The true north strong and free : Un Canada fort et libre : le plan de Stephen Harper pour les canadiens

Establishing Tough Laws on Tampering with Gas Pumps A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will amend the Weights and Measures Act and the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act to ensure the accuracy of gas pumps and home-heating meters. [...] A re-elected Conservative Government will build on the creation of the Foreign Credentials Referral Office to work with the provinces and territories to ensure greater standardization of workplace and professional credentials across the country and standards for assessment of foreign credentials and will place this issue on the agenda of the next meeting of First Ministers. [...] As a minimum, a re-elected Conservative Government will reintroduce legislation to allow for nominees to the Senate to be selected by voters, to provide for Senators to serve fixed terms of not longer than eight years, and for the Senate to be covered by the same ethics rules as the House of Commons. [...] Respecting the Provinces and Territories, Establishing a Charter of Open Federalism A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will respect the jurisdiction of the provinces and territories in the Constitution Act, 1867, and will enshrine our principles of federalism in a new Charter of Open Federalism. [...] Limiting the Federal Spending Power A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will ensure that any new shared-cost program in an area of provincial or territorial responsibility has the consent of the majority of provinces to proceed, and that provinces should be given the right to opt out of the federal program with compensation, so long as the province offers a similar program w