David's law practice employs approximately half-a-dozen employees full time. David believes strongly in the inherent value of the individual and of the family unit. As such, David believes that government’s primary responsibility is to secure rights for individuals. David is an avid proponent of free speech within the market-place of ideas.
Climate Change & the Environment
Effects of Climate Change
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Withdraw from the Paris Accord and abandon unrealistic greenhouse gas emission reducgtion targets.
• Stop sending billions of dollars to developing countries to help them reduce their emissions.
• Abolish the Liberal government’s carbon tax and leave it to provincial governments to adopt programs to reduce emissions if they want to.
• Abolish subsidies for green technology and let private players develop profitable and efficient alternatives.
• Invest in adaptation strategies if problems arise as a result of any natural climate change.
• Prioritize implementing practical solutions to make Canada’s air, water and soil cleaner, including bringing clean drinking water to remote First Nations communities.
Health & Healthcare
COVID Vaccination
Promesse de David Anber
Health Funding
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Replace the Canada Health Transfer cash payments with a permanent transfer of tax points of equivalent value to the provinces and territories, to give them a stable source of revenue. Ottawa will give up its Goods and Services Tax (GSGT), and let provincial and territorial governments occupy this fiscal room. In 2021-22, the GSGT is expected to bring in $41 billion in revenues, almost the same amount currently transferred by Ottawa.
• Establish a temporary program to compensate poorer provinces whose revenues from the tax will be lower than the transfer payments they used to receive.
• Create the conditions for provincial and territorial governments to innovate. They will be fully responsible for health care funding and management, and fully accountable to their citizens for the results while Ottawa will respect the Constitution and stop meddling.
Review of COVID Response
Promesse de David Anber
Housing & Homelessness
Housing Supply
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Substantially reduce immigration quotas, down from about 400,000 per year planned by the Liberal government to 100,000-150,000 per year. This will help reduce the demand for housing and cool markets in cities where most immigrants settle.
• Modify the Bank of Canada’s inflation target from 2% to 0%. This will cool down inflation in all sectors, including housing.
• Stop funding social housing, which unfairly competes with private developers and has historically been a financial, social, and urban planning disaster in every city where it has become widespread.
• Privatize or dismantle the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). This mammoth government agency fuels the housing crisis by encouraging Canadians to buy houses they can’t afford, and accumulate massive amounts of debt.
• Work with provinces to curb speculation and money laundering by foreign non-resident buyers in Canada’s land and housing markets.
Indigenous Relations & Reconciliation
Self-Determination
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Ensure all interactions with Indigenous and Inuit communities are grounded in our four founding principles of: respect; freedom; fairness; and responsibility.
• Explore options to replace the paternalistic Indian Act, which keeps Indigenous and Inuit peoples in a state of dependency, and allows the federal government to control most aspects of their lives, with a new legal framework that guarantees equal rights and responsibilities and promotes the self-reliance of communities.
• Respect our Constitutions and treaties by reaffirming the federal government’s power to approve natural resources and infrastructure projects, after adequate consultations with affected Indigenous and Inuit groups, and in partnership with them to ensure they may benefit from these economic opportunities.
• Explore further avenues to promote the establishment of individual property rights on reserves so as to empower its residents, and give them increased control over their lives.
• Ensure that Indigenous and Inuit communities take more ownership of the services they receive in partnership with Ottawa and other levels of government.
• Review federal spending to ensure that programs are better targeted to benefit the Indigenous and Inuit populations – in particular the communities that have the greatest needs.
Jobs & the Economy
Interprovincial Trade
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Re-assert the authority and leadership of the federal government on internal trade.
• Use section 91(2) of the Constitution, which gives Ottawa exclusive power to regulate matters of international and interprovincial trade, to force provinces to apply the principle of mutual recognition where applicable. This principle means that if a worker, product or service meets regulatory standards in one province, then other provinces will trust that they meet their own standards.
