Tamara Jansen

Madam Speaker, Reasoning · 33 wordsone of the great questions facing any nation is whether it trusts its people more than it trusts the government. That question lies at the heart of the economic challenges facing Canada today. Claims · 172 wordsFor most of our history, Canada was a country where ordinary people could arrive with little more than a dollar in their pocket, work hard, take risks, build a business, buy a home, raise a family, and leave their children better off than themselves. It was not because government created prosperity. It was because government created the conditions in which prosperity could grow. New Canadians were allowed to freely create their own opportunities without too much government interference. Today, however, we see the consequence of a very different philosophy. We are told that every problem requires another government program, another regulation and another bureaucracy to oversee it all. Yet, after years of this Liberal central planning approach, Canadians are not becoming more prosperous. They are barely managing to get by. More than 112,000 jobs have disappeared in the first few months of this year.¹ Youth unemployment has climbed above 14%.² Business investment continues to flee the country, and household savings have been used up. Families are working harder while falling further behind. Positioning · 25 wordsThis is the disastrous result of a government that cannot keep its hands out of our pockets or their red tape out of our enterprises.Positioning Claims · 14 wordsThe government seems determined to argue about whether Canada is in a technical recession. Positioning · 47 wordsI wonder whether the Prime Minister would use that same ridiculous argument while standing beside a mother waiting in a food bank line, a young person sending out résumés with no response or a family losing their home. Canadians do not experience recession through Liberal talking points.Positioning Claims · 30 wordsThey experience it through lost jobs, missed mortgage payments, shrinking savings accounts and the growing fear that despite working hard and playing by the rules, they are falling further behind. Positioning · 37 wordsThis recession is the logical consequence of Liberal ideology. The Liberals have a governing philosophy that believes prosperity can be designed by Ottawa in a boardroom, rather than created by millions of Canadians making decisions for themselves.Positioning Reasoning · 24 wordsWhen a government makes it harder to build, invest, hire or expand, it should not be a surprise when investments leave and jobs disappear. Claims · 27 wordsWhat is especially troubling is that Canada is not suffering from a lack of talent, resources, innovation or ambition. We possess all of those things in abundance. Positioning · 22 wordsWhat we lack is a government that is willing to remove the barriers that prevent Canadians from putting those strengths to work.Positioning Claims · 12 wordsEvery year it becomes more difficult to build, invest, hire or expand, Reasoning · 13 wordsbecause government has inserted itself into more and more areas of economic life. Claims · 63 wordsThe result is a system that satisfies almost no one. Those paying for it feel overburdened, while those depending on it often find that it delivers less than promised. Government grows larger, yet the problems it claims to solve seem only to multiply. Adam Smith understood that prosperity is created when free people are allowed to pursue opportunity and create value for others.³ Reasoning · 13 wordsWe know that liberty is weakened when power becomes concentrated in government institutions.Unearned certainty Procedure · 4 wordsOne truth never changes: ProcedureReasoning · 15 wordsA nation becomes stronger when its citizens are empowered, not when they are centrally managed. The question · 37 wordsAfter years of rising bureaucracy, rising spending, rising deficits, rising unemployment and now a recession, when will the government acknowledge that prosperity does not come from Ottawa treating citizens like incapable children, but from smart, hard-working Canadians—