Affordability & Housing
Childcare
Liberal's promises
Home construction and supply
Liberal's promises
"catalyzing the housing industry by providing over $25 billion in financing to innovative prefabricated home builders in Canada, including those using Canadian technologies and resources like mass timber and softwood lumber, to build faster, smarter, more affordably, and more sustainably;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"BCH will also catalyze the housing industry and create higher-paying jobs by providing $25 billion in debt financing and $1 billion in equity financing to innovative Canadian prefabricated home builders. Prefabricated and modular housing can reduce construction times by up to 50 per cent, costs by up to 20 per cent, and emissions by up to 22 per cent compared to traditional construction methods." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-16
"cutting municipal development charges in half for multi-unit residential housing while working with provinces and territories to keep municipalities whole;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will cut municipal development charges in half for multi-unit residential housing and work with provinces and territories to make up the lost revenue for municipalities for a period of five years. For a two-bedroom apartment in Toronto, the cost savings from this measure would be approximately $40,000." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"publicly report on municipalities’ progress to speed up permitting and approval timelines and implement other commitments under the Housing Accelerator Fund;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"leverage pre-approved, standardized housing designs across all public lands and encourage its adoption as-of-right across the country;" — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Homelessness
Liberal's promise
"We will immediately develop homelessness reduction targets with every province and territory to inform Housing First investments, improve access to treatment, and end encampments community by community." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Public and affordable housing
Liberal's promises
"BCH will also provide $10 billion in low-cost financing and capital to affordable home builders. $4 billion will go towards long-term fixed-rate financing for affordable housing builders. $6 billion will go towards rapidly building deeply affordable housing, supportive housing, Indigenous housing, and shelters. BCH will direct $2 billion of this amount to build new student and seniors housing, in partnership with provinces and territories. We will immediately develop homelessness reduction targets with every province and territory to inform Housing First investments, improve access to treatment, and end encampments community by community." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Renting and rental housing
Liberal's promises
"We will reintroduce a tax incentive which, when originally introduced in the 1970s, spurred tens of thousands of rental housing across the country. Known as the Multiple Unit Rental Building (MURB) cost allowance, this policy helped produce nearly 200,000 units in seven years (1974-81)." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will facilitate the conversion of existing structures into affordable housing units by reducing the tax liability for private owners of multi-purpose rental when they sell their building to a non-profit operator, land trust, or non-profit acquisition fund - so long as the proceeds are reinvested in building new purpose-built rental housing." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Tax measures and rebates
Liberal's promise
"This middle-class tax cut will save two-income families up to $825 a year, by reducing the marginal tax rate on the lowest tax bracket by 1 percentage point. More than 22 million Canadians will benefit directly from this tax cut, and middle- and low-income Canadians will benefit the most." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Jobs, Businesses, & Labour
Inter-provincial business and trade
Liberal's promises
"We will inject $5 billion into a new Trade Diversification Corridor Fund, to build the infrastructure that will help diversify our trade partners, create good jobs and drive economic growth. This fund will accelerate nation-building projects at ports, railroads, inland terminals, airports, and highways. This will build one Canadian economy and diversify our trade away from the United States." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Authorize Canadian ports to cooperate instead of compete, in order to maximize efficiencies by leveraging comparative advantages." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
International trade
Liberal's promises
"We will inject $5 billion into a new Trade Diversification Corridor Fund, to build the infrastructure that will help diversify our trade partners, create good jobs and drive economic growth. This fund will accelerate nation-building projects at ports, railroads, inland terminals, airports, and highways. This will build one Canadian economy and diversify our trade away from the United States." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Authorize Canadian ports to cooperate instead of compete, in order to maximize efficiencies by leveraging comparative advantages." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Manufacturing
Liberal's promises
