that Canadians can get excited about.

Over the last year, Conservatives continued to be the only party fighting for a financially responsible government that is accountable to Canadians. We put forward numerous motions for government action concerning economic impacts including measures for immediate financial relief for Canadians; removal of the federal carbon tax; suspension of GST on residential energy bills; a moratorium on new taxes; and the cancellation of the carbon tax on food inputs and production. Conservatives know that Canadians need higher paychecks not higher taxes and a government that stops spending borrowed money long enough to get a handle on inflation.

Conservatives also introduced 32 Private Member’s Bills keeping the spotlight on topics ranging from public safety, human trafficking, domestic violence, child exploitation, victims’ rights, addiction treatment, suicide prevention, bereavement leave, internet broadband services, pension protection, protection against discrimination based on political belief, to ending government vaccine mandates for employment and travel.

The year also saw Conservatives fighting for Canada’s law-abiding firearm owners. Hunting and sports shooting are important to our national heritage and Conservatives understand that hunters and sport shooters are not the cause of gun-crime. Conservatives will continue to stand for common sense gun laws that put gun smugglers and violent criminals, not hunters and sport shooters, in the crosshairs. We will continue to oppose misguided firearms legislation that does nothing to improve public safety.

Conservatives have also stood against the government’s unjustified invocation of the Emergencies Act against protestors across Canada. In my work as the vice chair on a Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency, we continue to expose the government’s overreach and must ensure that such a gross misuse of government power cannot be used in similar circumstances in the future.

Finally, and most uniquely to 2022, Conservatives remained a strong voice for the government to lift all vaccine mandates and travel restrictions. From forcing the government to remove the disastrous and expensive ArriveCan app to pressing the government to remove vaccine and travel mandates (which happened in June), we worked tirelessly to end the discrimination and fearmongering by the government.

While the rumours of a 2023 election begin to swirl, my Conservative colleagues and I remain focused on one thing: delivering real results to hardworking Canadians while restoring Canada to being the glorious and free nation we remember.

Glen Motz is MP for Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner

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