I support imposing an increasingly steep carbon price/tax or "Carbon Fee and Dividend" to achieve the greenhouse-gas emission reductions necessary for Canada's share of global emissions to fall within a proportionate share of the global carbon budget. Since Canadians represent less than 1% of the total world population, fair effort would target reducing our emissions below 1% of annual global emissions output.

I do not however support government picking and choosing fossil fuel developments to terminate, or shutting down fossil fuels indiscriminately as policy. Yet if all fossil fuel developments cannot survive a steep Carbon Fee and Dividend, so be it. If foreign countries threaten the climate by importing Canadian fossil fuels, then Canada should pressure those countries on the world stage to match Canada's own carbon pricing policy.

Ideally the provincial carbon pricing schemes would be replaced with a single national carbon price, for the sake of business-friendly regulatory consistency across jurisdictions.

I support banning conversion therapy targeting homosexuals. That being said, I would also support minor amendments to the conversion therapy ban bill that the Liberals had previously introduced. A homosexual friend of mine has warned that the bill's provisions regarding criminalization of counselling to "reduce" non-heterosexual "sexual behaviour" could be indiscriminately applied to circumstances of non-stigmatizing sexual counselling, and that the bill would have an ambiguous impact on counselling of transgendered people. Criminalizing stigmatization of core non-heterosexual identity under the guise of authority is reasonable.

Unfortunately our law enforcement system discriminates against non-Caucasian and poor people because those are the people most likely to lack resources to put up a proper fight against criminal charges and convictions. We cannot as a society pardon violent crimes if the perpetrator happens to be non-Caucasian, but we can ensure that our punishments remain proportional to the crime and that that the justice system serves the purposes of rehabilitation more so than revenge.

No-knock warrants seem to be a pernicious form of law enforcement that can easily escalate to violence, as we have seen with the deaths of Breona Taylor in Kentucky and Anthony Aust in Ottawa. No-knock warrants may become rarer once public policy abandons the foolishness of attempting to ban substances that can be hidden almost anywhere in almost any room.

Finally, I believe that our justice system ought to impose maximum limits on the discretion of judges to impose lifetime sentences. In Norway judges are not allowed to sentence convicts to prison terms of more than 21 years - but prison review boards may indefinitely confine convicts who prove no progress on rehabilitation. Our justice system ought to apply similar principles.

No Indigenous band should have European-originated property regimes forced upon them, but at the same time bands where the majority of Indigenous peoples desire private and formal land ownership ought no longer be prohibited by the Indian Act from such.