Pierre Poilievre speaks to the press on non confidence #canada #news

Hello everyone, this is another very good day. I just finished my Coast Canada tour, my common-sense tour where I share my simple cutting plan to build houses, fix the budget, and stop the crime. It's a tour that took me to Quebec on several occasions to see the beautiful Quebec nation, and above all, its extraordinary workers. workers in forestry, in the aluminum sector, farmers, fishermen, and others who are working hard to build our country. I've noticed the incredible energy and courage of our workers. Workers who have always been able to live up to Canada's promise. Canada's promise to to all young people that anyone, from anywhere, can do anything. It's a promise Canada made to me when I was born to a single mother who was just16. A promise my parents made to me, two teachers told me that if I worked hard, I could have a good life. And this applies to everyone. This was before the Liberal-Bloc coalition government. But after nine years of the bloc and liberals, everything costs more. After taxes and inflationary deficit, the cost of living ballooned and doubled the national debt. Work no longer pays, you earn it, the liberal and bloc takes it. The cost of housing has doubled and risen faster than any other G7countries. much more expensive here in Canada than in the U.S. Crime and drugs are present in our once safe streets. And what is the Bloc doing in the face of the most centralizing and costly government in Canadian history? The Bloc voted to keep the most centralizing and costly government in our history. They've done this 188 times. The Bloc voted for budget and appropriation totaling $500 billion. This is half a trillion. I had to use the word, to learn the word trillion, because I wasn't aware that the word trillion existed in French. Sometimes you have to learn other words to be able to express the size of the debt while respecting Canada's Official Languages Act. So, in French, a trillion is $1,000,000,000,000. Our debt doubled. And it's strange that a so-called sovereignist party still votes to take money away from Quebeckers and centralize it here in Ottawa. The Bloc voted for the carbon tax, and this does apply to Quebec. It's $0.17 a litre. They vote in favour to raise capital gain taxes on Quebec farmers, entrepreneurs, and doctors. And now, the Bloc threatens to vote again to keep Justin Trudeau in power, at a time when we have finally the chance to defeat Trudeau and trigger elections, to bring about real change based on common sense. What does Yves-François Blanchet have to say about keeping Justin Trudeau in power? I have an announcement for you today. The common-sense conservatives are going to put forward a motion of non-confidence as quickly as possible to trigger an election on taxes and centralizing policies. So I do have a question for the Bloc. Will the Bloc vote for Quebecers by calling this election and making it a defeat for Justin Trudeau? Or will the Bloc vote to keep the most centralizing and costly government in our history. That's the decision for the Bloc. They have to make it before the by-election. Because the Bloc doesn't want people to know in the by-election that they're keeping Justin Trudeau in power. So I'm issuing a challenge to Yves-François Blanchet. Enough is enough. Please announce today, are you going to vote for a motion of non-confidence, or are you going to keep Justin Trudeau in power? That's your decision. My mind is made-up. I want an election to elect a common-sense government that will cut taxes, build housing, fix the budget, and stop the crime. We're going to tax cuts to make life more affordable and work more rewarding. We will fix the budget by freezing spending, eliminating bureaucracy, waste, and contracts to consultants. This will enable us to reduce the deficit, taxes, as well as inflation. We will encourage municipalities to speed up building permits, free up land, and cut taxes on development to build affordable housing for Quebecers and all Canadians. We're going to stop crime by putting real criminals in jail, by securing our borders to keep drugs and guns out. And we're going to allow hunters to keep their properties. That's the common sense. This is what we need to rebuild the Canada that we love, a Canada where everyone can do anything, and everyone can have a good life. Thank you very much. Seeing the extraordinary people, the farmers and fishermen, the factory workers and forestry workers, the hardworking people, the soldiers who protect our country and keep it glorious and free, they reminded me of the Canadian promise, the promise that anyone from anywhere could do anything, that hard work would get you a powerful paycheck that bought affordable food, gas, and homes in safe neighborhoods, a country where it didn't matter where you came from, itmattered where you were going, it didn't matter who you knew, it mattered what you coulddo. That's the country that I inherited. I was born of humble means and raised by schoolteachers. The country my wife came to as a refugee from Venezuela, six people in a two-bedroom basement apartment in Montreal, but look at the success they've enjoyed. That was the Canadian promise. But after nine years of the NDP Liberals, that promise is broken. Everything costs more because of money-printing deficits that destroy our money and our dollar, and high taxes that punish work and destroy paychecks. A carbon tax that's now 17 cents a litre, which the NDP Liberals have voted and budgeted to increase to 61 cents a litre. That tax increase would grind our economy to a halt. The trucks and trains that deliver the goods to our