Poilievre promises that as prime minister, he will “reduce the gap between non-owners and owners of yachts”, manage the country’s finances as a household budget
More than 350 people gathered at the Radisson Hotel on April 23 to attend a rally in the hope of conservative leadership Pierre Poalievre, at his first stop in his election campaign in Sudbury.
The event was the initial stop on the northern tour, which will see the candidate to visit Timins and North Bay.
This was another large crowd for Poilievre, whose campaign attracted large crowds of over 1,000 people. He greeted people, smiled for photos and sold party memberships. The politician has served as a Conservative MP for Nepean-Carleton, later Carleton, since 2004 and won approximately 50% of the Ottawa constituency in last year’s election.
Poilievre was greeted by the Conservatives’ record-breaking candidate, Ian Symington, and introduced by Nickel Belt Conservative, Charles Humphrey, who called Poilievre “the dominant force on the federal political scene.”
Humphrey said that Poaliever is known for “witty wit that inspires admiration and his supporters and instills fear in the hearts of his political opponents.” He added that “in my short time in this game, I have learned that when your political opponents and certain media start guiding you, you know you are doing the right thing. Well, people, I think it’s clear that Pierre did a lot of things very correctly.
The media was not officially invited, but was allowed to attend, although the crowd booed loudly at the mention of federally funded media, and Poilievre caught the attention of reporters as he spoke of his intention to disinform the Canadian Broadcast Corporation.
“We will find another billion dollars in savings by financing the CBC,” Poalievr said. “I don’t think they even showed up here today.” When a CBC Radio-Canada reporter identified himself, the crowd whistled once more. “I’m sure he’s a great man,” Poliever told the reporter. “It’s not his fault. But that will save us another billion dollars. “
He later noted that because he believed in freedom of speech, everyone was welcome at his rallies, even “awakeners”, he explained, which means people who consider themselves “awake”, a term intended to denote someone who is on the lookout for injustice in society, especially racism.
“Everyone is welcome,” Poalievr said. “We believe in freedom of speech, so even the ‘awakeners’ are allowed to come to my rallies if they want to.”
Poalievre also spends much of his speech lamenting the loss of “freedom.”
“That’s why people come here, isn’t it?” They want freedom, the freedom to run their own lives, to make their own decisions, to choose their own government, to hold them accountable for decisions that affect their lives. “
He said the real loss of liberty was “a 14-year-old girl who was deeply depressed because she had been separated from sports and social activities for the past two years, or a waitress who mortgaged her house to he started a business only to shut it down so many times that he could reopen it. Or the truck driver? Yes, the truck driver, “he said.
Poilievre was outspoken about his support for the “truckers”, referring to the so-called freedom convoy, saying that “The truck driver who rightly calls himself a hero for two long years while driving across the border without the vaccine he supplies us the necessities of life to keep us all alive and suddenly become a villain. ”
He went on to call on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and called his Conservative contender Jean Charest a liberal.
“Because Trudeau said that this truck driver, who was alone in the truck all day, now risks spreading viruses to other people, and he is a villain. “Then, when he (the trucker) went to Parliament to raise his voice, he was called a criminal by liberals like Trudeau and Jean Charest,” Poalievre said. “I have news about them. Our truck drivers are heroes, I was proud to stand with all of them. ” The crowd applauded loudly at this statement.
He also promised that if he became prime minister, he would “reduce the gap between those who do not have and those who own yachts,” he said, managing the country’s finances the way you manage the domestic budget.
“We will manage finances the way you manage your home budget, living within our means,” Poalievr said. “In the real world, you have to make decisions: little Johnny wants to start skiing this year, well, he has to stop playing hockey; or the family wants to go on a nice big vacation, well, maybe the backyard deck will have to wait.
He also said he would make it easier for the ordinary Canadian by eliminating “government gatekeepers” and “bureaucracy”.
“It should be affordable to build, but the problem is that government gatekeepers are blocking building permits and increasing costs by reducing the supply of housing,” Poalievr said. He mentioned the high cost of rent and that without one’s own home one faces an “attack on personal psychological security”.
“If you don’t have a home, you pay off someone else’s mortgage, you can’t build credit collateral or equity for your eventual retirement,” he said. “This is an attack on people’s personal psychological security. We wonder why so many young people suffer from mental illness while feeling completely insecure, because the thing that makes you have a roof over your head, the wrapping around you, the shelter you need to survive is not available here in our country. So I’m going to bring some very serious carrots and sticks for our big city politicians to get the builders to build. “
He said he would do so as prime minister, “adding a carrot and a stick”.
Poilievre said cities with more than 500,000 people and expensive real estate markets would have to “allow a 15 percent annual increase in housing or lose some of their money for federal infrastructure.”
He added that under his leadership, “municipalities of all sizes that cut red tape and allow more construction will receive more infrastructure dollars to match that, with the number of dollars tied to the number of homes actually built as incentives work.” “, he said. . “And in the real world, you get paid when you’re done. That’s how my infrastructure program will work. “
He also spoke about eliminating regulatory bureaucracy.
“We will remove the regulatory bureaucracy from the backs of our farmers and our breeders in order to produce more good food,” Poalievr said. “We will eliminate the carbon tax on their fertilizers and other costs to lower food prices and increase food production here in Canada.
Poilievre spoke with loud applause when he mentioned the ban on “dictatorial oil”, which means oil produced in countries with dictatorships, and increased support for domestic oil production. Loud whistles also accompanied the discussion of “overseas oil”.
He also suggested siding with the pipeline protests. “By the way, every time a local community tries to build a pipeline or dig a mine, there are a bunch of protesters standing there trying to keep them in poverty, blocking them from working and building independence and opportunities for their people.” Said Poalievre. “But every day, large tankers from the Middle East come off the coast of New Brunswick to deliver all this oil, and no protesters show up to block them.
Poilievre said he would cancel the C-69, the modernization of the National Energy Council and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, which explicitly said there would be no new pipelines.
Poilievre is one of the eight names who will appear in the last vote for the Conservative Party of Canada’s leadership race. In addition to Poilievre, the ones included so far also include:
- Mark Dalton (Pete Meadows – Maple Ridge Conservative)
- Patrick Brown (Mayor of Brampton)
- Leslin Lewis (Haldimand – Conservative MP from Norfolk)
- Jean Charest (former Liberal prime minister in Quebec)
- Roman Baber (Independent MPP at the York Center)
- Leona Aleslev (former Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill Conservative)
- Scott Aichison (Parry Sound – Conservative MP from Muskoka)
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