"Create a $2 billion Strategic Response Fund to boost our auto sector’s competitiveness, protect manufacturing jobs, support workers to upskill their expertise in the industry, and build a fortified Canadian supply chain – from raw materials to finished vehicles." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Build an “All-in-Canada” network for auto manufacturing component parts. With this network, we will work with industry to build more car parts in Canada, limit those parts crossing the border during production, and attract investment into our own industry." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Leverage government funding to prioritize and procure Canadian-built vehicles, catalyzing domestic investment to grow the Canadian auto industry." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Sovereignty, Foreign Relations, & the United States
National defence
Liberal's promises
"Expand the capabilities of the Navy with new submarines and additional heavy icebreakers to defend the North." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will expand the reach and abilities of the Canadian Coast Guard and integrate them into our NATO defence capabilities. Our Coast Guard carries out important work, but we need to update their mission to face changing realities to protect our sovereignty and counter criminal activity, like the trafficking of illicit drugs. That’s why we will give the Canadian Coast Guard a new mandate—and the right equipment—to conduct maritime surveillance operations to secure our coasts." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will end the chronic lapsing of defence spending, through the creation of a defence capital account that ensures that even when the timing of an investment changes, every dollar assigned to Canada’s defence will remain for that purpose." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"We will modernize our procurement legislation to ensure our Forces can buy the equipment that they need, when they need it—which is now. We can also swiftly surpass our existing defence spending targets and bolster our capabilities by investing in dual purpose infrastructure—whether housing, cybersecurity, or satellite technology—that delivers immediate benefits for both our Forces and the public." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
"Creating a first-in-class drone capability that will build and deploy aquatic and airborne uncrewed vehicles to defend our arctic, our undersea infrastructure, our borders, and our allies. This new capability will be matched with an industrial strategy that builds and perfects these technologies so that Canadian companies benefit from Canadian procurements." — liberal.ca, retrieved 2025-04-14
Biography
I grew up working on a dairy farm in rural Ontario. My dad moved to Innisfail in the late 70's and worked as a mechanic there until 2000. I visited him often along with my aunts, uncles, and cousins in Airdrie and Lacombe. My spouse's family has lived in Cochrane for about 16 years and we also now call it home.
I believe in leaving everything better than you found it. I have contributed to positive change in all of my work settings which have spanned 3 provinces and 3 territories, as well as a national role. This has led to great experiences and lessons that can be applied to Airdrie, Cochrane, and those in between.
I have supported friends in their campaigns with all 3 of the major political parties at different times because I believed in them and their skills and passion. Right now, I think locally and nationally, Canadians need political representatives that have significant skills, experience, education, and a proven track record of positive accomplishments.
This is why I recently joined the Liberal party to support Mark Carney. He is the right leader for our present needs, and I know I will be an asset to his team, and a strong voice for all who live, work, and play in our riding. This includes those who have always been here (I am committed to working closely with Blackfoot Confederacy, and the Stoney Nakoda nations of the Chiniki, Goodstoney, and Bearspaw), those who have been here for a long time like generational farmers, as well as those who are new to Airdrie and Cochrane from other parts of Canada or the world. I am also a safe space and fierce advocate for those whose voices are often silenced by marginalizing forces.
Reason for running
My continual drive to improve healthcare progressed from improving the unit I worked on, to improving critical care for a city (as part of a multi-hospital restructuring committee), to co-creating a medevac system for a Territory & overseeing the building, set-up, staffing, and initial operations of two new hospitals, to overseeing several departments of 3 hospitals, to working for a national organization that advised the provinces and territories on evidence based healthcare. However, it often felt like the whole system needed an overhaul.
I have always paid attention to Canadian healthcare commissions -reading the Lalonde report from the 70's, the Ottawa charter from the 80's, talking to Roy Romanow before he wrote his report in 2002, wishing we lived up to the 2004 Health Accord (the 10 Year Plan to Strengthen Healthcare), and lamenting Dr. David Naylor's conclusions (stop passing the buck, stop delivering care in silos, and get out of our own way!).
So, following my completion of an amazing healthcare MBA program that was globally influenced, I was drafting ideas for a national healthcare overhaul. When Mark Carney stepped forward to put himself out there as PM, it inspired me to do the same. Because MPs have both a local role and national role, I thought that Airdrie and Cochrane could likely benefit from my healthcare education and experience while I strive to make a difference nationally as well.
If I get the privilege of being elected.
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