supermarkets would stoprolling. Their drivers would be unemployed. The factories that ship their goods in those trucks and trains would shut down. It would be like a nuclear winter for our economy if the Trudeau NDP Liberalagenda of hiking the carbon tax to 61 cents a litre were to go ahead. Now hard work doesn't pay. You earn it. The NDP Liberals take it from you. Housing costs have doubled. rising housing prices in Canada than in any other G7 country. Now 25 to 45% more expensive. We have middle class workers living in cars and tents. Tent cities have now become common in every single centre across this country where they never existed before in once pristine and beautiful community parks. We now have people living in tents either because they can't afford homes or because the radical NDP liberal agenda of flooding our communities with taxpayer-funded and decriminalized hard drugs has addicted our people, leaving them lying on pavement, their contorted bodies half lifeless. Maybe they will be among – maybe they are among the 44,000 people who have died of overdoses in the last nine years of this chaotic policy. Our borders have lost all their security. Ninety-nine percent of shipping containers go uninspected. That's where all the drugs and guns come in, leading to a 120 percent increase ingun violence under Justin Trudeau's radical agenda of banning hunting rifles whileallowing criminals to run free. Catch-and-release criminal justice has made us all lose our security. Now Jagmeet Singh, who supported all these policies, in fact pushed for them to happen, says that Justin Trudeau is radioactive. And right before the by-elections, Singh suddenly had a change of heart, or so he said, publishing a video claiming that he was no longer in the costly coalition. Well, let's look at the wording. The costly coalition is called a supply and confidence agreement. So if you're polling out, you have to vote non-confidence. If you don't, you're still in the agreement. No matter what your video stunt, what have everyone else believe? So the question that Jagmeet Singh has been asked 31 times in the last week, and he has refused to answer is whether he will vote non-confidence to trigger a carbon tax election. Why is that? Well, let's just inspect the timing here for a second. He did his video two days before voting started in those by-elections, trying to trick people into thinking he was no longer part of the coalition. The by-elections will be held on Monday, after which he can just change his mind and go back to voting to keep Trudeau in power. So I have an announcement and a challenge. I'm announcing that Common Sense Conservatives will put forward a non-confidence motion at the earliest possible opportunity. And I'm asking Jagmeet Singh and the NDP to commit unequivocally before Monday's by-elections. Will they vote non-confidence to bring down the costly coalition and trigger acarbon tax election, or will Jagmeet Singh sell out Canadians again? Which will it be? It's put-up or shut-up time for the NDP. There will be a carbon tax election, and in it, Canadians will decide whether they keep the NDP Liberals in power to tax your food, punish your work, double your housing cost, unleash crime, chaos, drugs and disorder on our streets? Will they vote for a 61-cent-a-litre carbon tax, or will they elect a common-sense Conservative government that will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop thecrime? We need to bring them down now because otherwise Carbon Tax Carney's agenda will predominate. We found out that there's a new phantom finance minister. They have a lame duck minister right now who Trudeau is pushing aside, just like he pushed aside other female ministers, and he's bringing in Carbon Tax Carney, someone who has too many conflicts to hold the real position. Trudeau said he offered Carbon Tax Kearney the real job, but that caused adilemma. Would Carbon Tax Kearney pick power or money? And he said, I know, I'll have both. He keeps the money with his chairmanship of a large multinational corporation that's moving investment to China that buys pipelines in Latin America and the Middle East while he opposes them here in Canada. He gets to push his radical Davos agenda of you will own nothing and be happy, while at the same time, he doesn't have to respect any of the contra conflict of interest laws. He doesn't have to have his interests and his investments exposed online like the rest of us. He gets all the power and all the money and none of the accountability. And my worry is that he's going to push for a higher carbon tax. And we know that because when Trudeau relented under my pressure and paused the carbon tax on home heating for oil-heated homes, Carbon Tax Carney stood up and said, no, there should be a tax on home heating right now. In other words, Carbon Tax Carney believes the tax doesn't go far enough. I have quotes from his book here, and I raise this with you because he was trying to weasel out and keep his position secret in yesterday's press conference. Here's what he said in his book. The Canadian federal carbon pricing framework is a model for others. One of the most important initiatives is carbon pricing. The best approach is revenue-neutral progressive carbon tax. These are among the reasons why people are starting to know him as Carbon TaxKearney. There we go, even a nice little horn to mark the occasion. Carbon Tax Kearney, it's now official. That is his name, and he has a radical agenda. My message to Carbon Tax Kearney is come in from out of the shadows. We don't need a phantom finance minister. If you are going to be pulling the strings, you should be on the