Ahead of the federal election Monday, April 28, The Morning Star is giving Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee residents a look at where the local candidates stand on important issues.
Only Conservatives have a real plan to make housing affordable:
- We will axe the sales tax on new homes, saving families up to $65,000 on the purchase of a home and $3,000 on yearly mortgage payments while spurring a massive new home-building boom.
- We will sell off 6,000 federal buildings, thousands of acres of federal land to build new homes.
- We will incentivize municipalities to speed up permits, free up land, and cut housing taxes so homes can be built faster.
- We will bring more boots, not suits, backing 350,000 positions for trade schools and union halls to train red-seal apprentices to build homes, and we will bring back the $4,000 apprenticeship grant that the Liberals plan to eliminate.
- We will unlock billions of dollars in the private sector by allowing anyone who reinvests in Canada to defer tax on capital gains to invest more in home building.
Only a new Conservative government will axe the sales tax on new homes for everyone, remove the gatekeepers who block home building and build homes that Canadians can afford, for a change.
2. If elected and your party doesn鈥檛 form as government, how will you best represent your riding?
I have a proven track record of accessibility, and more importantly getting things done. 鈥淕oogle Scott Anderson Vernon鈥� to prove it. I intend to operate an open office that doesn鈥檛 turn people away even if the help they are looking for is under provincial jurisdiction. I further intend to be reachable in the far ends of the riding in the Monashees, from Nakusp to Crescent Valley. I don鈥檛 just talk the talk; I鈥檝e got a record of walking it too.
