Canada’s Conservative Parliamentary Session accomplishments

Posted on July 25, 2024 by Ryan Dahlman

By Glen Motz
Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner MP

Canada’s Conservative Opposition has worked tirelessly during this last session of Parliament to hold the NDP/Liberal coalition accountable and bring common sense leadership back to Ottawa. With the House of Commons now recessed for the summer, I’m proud to reflect on the efforts our Conservative caucus made on matters from inflationary spending, tax increases, and reducing escalating crime. We also exposed historic corruption within numerous government contracts, which the RCMP is now investigating, and called for government to collect back all the taxpayer money inappropriately distributed.  We were successful in forcing action on long-known foreign interference in Canada’s elections. 

Conservatives opposed Trudeau’s economic vandalism, which is causing Canadians to be poorer as productivity and GDP per capita both decline.  We voted non-confidence in the $60 billion of new inflationary spending in the coalition’s budget. We rejected the job and investment killing changes to the Capital Gains Tax on health care, home building, farmers, and small business. 

We called for the carbon tax to be eliminated, or at the very least not increased and paused on home heating and fuel, including removing the added GST.  Speaking of the carbon tax, Conservative pressure forced the government to admit this tax was hurting Canadians to the inflation adjusted tune of $30 billion annually.  We are still fighting to ensure Bill C-234, a Conservative Bill designed to axe the carbon tax on all farm fuels, is passed in its original form.          

On criminal justice and public safety concerns, Conservatives introduced numerous pieces of legislation to address the coalition’s ‘soft-on crime’ approach to serial killers and violent repeat criminals, including harsher penalties and weapon ownership bans. We were instrumental in successfully passing laws promoting transparency and rights for victims of violent crimes, protecting first responders and health care workers who experience violence while on-duty, and ending internet sexual exploitation. In addition, Conservatives forced an end to the government’s taxpayer-funded dangerous drug project legalizing hard drugs.  We also proposed concrete measures to address Canada’s auto theft crisis and pushed government action on related carjackings and extortion. 

Conservatives offered solutions to fixing this country’s affordable housing crisis, exposed wrongdoing at the Winnipeg Lab, and opposed the Liberal government’s censorship bill, the Online Harms Act.   

Several other common sense Conservative Bills include, but are not limited to, the passing of Bill C-368 at 2nd reading to protect freedom and choice for natural health products; passed Bill C-365 at 2nd reading to implement consumer-led banking in Canada; passed Bill C-275 at 3rd reading to protect the health of animals and preserve the biosecurity on farms; passed Bill C-323 at 2nd reading to remove the GST from mental health services; passed Bill C-288 to ensure transparent and accurate information for rural internet speeds; passed Bill C-377 at 2nd reading to improve accountability to Parliament on matters relating to national security; passed Bill C-294 at 3rd reading which will help farmers by ensuring interoperability of technological components of equipment; and passed Bill C-280 at 3rd reading to provide financial protection for fresh fruit and vegetable farmers.  

We also introduced several Bills including Bill C-405 to ensure accountability by imposing penalties for lying in Parliament; Bill C-400 to ensure access and use of cash in Canada’s economy; Bill C-394 to ensure safe streets by imposing mandatory minimum penalties for importing, exporting, and producing drugs; Bill C-380 to end Trudeau’s ban on plastic straws; and Bill C-369 to make December Christian Heritage Month. 

Common sense Conservatives will never stop fighting for Canadians and holding the NDP/Liberal coalition accountable until an elected Conservative government can bring common sense leadership back to Ottawa. Let’s bring it home.