floor of the House of Commons with your massive financial interests and your foreign interests, disclose to Canadians. Stop pushing to kill Canadian jobs while you ship the jobs abroad. Make your carbon tax agenda known and be held accountable for Canadians so that we can choose in the carbon tax election. And when we do, common-sense Conservatives will bring home the country we know and love, where hard work earns a powerful paycheck that buys affordable food, gas, and homes in safe neighbourhoods, where anyone from anywhere can do anything, where theCanadian promise is restored. Now let's bring it home. The international cap on international students, sir, would you continue that going forward? It's only two years that Liberals have implemented it. Yes, we would continue going forward. We can't. We're going to bring home the international student system we had before Justin Trudeau, which was a modest number of young people who were extremely promising, could come here and study, and if they excelled, they followed the law, they learned English or French, they could permanently join the Canadianfamily. We brought them in in numbers that we could house, employ, and care for in the event they needed health care. That system was the best in the world. It was under Sean Fraser, who just opened the floodgates and brought in so many people that now, by the admission of Trudeau, Miller, and the entire Liberal government, it's out of control and it's hurting our housing market. In Brampton, they found 26 international students living in one basement, in onehouse. Kids are being sold into sex slavery and are being sent back to India in bodybags. This is turning into a massive humanitarian crisis entirely caused by Trudeau and the NDP Liberals. We will bring home common sense on international students, temporary foreign workers and population growth. We will cap population growth so that the housing stock always grows faster than the population. We'll have exact numbers in the next election, but we're building like 240,000 homes. That's like 1.4% increase in our housing supply. You can't grow the population faster than that unless you're going to have worse housing shortages. So we've been, under Trudeau and the NDP, we've been growing the population by almost 3%, but we grow the housing stock by 1.3%, 1.4%. No wonder we're running out of homes. That's not even a question of whether you support or not immigration. It's a question of whether you support mathematics. And humans need homes, and I don't care where they come from, it doesn't matter if you've been here for two days or your family's been here for two centuries. You need a place to live. The only way to get rid of the shortage is to build homes faster than we addpeople, and that's why we will have a mathematical formula that caps population growth below the growth in the housing stock. Both the NDP and the Bloc do not seem ready to move forward and support your motion to bring down the government. Are you confident that you can actually force an election this fall? That's up to the sell-out NDP. Are they going to put their actions where their words are? Jagmeet Singh claims that he's torn up the supply and confidence agreement. That means he has to vote non-confidence to trigger a carbon tax election. And I'm asking him to answer the question he has dodged 31 times. Will you vote non-confidence to trigger a carbon tax election at the earliestpossible time, yes or no, sellout Jagmeet Singh? Will you vote to keep your friend Justin Trudeau and the costly coalition inpower? or will you allow Canadians to choose in a carbon tax election? That is the decision. Are you in favour of a special rule if there is a work conflict? Can you repeat the question? I couldn't hear. Do you think that the federal government could impose special law. This was requested by Air Canada. Air Canada should bargain with its pilots. It's ridiculous. They are not paid as well as the American pilots. They are receiving a higher salary and they don't pay so much taxes. So I understand why the pilots are frustrated. They are not as well paid as the Americans. So I'm in favor of the pilots. I'm in favor of a bargained contract. I do not think that the federal government should Interfere. Question? Answer? To impose a resolution would be ridiculous. We will not support this decision. Last question? Answer? No, it's not the right question. It hasn't been banned. People can now be in possession of an AR-15 because of Trudeau's decision. There was an amnesty for that. These arms were never banned. So four years ago, Trudeau made a big announcement about guns, but he is unable to implement his own program. He had a press conference during the last election, and there was a graph. But what happened since then? After nine years of Trudeau, it's still legal to be in possession of AR-15. That's the reality. Now he says that if he's re-elected, and after the election, he will ban theseAR-15. It would be in what, 11 years of Trudeau's government before we can ban this type of guns? So it's not true. And once more, they don't have any budget for that. He wants to buy back these guns, but they don't have a budget for that. Justin Trudeau's program was clearly announced during a CTV interview. It was in 2022. Justin Trudeau wants to ban hunting rifles because hunters in Saguenay areresponsible for the shootings downtown Montreal. For my side, I want to make sure that we can stop gun traffic by scanning containers, reinforcing security at the border, and jailing criminals. That's the issue. We don't have to target hunters or veterans. We have to target criminals, and this is what I will do.