• Appoint a Minister of Internal Trade whose sole responsibility will be to conduct studies, raise public awareness, counteract the influence of special interests that benefit from interprovincial barriers, and put pressure on provincial governments to get rid of them.
Supply Management
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Create a free, open, and fair system that will save Canadians billions of dollars annually thanks to the lower prices they will pay for these products.
• Phase out the supply management system over a number of years to allow farmers to adapt, and compensate them for the lost value of their quotas.
• Allow Canada’s dairy, egg and poultry farmers to thrive and sell their products internationally.
Taxation
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Eliminate all corporate subsidies and other inefficient government interventions (bailouts of failing companies, regional development grants, conditional loans and loan guarantees with an implicit subsidy, tax credits, etc) that unfairly support some companies or business sectors. This will generate savings of between $5 billion and $10 billion per year.
• Gradually reduce over the course of one mandate the corporate income tax rate from its current 15% down to 10%. When completed, this measure will make about $9.5 billion available to businesses, allowing them to increase salaries or invest in productivity improvements (according to the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s Ready Reckoner website).
• Over the course of one mandate, gradually abolish the personal capital gains tax by decreasing the inclusion rate from the current 50% down to 0%. When completed, this measure will put about $7 billion per year back into the pockets of Canadians.
Public Finance
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Phase out all covid spending programs and reverse new spending programs announced by the Trudeau government.
• Get rid of the deficit by the end of a first mandate through fiscal prudence and spending cuts, including corporate welfare ($5B-$10B), foreign development aid ($5B), CBC ($1B), equalization payments, and funding for programs which are provincial or municipal responsibilities.
• Stop using our tax system for political ends and make it simpler and fairer. In particular, it will eliminate targeted tax measures that are inefficient and serve no compelling public policy purpose.
• Cut personal income taxes, corporate taxes, and the personal capital gains tax after the deficit has been eliminated, over the course of several budgets, as the fiscal room is found to allow it.
International Relations
International Development
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Continue to work closely with our allies to maintain a peaceful international order, but will not get involved in foreign conflicts unless we have a compelling strategic interest in doing so.
• Prioritize relations with our main trading and defence partner (US), and work with US government administration to reinforce our friendship and cooperation.
• Withdraw from all UN commitments, including the Global Compact on Migrations and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, that threaten our sovereignty, and reduce our presence in UN institutions to a minimum.
• Liberalize trade with as many countries as possible, while ensuring our security and protecting our economy from the threat of potentially hostile foreign investors.
• Save billions of dollars by phasing our development aid, and focus Canadian international assistance exclusively on emergency humanitarian action in cases such as health crisis, major conflicts and natural disasters.
Immigration & Refugees
Immigration Process
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Substantially lower the total number of immigrants and refugees Canada accepts every year, from 350,000 to between 100,000 and 150,000, depending on economic and other circumstances.
• Reform the immigration point system and the related programs to accept a larger proportion of economic immigrants with the right skills.
• Accept fewer resettled refugees (see Refugees policy) and limit the number of immigrants accepted under the family reunification program, including abolishing the program for parents and grand-parents.
• Limit the number of temporary foreign workers and make sure that they fulfil temporary positions and do not compete unfairly with Canadian workers.
• Change the law to make birth tourism illegal.
• Ensure that every candidate for immigration undergoes a face-to-face interview and answers a series of specific questions to assess the extent to which they align with Canadian values and societal norms (see Canadian Identity policy).
• Increase resources for CSIS, the RCMP, and Canadian Immigration and Citizenship to do interviews and thorough background checks on all classes of immigrants.
Refugees
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Accept fewer resettled refugees (see also Immigration policy).
• Take every measure necessary, in partnership with our American neighbours, to stop the flow of illegal migrants at the US-Canadian border.
• Declare the whole border an official port of entry for the purposes of refugee claims to send back to the US anyone trying to enter Canada illegally.
