Why I'm Running

I am seeking the federal Conservative nomination in Carleton because I believe our community deserves better representation.
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I am seeking the Conservative Party of Canada nomination in Carleton because I believe our community deserves strong, principled and effective representation.

For me, this nomination campaign, and the election that will follow, is deeply personal.

I cannot remember a time when the Conservative movement was not part of my life. I grew up in Hamilton in a family that strongly supported both the federal and provincial Progressive Conservative parties. My first serious involvement came in 1995, when I served on the Leader’s Advance Team during Mike Harris’s Common Sense Revolution campaign. Following the election, I spent several months in the Premier’s Office helping to analyze the results before beginning five years of service with Ontario’s Ministry of Labour.

Throughout those years, I remained actively involved in the party and committed to the Conservative movement. In 2006, I joined Stockwell Day’s office at Public Safety and later followed him to International Trade. Those experiences taught me the importance of discipline, responsibility and delivering meaningful results for Canadians. They helped shape the person, and the Conservative, I am today.

When Pierre Poilievre ran for leader, supporting him was an easy decision. He was my first choice on the ballot, and I was proud to be at the convention when he was elected leader of our party.

Looking back, the Conservative Party has been a constant throughout my life. At times, politics was my full-time profession. At other times, it was a cause I pursued while building businesses, creating jobs and raising a family. Through every chapter, however, I never stopped believing in our party or in the principles that first drew me to it.

I believe in the Conservative Party because I believe in the people who built this country: those who work hard, take responsibility, raise families, build businesses, serve their communities and ask only for a fair opportunity to succeed.
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Those are the people this campaign is about.

After a decade of Liberal government, first under Justin Trudeau and now under Mark Carney, Canada is less affordable, less secure and less confident about its future. The Liberals have weakened our borders and immigration enforcement, neglected our national defence, increased the cost of living for working and middle-class families, and created a revolving-door justice system that too often puts repeat offenders ahead of victims and law-abiding communities.

People across Carleton are tired of broken promises. They can see that the promise of Canada is slipping away. Families are working harder but falling further behind. Groceries, housing, energy and everyday necessities cost more, while paycheques do not go nearly as far.

Young people are asking whether they will ever find meaningful careers, afford homes, raise families or build the kind of future their parents once believed was possible. Seniors who worked and saved throughout their lives are worried about whether they can afford to remain in their homes. Farmers, workers and small-business owners are being asked to carry an ever-growing burden while government becomes larger, more expensive and less accountable.

That is why I am putting my name forward.

I am seeking the Conservative nomination in Carleton to serve with honesty, integrity, discipline and purpose. I will fight for the people who carry this country every day. I will work to restore responsible government and help build a Canada where hard work is rewarded, opportunity is real, laws are respected and future generations can once again believe that their best years are ahead of them.

As a first-generation Canadian, I watched my parents build a life in this country from nothing. They arrived with faith in hard work, personal responsibility, family, community, respect for the law and gratitude for the opportunities Canada provided.

They believed that a better life could be earned through sacrifice, discipline and perseverance. They taught me to carry my weight, keep my word and leave my community and country stronger than I found them.

Those are the values I have carried throughout my life. They are the values I have brought to public service, business and community leadership. They are the values I will bring to Parliament.

It would be the honour of my life to carry the Conservative banner in Carleton. I am asking for your support so that, together, we can restore Carleton’s tradition of strong Conservative leadership, defend our freedoms and build a safer, stronger and more prosperous Canada.

I have stood for Conservative principles throughout my life.

I always have—and I always will.