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The three top issues in Calgary Centre are:
1. Affordability Crisis. Inflation has risen 30% since the Liberals were elected in 2015 – even higher for food. Shelter has risen from 39% of an average family budget to over 60%. People can no longer afford even the basics. Conservatives will immediately return money to Canadians with tax cuts (reduce the rate on the first $57,000 of taxable income from 15% to 12.75%; permanently eliminate all carbon taxes). Government must reverse its current overspending which will in turn facilitate higher incomes and lower costs.
2. Donald Trump’s threats to Canada’s economy. This has underlined the need to build economic resilience. If Canada had built pipelines and infrastructure ten years ago when the Liberal government blocked projects, we would be in a stronger position today. We must immediately repeal the anti-growth C-69 and C-48 laws, streamline approval processes, and create a corridor across Canada for pipelines, rail, transmission lines and similar infrastructure that will allow us to trade with ourselves, and to export our resources to new customers abroad, bypassing the USA.
3. Resource Jobs: Many workers in Calgary Centre benefit from the resource industry, directly and indirectly. The Liberals – including Leader Mark Carney – are actively hostile to the responsible development of Alberta’s resources. The industry has made great strides in reducing its emissions, but Liberal legislation won’t even let them talk about it. Conservatives will not implement the proposed emissions (production) cap. We will facilitate emissions reductions through technology, not taxes.
Biography
Work In Parliament
In the just-ended Parliament (44th Parliament), Greg was a member of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, an important policy area right now with unsustainable numbers of government approved immigration levels, and admittedly unknown-to-the-government numbers of temporary residents, persons whose visitor permits have expired but have not left the country, and those who came to Canada on student visas but stayed illegally. This casual approach to managing immigration puts pressure on infrastructure such as housing, health care, jobs and education. Slow processing and sometimes impossible requirements (such as accessing biometrics in war-torn countries) also puts refugees at risk of harm as they wait in countries like Afghanistan or Sudan for paperwork to be processed while they live in danger. Immigration is important to Canada. It built our country. But this government has managed it so badly that many Canadians are losing faith in responsible immigration.
Greg previously served on the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee where he took - and continues to take - a strong interest in policy that balances environmental protection with consumer interests and the prosperity of Canada's responsible energy industry. That focus includes work in advancing Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS), hydrogen, nuclear energy, and the Canadian-made technology that achieves emissions reductions in the traditional oil and gas industry along with other industries (such as cement). There is also exciting new technology being developed - much of it here in Alberta - that turns waste carbon into useful industrial and consumer products. Greg believes we can find an appropriate balance that meets Canada's goals - and global goals - in emissions control, while providing reliable, clean energy to power our world.
Greg takes an active interest in financial policies and often asks questions to Ministers in the House on issues including government waste, the accumulation of excess deficits and debt, high and poorly designed taxation, badly structured, costly programs that don’t meet goals, slush funds and sole-sourced contracts that enrich government’s friends at taxpayers’ expense, and the never-ending spending that has directly led to high inflation and high interest rates that have crippled all Canadians with an unsustainable affordability crisis.
Greg often participates in both the Natural Resources and Finance committee meetings where he speaks out on issues relating to responsible energy production, environmental sustainability, and on government spending and waste, tax policy, debt and deficit, and the nation’s financial strategy.
Professional Career
Before being elected as the MP for Calgary Centre in 2019, Greg worked as a financial professional for 20 years. His work put him in close contact with Alberta’s vital oil and gas sector and with technology start-ups, giving him a first-hand understanding of what it takes for hard-working Calgarians to invest, risk, build, and succeed. Greg uses his financial background to bring on-the-ground expertise in finance, business and resource development to Parliament. Greg has spent considerable time working with his colleagues (from all parties, across the country) informing them of the facts about Canada’s responsible resource development, including the significant strides the industry has taken toward sustainable development such as lowering methane and CO2 emissions, land reclamation, water use, and the many other reasons that Canadians should prefer Canadian oil over environmentally and ethically inferior imports.
Personal Life
Greg has a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Alberta, and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Together, Greg and his wife Ruth Pogue have a combined family of four sons, three of whom expanded the family by marrying in 2024. Greg and Ruth have also welcomed their beloved dog Rocky to the family. Greg is a big music fan, and enjoys skiing, hiking, biking, and everything else Calgary and the Rocky Mountains have to offer.
Reason for running
When the Liberals came to office in 2015, they immediately blocked Energy East and Northern Gateway pipelines, and put in place legislation to block other infrastructure (including LNG, mines and ports). Those decisions have cost Canadians. We have high inflation (driven by wasteful government spending), rising unemployment, declining wages, an affordability crisis, low productivity and generally dismal performance compared to other OECD countries.
And we are at the mercy of Donald Trump because we can't even deliver Canadian energy to Canadian customers without going through the USA; let alone deliver it to overseas customers to diverse our exports and reduce our dependence on the US.
Now the single biggest way we could improve our economic performance and contribute to worldwide security, environmental advancement, and diversifying our trade beyond the United States is -- to build pipelines!
Why have the Liberals worked against this for all these years? Canada cannot continue down this path of economic decline. Conservatives have policies to reverse these damaging decisions, build our own sovereign economy, and improve the affordability and quality of life for all Canadians. Visit www.gregmclean.ca/policy to see for yourself.
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