As the People's Party of Canada (PPC) candidate in the Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasking riding (A-M-K), Dave DeLisle said his best hope halfway through the 40-day campaign is for a Conservative minority backed by a PPC House of Commons contingent..
His worst-case scenario is another government with Liberal leader Justin Trudeau at the helm. Nor is he enamoured of Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer, whom he accuses of having three Islamists on his candidate slate in this month's election. DeLisle said the Islamists want to redo Canada.
The PPC wants no accommodation with Trudeau's carbon tax, which now adds over four cents a litre a litre to fuel prices. That will eventually balloon to 23 cents.
"The carbon tax is a scam," DeLisle said, citing British Columbia's example where a provincial carbon tax has been in place since 2008 and where he said, "It's made a minimal difference."
"The climate emergency is not an emergency. The only emergency is they want their money," DeLisle added. "We aren't going to replace it with any other tax, because it's nonsense."
He said the Conservatives want to replace the carbon tax with a cap-and-trade system.
DeLisle blamed confusion on the issue and demonstrators who have dogged right of centre political leaders who espouse his view, on Antifa and affiliated organizations.
He said they are well-funded by American billionaire George Soros, whose agenda is to generate a manufactured climate crisis in hopes of benefitting by cornering the market on green energy technology and ending dependence on fossil fuels. He argued wind and solar farms are no better than fossil fuel energy sources since old green machinery will simply be buried in the soil once it's obsolete.
DeLisle spoke highly of the principles of his party leader, Maxime Bernier, whom he says broke away from the Conservative Party of Canada over fundamental disagreements on party platform and principles in the Stephen Harper era.
A major point DeLisle and his fellow CPP candidates make sure to mention to people while going door to door is the PPC’s plan for an income tax reform if they are elected this fall. They say there is going to be an income tax reduction with the PPC and it's going to positively impact all income brackets. Under their plan the base income for low-income citizens is going to be raised up to $15,000 before any tax.
Continuing on the tax reform plan, the PPC promises that anything from $15,000 up to $100,000 is a flat tax rate of 15 per cent and once income is over $100,000 the tax rate is a flat tax rate of 25 per cent.
The PPC platform on free speech rights stresses the need to allow Canadians to express their opinions without worrying about being sued or censored. DeLisle said the definition of hate speech has become “muddy” and hard to define in recent times.
He said the PPC does not welcome racism and he does not align with those ideas, but said those people still should have the right to say what they believe.
The People’s Party of Canada platform includes allowing Canada’s oil and gas industry to grow, restructuring the refugee policy, and “rejecting alarmism” in regards to global warming.
DeLisle is concerned about illegal immigrants entering Canada from the U.S. He said there's nowhere for them to go when they get here, so they're living on the street, and cited Toronto as one example. Delisle labels Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton and Vancouver as Canada's "sanctuary cities."
In the U.S. sanctuary cities are defined as those cities which decide not to allow local law enforcement to cooperate with federal ICE agents who are tasked with apprehending illegals living locally, usually wanted for criminal activity.
According to the Canadian Labour Congress, there are an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 non-status migrants living in Canada.
The CLC added, "They are an invisible population in our communities." The CLC has a different list than DeLisle and says to date, Toronto, Hamilton, London and Montreal have sanctuary city designations.
Canadian sanctuary cities, according to the Canadian Labour Congress website, means a city is providing access to municipal services without fear of detection, detention or deportation. As well, the municipality will not pass on incriminating documentation in its possession to federal officials.
"For me as I feel, personally," said DeLisle, "It's no different than my particular home. Canada is my home. We have our rules. You come into my home and misbehave, then I will throw you out. I don't care whether you leave by the door or the window."
Next Monday night in Quebec, all six major Canadian party leaders are slated to be on the stage taking questions from an all woman panel of moderators selected from major Canadian print and broadcast media organizations. The debate will be broadcast from.the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que., across the Ottawa River from our nation's capital. PPC leader Maxime Bernier and Bloc Quebecois head Yves-Francois Blanchet are slated to join the leaders of the Green, Liberal, NDP and Conservative parties.
Delisle takes his PPC message in this campaign into the five-way battle for a House of Commons seat in AMK.with incumbent New Democrat Carol Hughes, Conservative Dave Williamson, Liberal Heather Wilson and Green Party rep Max Chapman. The voters will have their say on Oct. 21.
