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Conservative MP Michelle Rempel endorses Rob Morrison

Conservative candidate for the Kootenay-Columbia riding Rob Morrison hosted the outspoken Calgary-based MP Michelle Rempel at the Creston Ramada.

Rempel, a two-time Parliamentarian of the Year, kicked off the January 21 event by asking the audience if they wanted to hear about policy, the campaign or a red meat speech.

To the amusement of the roughly  75 attendees, Rempel criticized Current Kootenay-Columbia New Democrat MP Wayne Stetski.

“I had to Google who he is,” Rempel explained. “As you know I’m very active. I don’t know who he is and that is not what this community needs.”

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Kootenay-Columbia Conservative candidate Rob Morrison introduced Michelle Rempel and gave her the lion’s share of mic time. (image courtesy of Jensen Shields)

Her main focus was what is at stake this election, using what she called an arrogant statement by Liberal Party staffers who said that the Liberal Party was just trying to keep Canada, Canada.

“This is a very clear and stark choice where I’m not sure if we have another four years of Justin Trudeau, we can get our country back on that path. Keeping Canada, Canada.”

In her attempt to cover all the bases, she criticized the Liberal government on their handling of the Trans-Mountain Pipeline, carbon tax, spending habits and immigration policies.

Serving as Shadow Minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Rempel said it’s important for new immigrants to be integrated into the social and economic fabric of Canada including its rural areas while ensuring existing Canadians can make ends meet.

“We’ll make sure that we are planning the numbers of people that are allowed into the country to match the needs of the Canadian economy.  And for humanitarian immigrants, we are prioritizing the world’s most vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers, and that we are adequately budgeting for integration support.”

She said the roughly 40,000 person backlog of irregular immigrants claiming asylum while being housed, fed and given healthcare is wrong.  However, she offered no immediate solution. As for Canadian citizens leaving the country to join what she described ISIS as “a genocidal fundamentalist cult,” she said they should be brought to justice before any attempts of reintegration.

When asked about initiatives to help combat climate change in relation to agricultural producers, Rempel made her stance on the federal carbon tax clear.

“It actually exacerbates our competitiveness with the United States. It’s as simple as that. If you care about climate change and if you care about competitiveness, you oppose the carbon tax because it doesn’t work. It doesn’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions and it makes people look at investment south.”

Rempel spoke on how the $40 a ton carbon tax poses no threat to large energy producers, and that many have already factored it into their production cost.

She claimed that the reduction of growth in greenhouse gas emissions while growing the economy was already in effect under the previous conservative government due to their regulatory approach in Alberta.  Rempel said any credit that the Liberal party lay claim to would be disingenuous.

The presentation ended with a question period.

Rempel did not hesitate to shut down remarks on race and immigration from the audience that did not reflect her or her party’s values. (image courtesy of Jensen Shields)

One audience member verbally supported U.S President Donald Trump’s border wall. Rempel immediately called him out saying the comment was irresponsible and then reiterated the need for smarter refugee and immigration policies.

A couple of attendees complained that the presentation was too focused on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and that Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was barely mentioned.  Along with more talk on policy, they said they needed more information from the Conservative Party of Canada to help sway the vote.

In response, Rempel brought up the “fight” that she brings to Ottawa every day, that it is the job of the opposition party to criticize the current government and that she has been hard at work doing so. She told the attendees of the event that Question Period in Parliament is an excellent source to see which policies they support or oppose.

Another attendee brought up what he described as a mess in relation to the RCMP recruitment efforts.  When ending the question with a remark about how an applicant wasn’t chosen because he was white, Rempel again intervened saying that has nothing to do with the recruitment process. Morrison, who worked as an RCMP officer in Creston,  also spoke on the subject saying, “Maybe the RCMP are just not hiring the right people.”

Both Rempel and Morrison paid a visit to Cranbrook the same day, campaigning and looking for donations specifically for the Kootenay-Columbia Conservative party.

(image courtesy of Jensen Shields)

 

 

 

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