Wyatt’s Priorities & Values:

This is an overview of Wyatt’s thoughts on different areas of public policy

Economy & Energy:

Justin Trudeau has driven Canada into an era of deep deficit spending, high taxes, and industry-crippling regulations on Alberta’s oil and gas industry. This absolutely needs to stop.

It will be my priority to push for a reduction in personal and business income taxes, eliminate the carbon tax, and get rid of Bill C-69 and Bill C-48 (often referred to as the “no more pipelines” bill and the “tanker ban” respectively). We need to enable the building of more pipelines and ensure Canada’s ethical oil and gas can be more easily exported to benefit the Canadian economy and strengthen our economic alliances.

I believe no economic regulation or tax passed by the Trudeau Liberals is too small not to warrant a review. The single-use plastics ban and other more industry-specific taxes and regulations all add up to making Canada a less competitive economy compared to the USA and other Commonwealth countries. If a regulation or tax is hurting an industry with no decisive benefit to taxpayers as a whole, then it should be scrapped.

I would like to see an across-the-board reduction in corporate and personal income taxes of 3-5% in the first term of a new Conservative government. Canada is becoming a country of taxes and government subsidies. To become competitive again Canada needs to significantly lower the overall tax burden and cut spending to balance the budget.

Social Issues:

As Conservatives, we cannot only talk about the economy and opposing corruption and hope to win elections in the future. Canadians are tired of the social radicalism of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals and want their Conservative representatives and party nominees to call it out.

This is a major reason I believe I am the right choice to be the Conservative Party’s nominee for Calgary-Signal Hill. Throughout my political and journalism career I’ve never backed down from calling out anti-Canadian messaging by the left or their radical positions on social issues.

I am proudly pro-life, patriotic, and a conservative who is willing to fight against the post-modern values of the modern Liberal Party.

As Conservatives, we need to fight for values, stand up for parental rights, and stand against the woke messaging from the Liberals that would demand Canadians be ashamed of our country and the values that helped build it up.

If we concede to the Left on social issues, like Erin O’Toole, we will eventually concede to them on fiscal issues as well. I will not surrender on any issue to the Left and will fight for real values in government.

Firearms:

Firearms owned by those with PAL and RPAL licences should not be targeted - full stop.

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government is making a major attack on property rights in Canada by trying to disarm law-abiding Canadians of firearms they are licenced to own and operate. Whether you own a gun or not, this is an issue that will affect you either directly or indirectly.

I will advocate strongly for a Conservative government to scrap the Liberals Order In Council “assault-style weapons” as well as the handgun ban. The bans do not make Canadians safer, and in fact, are disarming Canadians at a time when violent crime is increasing due to the Liberals’ soft-on-crime policies.

Crime and Criminal Justice:

In Trudeau’s Canada, the balance between protecting Canadians and their property and giving criminals a path to reform has shifted heavily in favour of the criminal and not punishing illegal activity.

We are seeing situations where criminals are being let out on bail after multiple property crimes or even violent crimes with the police having little to no recourse to prevent the release of repeat offenders. This was all disturbingly shown in Aaron Gunn’s “Canada Is Dying” documentary, with a specific focus on the area of drug-related crime.

To restore the balance in Canada we need to stop seeing criminals as victims. Harsher penalties for violent offenses and repeat property crime offenses are needed.

People do not want to say it, but the primary purpose of the criminal justice system is punishment. When we start to put reform before restitution we end up with this revolving door prison jail/prison system.

As the representative for Calgary-Signal Hill, I will push for a Conservative government to pass tough-on-crime legislation, strengthen our current penalties for specific crimes, and push back against the ‘criminals are victims’ narrative the Left is pushing.

Foreign Policy:

The Canadian Armed Forces and Canada’s foreign policy strategy have become incredibly weak and unprincipled under the leadership of Justin Trudeau.

Our Military spending makes up only 1.29% of the federal budget (2022) with equipment becoming out-of-date compared to other first-world countries. My priority would be to push for a Conservative government to increase the military budget over a 4-year term to 2%, which is the target for all NATO member states.

On the foreign relations side of things, Canada has to take stronger stances against foreign adversaries and rouge regimes. Canada should pass stricter laws against foreign election interference and political entryism by groups linked to extremist organizations.

For example, under Justin Trudeau, the Canadians have neglected to list the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. This has allowed the IRGC and its associated front groups to continue laundering money in Canada with no way for the RCMP to stop it. The IRGC is responsible for countless terror attacks, human rights violations in Iran and abroad, and even drug trafficking, and still the Trudeau Liberals refuse to list them as terrorists.

Education:

Although education is a provincial issue, Justin Trudeau and the activist left have made it increasingly a federal issue based on the support they lend to provincial education initiatives that shift the focus in the classroom away from academics and towards politics and social issues.

I am deeply concerned not only about the shift away from teaching useful skills in the classroom, but the teaching of left-wing social theory that divides Canadians.

I would push for a Conservative government to put education transfers under review for provinces not upholding parental rights in their education system and teaching left-wing social theory in the classroom. We need to put the focus back on reading, writing, and arithmetic to make Canada the best place for education in the world.

Immigration and Housing:

Immigration is a tool that can be used constructively or destructively, and right now Canada’s immigration system is doing massive damage to our economy and society. With 500,000 new immigrants coming to Canada every year plus more foreign students, Canada is experiencing an unsustainable level of intake and it is putting a massive strain on our housing supply and social services (especially healthcare).

We need a reduction in immigration to make sure Canadian citizens first can comfortably purchase and rent housing, and we must also put in place a means test to ensure new immigrants are not coming to a country that is not affordable to them. Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have effectively been tricking immigrants by portraying Canada as a land of opportunity with an easy-to-navigate immigration system when on the ground there is a lack of supply of good-paying jobs and everything is unaffordable.

On the issue of housing, the federal government may not be in charge of zoning and building regulations, but Canadians expect the federal government to take a leadership role in reducing barriers to new developments and reduce the costs on developers and individual home builds in putting up new and good quality housing units.