Pierre Poilievre
Leader, Conservative Party of Canada · 2 appearances on the record.
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First elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 2004, Poilievre previously served in Stephen Harper's cabinet before becoming Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Official Opposition in 2022. He focuses on a free-market platform to lower the cost of living, cut taxes, and eliminate federal carbon pricing.
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Poilievre: Canada's 3% Population Growth Outpaces 1% Housing and Healthcare Growth
“The liberals have been bringing in a million people a year, growing our population almost three percent while our housing stock grows by one percent. Our job market grows by about the same and our availability of doctors and nurses grows by about That one or t…”
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Everything Pierre Poilievre said on the Knowledge Project that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Poilievre: Mark Carney holds 90% of assets in US, dodges Canadian taxes
“Here's Mark Carney, the guy who moved his corporate headquarters to the US, who has 90% of his assets in the US who You know, he, Carney dodges his taxes in Canada by putting his, putting them in the Caribbean.”
Poilievre: There is no need for government-provided media
“There's no need for government to be the provider of media.
when people can, you have a, this is a media outlet right now.
Why is it that you need the government to do what other people, with people, free citizens,
Can do for themselves.
And the answer is tha…”
Poilievre: Post-national policy and mass immigration divide Canadians along foreign lines
“And what we've allowed to happen over the last decade is that the government has said the Canada has no national identity. We're a postmodern, post-nationalist state, and there's nothing that binds us together. And as a result of that and mass migration on lev…”
Poilievre: Canadian Government Will Cut Foreign Aid
“And, you know, I, I've said very clearly, I will be cutting foreign aid.”
Poilievre: Canada's 3% Population Growth Outpaces 1% Housing and Healthcare Growth
“The liberals have been bringing in a million people a year, growing our population almost three percent while our housing stock grows by one percent. Our job market grows by about the same and our availability of doctors and nurses grows by about That one or t…”
Poilievre: Temporary foreign workers are paid below prevailing wages and suppress employment
“There are temporary foreign workers who are making less than the, in reality, less than the prevailing wage and driving wages down and jobs out.”
Poilievre: Canada should eliminate the Temporary Foreign Worker Program entirely
“Stop bringing in temporary foreign workers. Get rid of that program altogether.”
Poilievre: Eliminating Capital Gains Tax on Reinvested Capital Is Economic 'Rocket Fuel'
“There's also, I think, some very exciting things we can do, like get rid of capital gains tax. When you reinvest in Canada, the government's going to get its pound of salt one day anyway. Eventually you'll fully cash out and you'll want to enjoy Everything you…”
Poilievre: Northwest BC pipeline would generate $30B annually in exports
“You got one pipeline to Northwest British Columbia that the liberals blocked and that I'm pushing for that would move a million barrels and 30 a day and thirty billion dollars a year overseas. That would be the single biggest boost to overseas exports in the h…”
Poilievre: Canada gave Stellantis $15B while Stellantis cut Canadian jobs
“And we've seen it with the Stellantis deal, where we're in for fifteen billion dollars, and Stellantis is cutting jobs in Canada. Fifteen billion dollars for one company. That works out to almost a thousand dollars for every Canadian family in taxes for a comp…”
Poilievre: Bill C-11 lets CRTC manipulate social algorithms
“We've seen this government has been trying to concentrate more and more media power, whether it's through C-Eleven
Which allows the CRTC to manipulate social media algorithms to favor certain types of media”
Poilievre: Governments and pharma companies perpetuate the drug crisis for profit
“Governments, pharmaceutical companies, and a whole group of parasitical interest groups have created this crisis and perpetuated it.”
Poilievre: Anyone caught distributing over 40mg of fentanyl should receive a murder sentence
“So I, my view is anyone who's caught marketing or producing more than 40 milligrams, enough to kill 20 people, should be given a murder sentence.”
Poilievre: Government Division Led to Protests Targeting Jewish Institutions
“I think there's been, I think the government has tried to encourage people to divide into different camps, and that has metastasized onto our streets with these horrible protests that target Jewish places of worship and schools and businesses and I think that'…”
Poilievre: Conservative government will completely eliminate Canada's carbon tax
“So I will get rid of the entire tax for everyone and for real.”
Poilievre: Mark Carney Claimed in 2021 There Would Be No Inflation
“Like, you know, Mr. Carney, for example, told us in 20, 21, don't worry about inflation. There won't be any inflation. We should print even more money. Well, he was totally wrong. Like, utterly wrong.”
Poilievre claims 25% of Canadians in poverty and food bank lineups doubled
“Now 25% of people are in poverty. Food bank lineups increased by over a hundred percent. One in four of our kids is going to school undernourished.”
Poilievre Plans to Cut Canada's Foreign Aid Budget
“I am going to cut back on foreign aid. I don't think that we should be sending seven or eight billion dollars out of our country at a time when we can't house our people or provide drinking water and First Nations reserves.”
Poilievre promises to repeal Bills C-69 and C-48 to speed project approvals
“And of course, we're going to get rid of the, you know, development law, C-sixty-nine and C-forty, Eight, so that we can rapidly approve massive natural resource projects, nuclear plants, data centers, the associated power stations to feed them electricity.”
Poilievre: 23,500 fast-tracked infrastructure projects produced zero documented environmental issues
“23,500 projects got done from concept to completion and
In two years and the environment commissioner, an independent officer went out and did a full study and review and couldn't find a single environmental problem that had resulted from it.”
Poilievre: Trump Tariffs on Canada Only Strengthen China
“Trump tariffs against Canada actually only strengthen China because they weaken both Canada and the US.”
Poilievre pledges to completely repeal the Bill C-11 internet censorship law
“I would repeal C-Eleven. That's the censorship law, which gives extraordinary powers to the CRTC to control what content Is seen to boost certain types of content that they deem to be Canadian in nature, although there's no real definition of that, and then di…”
Appearances (2)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre Poilievre on the Role of Government, Freedom, and Affordability | Dec 27, 2025 | 40m |
| Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada | Apr 13, 2025 | 57m |