OTTAWA — The Conservatives’ former leader doesn’t agree with the current leader’s assertion that Canada got taken to the cleaners by Donald Trump on the renegotiated NAFTA. Rona Ambrose, who was interim Conservative leader after the party’s 2015 election defeat, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did make some concessions to get a deal — particularly offering up some […]
Andrew Scheer has been in the spotlight recently after a video of him opposing same-sex marriage surfaced on social media before the weekend. The Liberal Party of Canada released footage of Scheer giving an anti-same-sex marriage speech in 2005 in the House of Commons. His presentation was during a debate regarding the Civil Marriage Act stating […]
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising the premiers that he would increase health transfers and a social transfer by at least three per cent every year should he become prime minister. In a letter to provincial and territorial premiers, Scheer says he wants to put the commitment in writing because he anticipates his opponents will […]
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is facing criticism from nutrition experts today after he pledged to review the new Canada Food Guide should the Tories win power this fall. Scheer, who spoke at an annual meeting of the Dairy Farmers of Canada in Saskatoon on Wednesday, says the process to craft the new version of the […]
October 21st is less than a 100 days away, that’s when Canadians will take to the polls for the federal election. With that date slowly inching closer and closer, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer made an appearance in Saskatoon Wednesday afternoon and shared with the local business community what some of his election platform will look […]
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step up inspections on all products from China and to consider slapping tariffs on imports from the Asian country. In a letter Friday, Scheer pressed Trudeau to take a harder line with Canada’s second-biggest trading partner at a time when the countries are locked […]
(Photo: Moises Canales/620 CKRM) Conservative Party of Canada leader Andrew Scheer was at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina Tuesday afternoon as part of the Regina and District Chamber of Commerce 2019 Luncheon Series. Scheer was the guest speaker for today’s event as he spoke to an audience of a couple hundred. In attendance […]
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says his climate plan will be “Canada’s best chance” to hit its targets under the Paris climate-change agreement and that it can happen without a carbon tax. Scheer outlined his climate policy in the backyard of a private home in Chelsea, Que., Wednesday evening, not far from where flooding linked […]
OTTAWA — “Genocide” isn’t the right word to describe what’s been done to generations of Indigenous women and girls in Canada, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Monday. Last week, the federal inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls released its final report. The report included a lengthy argument for why Canada’s “series of actions […]
