CONSEVATIVE Party Leader Pierre Poilievre on Sunday attacked the Liberals, saying: “After the lost Liberal decade, the question is whether Canadians can afford a fourth term of out-of-touch Liberals, inflating housing and food costs, unleashing crime, ruining immigration, hiking taxes, blocking resource jobs and making our economy weak and reliant on the U.S.”
He added: “Or is it time to put Canada first—for a change, with a new Conservative government that will axe taxes, build homes, cut waste, lock-up criminals, secure our borders and unleash our resources to bring home our jobs and stand up to Trump from a position of strength?”
Poilievre said: “Now, I know many people are anxious and angry about the outrageous attacks that President Trump has made against our country. You worry about the cost of his unjust tariffs on your jobs and threats to our sovereignty. Our challenge now is to turn that anger and anxiety into action.
“We must become strong, self-reliant and stand on our own feet—to stand up to the Americans. We will stare down this unprovoked threat with steely resolve, because, be assured, we will never be part of the United States and we will never ever give up our sovereignty and our freedom.”
The Conservative Leader said: “Now, desperate for a fourth term, the Liberals have swapped Justin Trudeau for his economic advisor and hand-picked successor, Mark Carney. But a Liberal is a Liberal is a Liberal. It’s still the same old Liberal MPs, same Liberal ministers, same Liberal advisors, same Liberal elites and same Liberal broken promises of the last 10 years.”
He said that with a Conservative government, “it starts with a big bring it home tax cut on work, homes, energy and investment. Lower taxes for a change to bring home businesses and jobs and let Canadians bring home more of their paycheques.”
He added: “That starts with axing the carbon tax—a tax that the Liberals, with Mr. Carney’s enthusiastic support, have imposed and increased for seven years; a tax that is still in law, despite the government hiding it from gas stations for 30 days leading up to the election; a tax they will bring back bigger than ever before if re-elected.”
Poilievre said: “A new Conservative government will fully repeal the Liberal carbon tax law and axe the tax for everything, for everyone, for real, for good, for a change.
“We will also axe the sales tax on new homes and incentivize municipalities to speed up permits, free up land and cut building taxes to restore the dream of homeownership.
“We will bring home our resource jobs—for a change. That means repealing the Liberal No-New-Pipelines Law C-69, lifting the Liberal cap on energy that Carney said he will keep, and quickly approving LNG plants, pipelines, mines, and major projects. New Canada First Shovel Ready Zones will pre-permit big projects, so industry can stop filling out paperwork and start building now.
“With a new national pipeline—like the one the Liberals blocked a few years back—we could send prairie oil to the Maritimes and over the Atlantic to break Europe’s dependence on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin while we break our dependence on the United States.
“We will knock down interprovincial trade barriers creating one open free market economy. Moving more goods, services, resources and people across the country will bring it home and bring us together as a country.
“We will restore the promise of safe communities by stopping the crime—for a change. That means repealing the Liberal catch-and-release laws and imposing mandatory jail time for repeat offenders, banning hard drugs and offering generous recovery treatment to bring our loved ones home drug-free.
“We will cap immigration, stop the radical and dangerous Liberal Century Initiative that would balloon Canada’s population to 100 million people, more than doubling the population of our cities during a housing crisis. We will keep out and deport criminals, stop fraud and crack down on bogus refugee claims. On immigration, like everything else, we will put Canada First. For a change.
“We will rebuild our military for a change with new ice breakers, a new arctic base, more troops, and better support for our veterans.”
