With New Year’s celebrations coming, I think all of us are looking forward to saying goodbye to 2024 and welcoming the chance at a fresh start, a blank slate and a 2025 full of hope, success and stability in our country.
The last half of 2024 saw an economy trending downwards with no solution in sight, a housing crisis expand and just about everything everywhere getting more and more expensive. We had politicians from far and wide posing for photo-ops and handing out millions for housing projects that now seem stalled or perilously far behind schedule.
Rent has soared, more people are on the street and the concept of a starter home seems like an idea from time that has now long passed for most young Canadians.
I hope early in 2025 Canada can finally have a choice for a leader and a government that listens to voters instead of one that dictates how they should live their lives and raise their children, all the while raising taxes and wasting millions by the day.
I look forward to a new year where we have a leader that is working hard to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.
I look forward to an election in 2025 where people from Sudbury can show they want an MP who works hard for them and puts the needs of Sudbury first. Sudbury needs to be at the table when a Pierre Poilievre-led Common Sense Conservative government is elected.
Real change is coming to Canada and I'm excited to be part of it.
Let's call a carbon tax election and get started on making 2025 the year things get better in our country.
Have a safe and happy new year, and let's get to work making Canada the best it can be.
Ian Symington is the Conservative candidate for the riding of Sudbury. He is a married father of three children. He grew up in Copper Cliff where he now practices medicine.