April 1st, 2025 | RYAN TYLER

Bold Ideas For Weak Conservatives: Abolish Income Tax, Cut Foreign Aid

Carney is a snake with an easy path to victory.

The problem for Conservatives is that their leader is a career politician. I have to give Liberals credit for knowing how to win elections. Knowing that conservatives spend a lot of time railing against career politicians, Liberals installed a non-politician with an impressive work history outside of politics. That doesn't mean Mark Carney is actually good at any of that stuff, or that he's smart, it just means Liberals have again proven their cunning and Machiavellian skills. As a result, the party could stay in power at the expense of Canadians.

Months before his installation, I warned about the threat posed by Mark Carney, but conservatives continued sneering and chuckling at the idea of Liberals winning a majority. Like always, big and small C conservatives are acting smug and cocky. This smug cockiness will contribute to their downfall. You can say some of the polls are rigged, but they're not all rigged. Currently, they are all saying the same thing: this race is too close for comfort.

With the carbon tax temporarily suspended until Liberals can win a majority and increase it or rebrand it, Pierre Poilievre lost his most valuable election promise. In yet another cunning move, Liberals managed to disarm Conservatives by snatching a second weapon from their hands. In a normal democracy, of which Canada is not, this move would be easily frowned upon and seen for what it is—but Canadians are stupid. Make no mistake, everyone east of Saskatchewan will fall for it.

Outside the realm of their control, Liberals also have luck on their side. With Trump's tariffs, they are reaping the fortunes from the “rally around the flag” effect. This is a well-known thing in politics, when a crisis, war, or disaster bolsters incumbent governments and lifts losers out of the gutter. Right now, Canadians are hysterical about tariffs—for some good reasons. If tariffs stay in place, many Canadians will lose their jobs, while many others will experience an even deeper decline in their quality of life.

With these three big disadvantages staring them in the face, Conservatives are going to need some big plays to beat Carney. Playing the old, safe game of drifting to the centre on serious issues won't work. Listening to old Conservative strategists that helped the party lose the last three elections won't work either. It's bad enough that Poilievre's team is made up of the same people who lost to a drama teacher three times. This time, as they face an experienced and highly educated money guy, their usual tactics won't stand a chance.

Furthermore, Canadians need a real change, not the same parroted slogans and talking points about Ukraine, Trump, taxes, and the economy. Conservatives have offered some weak, watered down ideas similar to what I'm going to discuss here, but they won't work unless Poilievre injects them with steroids.

Allow me to help.

Cut All Foreign Aid By 75%

Canadians are struggling at home under food inflation and housing costs. We don't need to be sending billions to other countries to promote vaccines, gender equality, education, and loads of other issues. Conservatives need to promise to cut all foreign aid by 75%, leaving the remaining 25% intact for starving children in Africa and war-torn shitholes. That's it.

The billions we save should be re-invested into our economy and into securing housing for millions of Canadians. As much as conservatives dislike pubic housing projects, spending billions to build them around Canada would drive down rents and housing costs across the board while giving low-income people places to live. Smaller portions of the savings could be redistributed back to low-income taxpayers, just like GST and carbon rebates.

Cutting foreign aid sounds like a right-wing Trumpian play, but offering more socialistic solutions using the savings might work to win over important segments of the population. Cutting foreign aid by 75% instead of 100% also sounds more reasonable to bleeding heart liberals. Conservatives could also promise to gradually increase some foreign aid over time—once budgets are balanced and Canadians are better off.

Start Toward Abolishing Federal Income Tax

Getting rid of income tax is a huge promise, but one that could make or break the Conservative Party in this election. If polls are true, Poilievre has a good chance of losing, so why not do something big? If you're going to lose anyway, why not take some big risks that could improve your chances. If Conservatives fail to close the gap in the next couple of weeks, or sink further behind Carney, it will be time to go nuclear on income taxes.

Poilievre's promise to cut income taxes for some people by 15% is typically weak Conservative nonsense. It was a policy that was probably engineered by one of the strategists who ran the past two campaigns.

Promising to abolish income tax over the course of a few years is a reasonable and strong move. Making it the core of the Conservative platform would win over large segments of the population, especially a lot of big business, corporate Liberals. Embedding it in the party's overall constitution makes it even bigger. This offers a guarantee to voters that whenever Conservatives are in power, they will continue their work toward completely abolishing federal income taxes.

