03/09/2025
A Message from the
Rt. Hon. Stephen J. Harper
22nd Prime Minister of Canada:
A federal election is fast approachingâ and it will be the most consequential of our lifetime.
We are currently facing the prospect of completely unjustified tariffs from the United States, which threaten our livelihoods and our independence.
We face these threats at a time when Canada should be the wealthiest and most self-reliant economy in the world. We have the resources, the talent, and the opportunity to lead. Yet under the Liberals, we have fallen behind, way behind.
We have the third largest oil reserves in the world, yet we import 179 million barrels of foreign oil every year because the Liberals shut down our wealth-generating pipelines â while leaving us reliant on the United States.
We are the 5th largest supplier of natural gas, but we still canât export LNG because the Liberals claim there is 'no business case.'
We have more farmland per capita than almost any country, yet food prices have risen 37% faster than in the U.S. because of the Liberalsâ carbon tax on farmers and truckers.
Instead of tapping into our potential, the Liberals under Justin Trudeau, with the advice of Mark Carney, have doubled the debt, doubled housing costs, and doubled food bank lineups. Theyâve blocked Canadian energy while making us reliant on foreign oil, raised taxes on hard-working Canadians, and driven half a trillion dollars in investment out of our country.
And now, Mark Carney wants us to believe that his âexperienceâ is the solution. But what is that âexperienceâ?
Carneyâs experience is NOT the day-to-day management of Canadaâs economy during the global financial crisis. I have listened, with increasing disbelief, to Mark Carneyâs attempts to take credit for things he had little or nothing to do with back then. He has been doing this at the expense of the late Jim Flaherty, among the greatest Finance Ministers in Canadaâs history, who sadly is not here to defend his record. But let me be very clear: the hard calls during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis were made by Jim.
Yet the real reason Carney wants to claim our Conservative record for himself is that he dare not spea