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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…”
Poilievre: University of Ottawa Hired Convicted Paris Terrorist as Professor
“The University of Ottawa had hired a guy as a professor who had committed a terrorist attack in Paris before he came to Canada.”
Poilievre: Bill C-75 mandates releasing accused under least onerous conditions
“Bill C-seventy-five is the liberal bail law, and it requires judges release the accused under, quote, the earliest opportunity under the least onerous conditions.”
Poilievre pledges three-strikes law barring parole for repeat violent offenders
“I will be repealing the catch-and-release law, C-seventy-five. I'll repeal house arrest for serious offenses. I'm going to be bringing in a three-strikes-your-out law. If you get convicted of three serious violent offenses, you will be permanently ineligible f…”
Poilievre: 2.2 Million Canadians Use Food Banks as Scurvy Returns
“I find it appalling that we had 2.2 million people lined up at food banks, that we got a return of scurvy in Canada, or one in four kids are going to school hungry.”
Poilievre: Canadian housing costs doubled over the past decade
“The doubled housing costs. So young people can't even come close to making a down payment. You know, it takes to your late, in your late thirties to afford a down payment.”
Poilievre: Taxpayer subsidies to foreign multinationals never produce promised jobs
“Giving money, taxpayer money, to foreign multinationals never ends up producing the promised jobs. They find a way to lawyer and lobby the money into their pockets with few conditions, and as soon as they get the cash, they dash.”
Poilievre: Liberal re-election will drive investment to US and halt pipeline construction
“I think if we go, if the liberals are reelected, you will see a continued outpour of investment to the United States. You will see that we do not build LNG plants, pipelines, or any other self-reliance projects that will break our dependence on America.”
Poilievre: Conservative plan offers zero capital gains tax for domestic reinvestment
“One idea that I think a lot of your listeners would find interesting is that I want to pass what I call the Canada first reinvestment tax cut, zero capital gains when you reinvest in Canada.”
Poilievre: Commits to 15% Income Tax Cut for Average Canadian Workers
“So I'm committing to lower income tax by 15% on the average worker and senior.”
Poilievre: The World Economic Forum Promotes Top-Down Technocratic Control
“I just think it it's an organization that has a very top-down mentality. I don't believe in top-down. I don't believe that there's this sort of group of globetrotting experts that can tell us how to live our lives, that can, you know, who can tell us which ind…”
Poilievre: Canadian government spends $21B on consultants, double from 10 years ago
“For example, the government's now spending twenty-one billion dollars on consultants. That's twice what they were spending 10 years ago.”
Poilievre Plans Dollar-for-Dollar Rule Requiring Equivalent Spending Cuts
“I would bring in a hard dollar-for-dollar law that says any new dollar spending needs to be met with an equal dollar of savings.”
Poilievre cites $500 billion net capital outflow to the US over decade
“In the last 10 years, there's been a net outflow of five hundred billion dollars of investment to the U.S. From Canada, and that's partly because our taxes are extremely high.”
Poilievre: Canadian building permits rank second slowest in the OECD
“We have the second slowest building permits in the OECD, and it takes us 17 years to get a mine approved, three times longer to get approval for a housing development in Canada versus the UK or the US.”
Poilievre commits to 25% federal regulation cut and two-for-one rule
“So our commitment is cut 25% and then bring in a two for one rule overseen by the auditor general, not by the government.”
Poilievre: Canada must retaliate against U.S. tariffs for deterrence
“I do think you need to retaliate, because if not, there's no deterrent value. The offending country, in this case, it's the U.S. Administration, needs to know that there's a cost for its producers in tariffing Canada.”
Poilievre plans national energy corridor with pre-approved pipeline zones
“So I intend to get these shovel-ready zones to create a national energy corridor with pre-approval for pipelines.”
Poilievre: Federal Government Will Transfer Revenue Gains to Provinces Removing Trade Barriers
“I'm committed to sit down with the provinces and say, look, I'll make you a deal. We can calculate how much GDP boost we get every time you knock down a trade barrier. And that means more federal revenues. I will give you those revenues. So if, say, Saskatchew…”
Poilievre: Media Subsidies Interfere With Objective Political Reporting
“I think it makes it very difficult for media to make a judgment without keeping the back of their head which politician is going to pay the biggest subsidy.”
Poilievre: Vancouver police arrested the same 40 offenders 6,000 times
“In Vancouver, the police had to arrest the same 40 offenders 6000 times. 40 guys. Each one of these guys was arrested on average once every two days. A 150 times a year for one guy.”
Poilievre intends to introduce tax breaks for low-emission manufacturing
“So I want to bring in a tax break for companies that produce goods below emission levels, like a tax break for investment over at the aluminum, the Rio Tinto plant in Saguenay.”
Poilievre: The unique characteristic of government is the legal power to use force
“The only thing that's unique about government is that it has the legal power to apply force.
That's it.
There are plenty of other decision-making bodies, associations, governance structures around society
But they're not governments because they cannot apply f…”
Poilievre: Government business subsidies are unnecessary given developed capital markets
“We don't need government subsidies to prop up businesses because
There are sources of funding for businesses.
It's called credit and capital.
We have very developed capital markets and credit markets where you can raise money.
So there's no need for government…”
Poilievre: Accessing global markets gives Canada leverage over US trade
“And I think you'd have more leverage in that negotiation if you had done, if we do unblock the other world markets that await us.”
Poilievre: The greatest antibody to disinformation is good information
“There is no perfect answer to disinformation, but the single greatest antibody to bad information
Is good information. To have an overabundance of information so that the truth clashes with the falsehood, and in the long run, human beings judge for themselves.”
Poilievre: Comparisons to Donald Trump are unfair and inaccurate
“No, I don't think so. I don't, I mean, we don't really share anything in common. I mean, he comes from an extremely privileged background. He, you know, he was born into a very wealthy millionaire family, and I was born in very humble beginnings. There's a lot…”