• Canada cannot win a trade war with the US and should not try.
• Canada should not impose retaliatory tariffs on US Goods because that will only hurt Canadian consumers.
• Canada must immediately take steps to secure our land borders as well as our ports. This would require much higher levels of inspection of containers, etc. to eliminate the entry of drugs, weapons and illegal migrants.
• Canada must crack down on fentanyl and the cartels.
• Canada must encourage manufacturing in Canada and eliminate inter-provincial trade barriers.

Transportation

• Canada is a huge country with ports and access on the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans and shares a border with the USA of over 8,891 km.>
• Development, maintenance and operation of Canada’s roads, railways, ports and airports is critical for maintaining the lifestyles and economic advantages Canadians have come to expect.

Since Confederation, Canadian politics have been a balancing act between the federal core and the provinces, which are closer to the people.

Pierre Trudeau failed to see the importance of either the provinces or of federal MPs (whom he once arrogantly derided as “nobodies, 50 feet from Parliament Hill”). As a result of this, and his misunderstanding of constitutional government (which he effectively replaced with Charter government), since his time in office the federal government has increasingly invaded areas that Canada’s Constitution clearly identifies as provincial jurisdiction. The primary vehicle for these invasions has been taxpayers’ money, through the Equalization Program and federal grants—with strings attached—for policing, health, education, and social services.

Nevertheless, the Equalization Program has a valid rationale: attempting to ensure that all Canadians have reasonably equal access to programs and services, and that benefits provided to citizens are portable from province to province.

Ottawa and the provinces, through First Ministers’ Conferences, must agree on a uniform basic level of per-capita funding for services, to be undergirded by Equalization Payments; but Ottawa must refrain from setting standards or policies for services that are constitutionally areas of provincial jurisdiction.

CHP Canada requires Ottawa to respect the constitutional division of powers.

We will reform and strengthen the Senate, by letting provinces appoint or elect senators, as they choose; and by seating senators by region, rather than by party affiliation.

Updated: March 28, 2025