Shannon Stubbs Fights for Safer Communities, Lower Grocery Costs, and Canada’s Energy Future in Beginning of Fall Session of Parliament

 Shannon Stubbs, Member of Parliament for Lakeland and the Conservative Shadow Minister for Energy and Natural Resources, opened the fall session of Parliament by standing up for Lakeland families, safer communities, and the workers who power Canada’s natural resources sector.

 

In the House of Commons, Stubbs called out the Prime Minister’s broken promises on economic growth and major projects:

 

“Canadians still pay the price for the last, anti-development Liberal decade. Six months ago, to get elected, the Prime Minister promised to put shovels in the ground on big projects at unimaginable speeds, but what Canadians got was the same old Liberal bait and switch, photo ops and more bureaucracy, because the PM is just another Liberal.”

 

Stubbs highlighted that private sector pipelines are excluded from the Liberals’ so-called “nation-building projects” list and pointed out that Bill C-5 admits the Liberals’ own laws block development. She said:

 

“Conservatives worked to improve and pass Bill C-5, but it is not enough to get back the $60 billion that left Canada due to Liberal red tape. Bill C-5 admits that the Liberals’ own laws blocked building. They must scrap the “no new pipelines, never build anything anywhere” Bill C-69; the shipping ban, Bill C-48; Canadian energy censorship; the Liberal oil and gas cap; and the federal industrial carbon tax so Canada can compete.”

Stubbs also spoke in support of the Conservative Opposition Day Motion to repeal the Liberals’ only one of its kind in the world Canadian oil and gas cap, which will hurt Canadian energy jobs in every corner of the country:

 

“The independent Parliamentary Budget Officer has reported that the Liberals’ oil and gas cap will kill 54,000 jobs by 2032. That is almost double the population of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border city of Lloydminster. There are hundreds more cities of that size across Canada. That number of jobs will be lost in six years because of the cap, a cut of $21 billion from Canada’s GDP. The cap will shrink Alberta’s GDP by 4.5%, and the rest of Canada’s economy by 1%. It will cause $191 billion of lost activity in Alberta and $91 billion in the rest of Canada.”

 

“Nearly 900,000 Canadians depend on the oil and gas sector through spinoff or induced job creation. … Alberta employs 54% of the supply chain workers, but B.C., Ontario and Quebec together account for over a third of those jobs. That means that the cap threatens jobs, pay cheques and government revenue from Vancouver to Montreal, and everywhere that oil and gas is produced, from Fort St. John to St. John’s and Saint John.”

 

On September 18th, Stubbs joined Conservative MP Frank Caputo to announce new legislation (Bill C-225) to combat intimate partner violence, introducing urgently needed measures to protect victims and hold abusers accountable.

 

Stubbs also voted in favour of common-sense Conservative Opposition Day motions to:

• Lower grocery prices for Canadians by repealing Liberal grocery taxes
• Pass a three-strikes-and-you’re-out law to keep repeat violent offenders behind bars
• Repeal the Liberals’ only one of its kind in the world oil and gas cap

 

On the absence of a federal budget, Stubbs warned:  

 

“Carney, he wants to keep spending your money wildly like it’s his own, and he won’t table a budget until there are just two months left in the year, six months into the fiscal year … by the time the budget is out, this is what he will have done. He will have doubled the deficit, spent recklessly on bureaucracy and consultants, and driven up inflation for historic numbers of Canadians who can’t afford to feed, heat, drive, or house themselves because of these Liberals’ tax and spending inflationary deficits.”

 

On rising crime, Stubbs called out the Liberals’ record:

 

“The reality is that after a decade of these same Liberals, violent crime across Canada is up 55%, sexual assaults are up 76%, and extortion, that skyrocketed by, can you imagine this, 330%. The truth is, no matter what they say now, these Liberals passed radical laws that let violent repeat offenders serve sentences at home or in neighborhoods among their victims and laws that directed judges to let rampant criminals walk free within hours of their arrest with the least onerous conditions.”

 

Shannon Stubbs remains committed to fighting for Lakeland families and Canadians across the country. She will continue to work with her Conservative colleagues to fight to lower taxes and the cost of living, strengthen public safety, and unleash Canada’s natural resources to make Canada strong, united, secure and self-reliant.