Creating a reasonable timeline, rather than promising to abolish it on day one, pacifies the liberals and socialists who like to cry about building roads and keeping schools funded.

Conservatives can start by setting up a committee that will investigate ways to gradually reduce and eliminate incomes taxes, and find ways to replace the lost revenue. They can spend a year on this, then take the committee's findings and begin taking action. By taking a slow and measured approach, they would make this a soft and gentle process for liberals and socialists, eliminating the fear they would all feel about losing their schools, roads, and welfare.

Simply by cutting foreign aid, Conservatives would reduce government expenditures by significant margins over the long term.

Stop Funding And Supporting Foreign Wars

Conservatives need to do a u-turn on their views about Ukraine and Israel. This could be one of the more contentious and controversial policy improvements, but I think many Canadians would get on board with it—especially younger voters.

On Ukraine, Liberals and Conservatives are the same. They both spend time trying to be tougher on Russia and promising to give more to Ukraine. If Conservatives stopped parroting the same old talking points and war-mongering rhetoric, it would set them apart from both the Liberals and NDP.

An increasing number of Canadians are becoming disillusioned by their country's ongoing support for what appears to be an unwinnable war. A majority still support sending aid and arms to Ukraine, but the numbers are shrinking. Compared to what they were three years ago, dissent and opposition are growing. More Canadians support ending the war and keeping the money at home. Conservatives need to join—and lead—that shift in sentiment.

The same goes for Israel.

I know Canada's membership in NATO gives it certain obligations, but we need to keep something in mind: Ukraine is not a NATO member. Neither is Israel. We have zero obligation to send aid and arms to these countries. If a NATO ally were ever attacked, we would be obligated to do such things, but that has not happened. Conservatives can maintain our membership and step up when NATO is actually attacked.

Build Back The Military, With Robots

Canadians are patriotic again like never before. With Russia on one side and an increasingly hostile Trump on the other, Canadians are wanting more security. As the global order re-balances and transforms, Canadians are keen on becoming less reliant on other countries for military defence. Conservatives need to revolutionize and build back the military.

The future of warfare is in AI and robotics.

Do we want to send our kids and their tranny friends to fight wars? Or, do we want to send remote controlled and AI robots that don't shed blood? Rather than spend millions on recruiting foreigners and dainty homosexuals with ADHD, Canada's military needs to invest in robotics and artificial intelligence. Offering tax breaks and incentives for tech giants to research, design, and build war robots in Canada (for Canada) is the only way to lift our pathetic military out of the pits.

Conservatives need to promise to build back our military, but with a revolutionary new approach that involves creating the world's first fully mechanized, robotic military.

Start Winning

If Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre make these bold policy moves, they could beat Mark Carney. If they don't, they will probably lose. Poilievre can start the ball rolling by sitting down with Joe Rogan to talk about these things. At the moment, not much differentiates Poilievre from Carney, except his actual lack of real-world experience.

I know a lot of you don't think Carney will win, but I'm here to tell you that you're wrong.

Predicting elections has become my skill over the years. I called Trump's victory in 2016, Rachel Notley's victory in 2015, Scott Moe's recent victory in Saskatchewan, the NDP's victory in Manitoba, and Joe Biden's victory in 2020. I watch polls, I analyze polls. A lot of them are fake and manipulated, but those ones are easy to spot.

I am telling you right now, Mark Carney is going to beat Pierre Poilievre.

If the Conservative Party doesn't work to differentiate itself from the other parties on key issues, it will lose and Canadians will be stuck with another, revitalized and arrogant Liberal government. The best case scenario, right now and without any changes, is a Liberal minority. As far as I am concerned, at this moment, a Conservative majority will not happen.

None of this means that Mark Carney is unstoppable. Things could change in the next few weeks. Trump might lift his tariffs, or Canadians might simmer down and return to their senses. Once the heat dissipates and the smoke clears a bit, Canadians might start seeing Carney as the slick snake he is. However, I don't think Conservatives can afford to bank on that.

If polls don't start to improve by mid April, Poilievre needs to activate at least some of these bold and risky promises.