Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner Conservative candidate Glen Motz speaks at the opening of his campaign office on Aug. 16, 2021. (Photo Courtesy Derek Brade)

By Chris Brown

Campaign office open

Motz says election about Trudeau trying to avoid accountability

Aug 16, 2021 | 3:23 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner Conservative candidate Glen Motz says the country is in the midst of a federal election today because Justin Trudeau “doesn’t like accountability.”

“I think this election is about Justin Trudeau wanting a majority government and not being accountable to the Canadian public,” said Motz today at the opening of his campaign office. “When he has a majority he’s not accountable to anybody, and the electorate now, the Canadian public now has an opportunity to make him pay at the polls for his failures over the last five years, actually six years I guess it would be since 2015.”

Motz said that rather than being focused on the pandemic and economic recovery and the rising cost of everything for living, Trudeau is focused on his political interests.

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He said the Conservative Party of Canada will fight to “ensure that Conservative values and Conservative issues are going to be front and centre for this vote for Canadians to choose from.”

He said the country has been in a spiral downwards over the last five years. He said the Liberal government’s legacy is one of scandal after scandal, corruption, unlimited spending. He also said it has created economic uncertainty, through policies that have driven jobs away from Canada and Alberta.

Motz also said the Liberals are trying to make this election about mandatory vaccines, something he is firmly against.

“I do not support mandatory vaccines at all and I want to make that very very clear,” he said. “Science has shown that vaccines play an important role in the spread of COVID absolutely. But vaccines are a personal health decision that government has no role to mandate.”

Last week the federal government said it will require federal employees, workers in federally regulated industries and many travellers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, marking an “evolution” in the government’s position on vaccine mandates.

Motz said he’s encouraging people to get a vaccine but if they don’t want to then the government should not force them to get the vaccine.

He said the election should be about who Canadians trust to secure their economic future.

The Conservative Party of Canada released its Canada Recovery Plan on Monday. Leader Erin O’Toole says it will:

• Secure Jobs by recovering the one million jobs lost during the pandemic in one year.
• Secure Accountability by enacting a new anti-corruption law to “clean up the mess in Ottawa.”
• Secure Mental Health by delivering the party’s Canada Mental Health Action Plan.
• Secure the Country by building capacity in Canada to handle any future pandemic or crisis.
• Secure the Economy by balancing the budget over the next decade.

The plan can be viewed in further detail here.

Motz’s campaign office is at 135-105 Carry Drive SE. It will be open Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. until election day on Sept. 20.