Philip Lawrence

A visit to a food bank in my riding this week troubled me. Ten years ago, the food bank was serving 60 families per year. Today, they are serving 60 families per day. 10% of their clients are seniors living on fixed incomes. 38% of their clients are under the age of 18. Increasing costs, housing shortages, and high unemployment are all results of declines in our productivity, investment, and GDP/capita. There are human consequences to a decade poor fiscal management, and we are watching them play out right now.

16 months of the Carney Government and the economic news just keeps getting worse. Today the Bank of Canada slashed its 2026 growth forecast from 1.2% to 0.7%. This is what happens when Liberals turn away $70 billion in investment because Canada has a "lack of projects” available for investment.

According to UNICEF, nearly one in five Canadian children now lives in poverty. That's twice as many from 2020.

Happy Canada Day, everyone! 🇨🇦

Honoured to take on the role of Shadow Minister for International Development! Under the previous Conservative government, Canada enjoyed a strong and respected reputation on the world stage, one defined by principle, reliability, and generosity. Unfortunately, that reputation has been damaged by years of Liberal waste, bureaucratic build up, and international development spending that has too often been driven by political and ideological priorities rather than Canada’s national interests. It's time to cut the waste and restore Canada’s standing as a principled and effective leader on the world stage. I look forward to holding the government to account on this file!

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Happy one-year anniversary! A year ago today, Parliament rushed through unprecedented powers for the Carney Liberals to go around every law and regulation to fast-track big projects and build “at speeds not seen in generations”. How many projects have been approved using those powers? Zero. How many are waiting for federal approval? 500. It is all an illusion.

A big congratulations to the Alto executives for getting $2.8 million in bonuses for a train project that has no route, no financing, no building permit, no start date, and won’t exist for over a decade. The Liberal Club is getting richer than ever. Thank you, Mark Carney. Pop the Champagne!!! 🍾 🥂

BREAKING: Liberal inflation is back, up 3.2%, with Canada having the highest food inflation among G7 countries, according to Statistics Canada. People are paying more and getting less, with Carney causing the only recession in the Group of 20 countries. We must reverse the Liberal high taxes, waste, and deficits so Canadians can live affordable lives once again.

Bill C-5 passed one year ago today. Interprovincial trade barriers remain in place. No new major projects have been built, or even approved. So much for "speeds not seen in generations."

Every time the Liberals announce a plan to lower food costs, you can count on two things: ✔️Food will remain expensive ✔️The media will give them glowing reviews anyways No mention of failed plans from the past decade, just applause for recycled proposals with new names.

The @TorontoPolice and our entire nation is in mourning. Please see my tribute to Constable Marc Pinizzotto; and to the men & women in blue who keep us safe.

Carney's Agriculture Minister says Conservatives aren't "talking to farmers". Did he forget that multiple Conservative MPs, including me, ARE farmers, who continue to live on and grew up on farms - and who represent the VAST majority of rural communities in Canada? We are well aware of just how much Carney's top-down European style, bureaucratic, out of touch and expensive agriculture policies hurt Canada's rural communities, and drive up costs in grocery stores. Conservatives will continue to fight for common sense policies and solutions so Canada's hardworking farmers, ranching families, and local agricultural businesses can thrive and sustain rural ways of life -- just as we always have!

Last year, Mark Carney promised many times that he would create "free trade in Canada by Canada Day" by removing federal interprovincial barriers. According to today's statement from the Minister, does it sound like we have free trade in Canada? Why then did he promise this?

I’m old enough to remember when the Liberals promised they’d bring about free trade in Canada by Canada Day of 2025. So if the Minister is saying this is the provinces' fault, why did Mark Carney promise free trade in the first place?

Outrun the bear.

We don’t need another symbolic signing ceremony, meeting, announcement for an industrial carbon tax. We need the DATE construction will begin on a new pipeline to the Pacific.

Conservatives helped get Bill C-5 over the finish line because we want to speed up the building of major projects in Canada. But almost a year after its creation and over $40 million later, this is what the Major Projects Office has to show for itself. Watch:

Tick tock, Prime Minister.