Mìcheal Speirs is the CHP candidate in Lakeland for the April 28 vote

The Christian Heritage Party of Canada candidate for the Lakeland is Mìcheal Speirs. He is running in the riding for the April 28 Federal Election. Speirs recently shared his views in response to the Vista Radio candidate questionnaire to help you in your choices at the polls.

Question 1: Bio, tell us about yourself in relation to what’s at stake for Canada.

Speirs:  I welcome the opportunity to honour God and serve the people of Lakeland. I am married and have four children. I strongly support parental choices in education and more freedom for Canadians.

I am a secondary school teacher. I have experience in administration and construction, and I enjoy conversing with locals about agriculture. I serve our community as a volunteer fireman.

I speak a little French and lived in Lyon, France, for eight months.

I know that life is a sacred gift from God and that it should be valued from conception to natural death. I believe that all people are made in the image of God and that their value is fundamentally found therein.

I appreciate that we need to stop the Canadian debt snowball for the sake of Canadians today and our future generations. I seek more accountability and transparency in our government. I am asking for your vote to achieve this.

Question 2: What does your party propose to do about the trade wars with the USA and China?

Speirs: We have no control over the Chinese and American economies.

Canada must work at stabilizing our own economy. This would be a priority because we are stealing our children’s future with our current monetary policies. Our debt – our increasing debt – needs to be dealt with so that trade wars are less of a concern for us.

We should be manufacturing and processing much more here in Canada rather than supporting communist China and its forced labour. Not only would this protect us against trade wars, but this would also produce more jobs in Canada and improve GDP.

We should look for ways to work with our neighbours to the south and not engage in some kind of tit-for-tat.

Question 3: How would your party diversify export markets away from U.S. dependency?

Speirs: CHP Canada would remove interprovincial trade barriers. These cost the Canadian economy and force provinces to trade with the U.S., thus taking from our own economy.

We would eliminate our deficit and make progress on debt repayment. The cost of maintaining our debt is unsustainable. We must live within our financial means.

We would restore the Bank of Canada to its original purpose of issuing currency. Using interest-bearing bank loans, etc., to finance our government is detrimental to our economy.

CHP Canada would make available, through the Bank of Canada, low-to-no interest rates on infrastructure improvement loans. (Money made in repayment would be withdrawn from circulation to keep it non-inflationary.)

We would encourage manufacturing in Canada rather than sending our raw materials to the US for processing.

Question 4: On immigration – What are your thoughts, or that of your party, on how to get greater involvement of immigrants in the national development of Canada?

Speirs: First of all, immigrants must understand our Canadian culture and heritage. This requires time spent in Canada among Canadian people. We desperately need medical personnel. We need to expedite bringing immigrant medical personnel up to Canadian standards. Part of this would include contracting with them to practice for several years in rural areas. This would benefit the community they are part of and benefit the medical personnel in learning who their new friends and neighbours are.

Bringing in immigrants whose skills we need ensures that they are involved. Arriving in Canada with no job and no job prospects isolates people. Coming into a profession that you know, with the skills in place to do the job, makes you part of a team.

Question 5: On Indigenous issues – How do you or your party propose to get buy-in from First Nations on projects of national interest?

Speirs: Anything that is done with Indigenous lands requires agreement between First Nations and the Provincial, Territorial, and Federal governments. As Canadian citizens, we must work towards decision-making processes that give equality of voice to all people in the provinces and territories in which they reside.

Question 6: On pipelines – How do you or your party propose to get Quebec on board with national projects and building pipelines through Quebec?

Speirs: With the challenges faced in the U.S. market and the current dependency on the U.S. to move our oil, it behooves all Canadians to work together to increase opportunities, such as a transnational pipeline. Should the supply of Middle Eastern oil be disrupted, then pressure would increase on all provinces to move this project along. We need to be proactive and remove interprovincial trade barriers to ensure goods flow around our great country. As in any project, the benefits to Quebec and the rest of Canada need to be clearly spelled out and negotiated.

CHP Canada would use our Infrastructure Improvement Loans to make this happen as expeditiously as possible.

Question 7: What are potential solutions to housing affordability and homelessness?

Speirs: CHP Canada would decrease the number of immigrants we are bringing into Canada. It has placed an unbearable burden on healthcare and housing. We would also control foreign ownership of homes in Canada. The CHP would reduce the demand for new housing by dramatically reducing levels of immigration, refugees, foreign student visas, etc. We cannot build houses fast enough to accommodate the millions who have been crossing our borders both legally and illegally.

We would also take steps to strengthen the family unit, reduce divorce and broken homes, restore a sense of hope and purpose to young people, and make stay-at-home parenting more affordable.

Question 8: What do you propose to do for the riding if elected?

Speirs: I propose to gather a proficient support team to keep their fingers on the pulse in Lakeland while I am serving my constituents in Ottawa.

I propose to work hard at balancing our national budget. We need to have less expenditure than income so we stop digging a hole for our children and their children. One way to reduce our expenditure is to reduce government size and involvement. This will also give more freedom to Canadians. All government expenditure should be open to public scrutiny, and MP salaries and expense budgets should be reduced. There should be tighter rules regarding conflicts of interest for any parliamentarian, including involvement in the WEF. There should be more PM/MP audits. We could also reduce our expenditure by stopping subsidies for wind farms, which are proving to be problematic.

There needs to be robust legislation that is legally backed up to protect Canadians from Government overreach. I would work towards this end and the protection of citizens’ autonomy.

Question 9: Are there any final thoughts on any topic that you would like to share?

Speirs: CHP Canada would repeal the laws that have allowed us as a society to kill our very young, very old, sick, and infirm brothers and sisters. Without the right to life, then there is no value in any of our human rights.

We would reverse the current trend toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Protect our children from indoctrination in gender ideology. We would restore marriage to its formerly esteemed position as one man and one woman raising their family without state interference, except in cases of demonstrable abuse.

We would repeal laws that control what a person may say, think, or believe and restore the freedoms that are inherent in our Christian heritage.