• Fence off the areas where illegal border jumping is prevalent, such as Roxham Road in Quebec.
• Rely on private sponsorships instead of having the government pay for all the costs of resettling refugees in Canada.
• Stop our reliance on the United Nations for refugee selection.
• Give priority to refugees belonging to persecuted groups who have nowhere to go in neighbouring countries. For example: Christian, Yazidis, and members of other minority religions in majority Muslim countries; members of the Ahmadi community, and other Muslims in these countries who are persecuted because they reject political Islam and adhere to Western values; and members of sexual minorities.
• Take Canada out of the UN’s Global Compact for Migration.
Natural Resources & Extraction
Pipelines
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Counter anti-oil and anti-pipeline propaganda from radical environmentalists and foreign foundations.
• Repeal Bill C-48.
• Repeal Bill C-49.
• Approve pipelines projects using a streamlined process.
• Find a private buyer for Trans Mountain.
• Re-assert federal jurisdiction over pipelines construction by invoking section 92(10) of our Constitution, whereby Parliament can declare any project to be for the general advantage of Canada.
Enjeux divers
Canadian Heritage
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Repeal the Multiculturalism Act and eliminate all funding to promote multiculturalism. Emphasize instead the integration of immigrants into Canadian society.
• Substantially lower the total number of immigrants and refugees Canada accept every year, from 350,000 to between 100,000 and 150,000 (see Immigration policy).
• Ensure that every candidate for immigration undergoes a face-to-face interview and answers a series of specific questions to assess the extent to which they align with Canadian values and societal norms (see Immigration policy).
Veterans
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Recognize and respect the unique sacrifices of those who serve and have served in Canada’s Armed Forces.
• Enshrine in legislation the country’s obligations to our veterans in a Military Covenant between the government and those who serve in the Armed Forces.
• Reinstate the fair disability pension as previously provided for by the Pension Act. The pension will apply retroactively to 2006 and lump sum payments received since then will be treated as advance payments.
• Instigate a line-by-line review of the New Veterans Charter (including the Enhanced New Veterans Charter Act of 2011), to determine which policies and programs should be retained, simplify the system and make it easier to navigate.
• Re-emphasize the legislative guarantee of the ‘Benefit of doubt’ standard under the Pension Act.
Firearms
Promesse de David Anber
A People’s Party government will:
• Replace the Firearms Act and supporting legislation with new legislation that will prioritize effective measures to improve public safety and fight crime in Canada.
• Avoid criminalizing peaceful and responsible gun owners and guarantee their property rights by legalizing simple possession of firearms for certified Canadians, as long as they use their firearms lawfully and don’t commit some other crime that would disqualify them from lawful firearms ownership.
• Require that all firearms categories be based on function, not on looks or arbitrary political whims. This will remove ineffective restrictions which unfairly target sport shooters, but have no deterrent effect t on criminals.
• Repeal Trudeau’s 2020 cabinet decision to ban 1500 types of firearms.
• Mandate that all future changes to firearms regulation be completed through Parliament only. This means that neither the RCMP nor cabinet will be able to move the legal goalposts for legal firearms owners without the approval of Parliament.
Biographie
David's law practice employs approximately half-a-dozen employees full time. David believes strongly in the inherent value of the individual and of the family unit. As such, David believes that government’s primary responsibility is to secure rights for individuals. David is an avid proponent of free speech within the market-place of ideas.
Raison de la candidature
Canadians have seen an ever increasing creeping authoritarianism by both provincial and federal governments. For example, all of the mainstream federal parties, save for the PPC, are advocating for mandatory vaccines and state censorship. The PPC will promote a rational and scientifically based approach to the pandemic that focuses on the protection of the most vulnerable, guarantees the freedom of Canadians to make decisions based on informed consent, and rejects coercion and discrimination. A vote for David Anber is a vote for: anti-corruption; respect for the constitution; and an adherence to the four guiding principles of the PPC - respect, freedom, fairness, and responsibility.