Andrew Scheer is strong and ready for Canada
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Learn English with Stephen Harper. Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers a keynote address at the Conservative Party Convention in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on Saturday, July 20, 2019. Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister of Canada and the leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons.
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You are listening to The Blueprint, Canada's Conservative Podcast.
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Is the Prime Minister actually saying that taxpayers should be on the hook when he breaks the law?
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What is it going to take for the Prime Minister to have any respect for any laws in this country that may curb his out-of-control behaviour?
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All these deficits leading to nothing but burying Canadians in taxes.
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Peter, I know I speak for all Conservatives when I say thank you.
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Thank you for your years of selfless service to our unified Conservative Party.
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We all know that Peter is someone who set his personal interests aside for the good of our party,
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who decided to build up and not to tear down, and our party is a living testament to his hard work.
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And I want to say, Peter, a big congratulations to you and your wife Nazanim on the birth of their third child.
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And I want to say thank you to the dozens of Conservative leaders from all over the country,
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all elected officials who are here with us this weekend.
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We certainly are one big, strong, united, National Conservative Party.
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And I want to say thank you to the dozens of Conservative leaders from all over the country,
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all elected officials who are here with us this weekend.
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We certainly are one big, strong, united, National Conservative Party.
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And in a little over a year, we will once again be a strong, stable, National Conservative Party.
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We are one big, stable, national, majority, Conservative, government.
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We are one big, strong, stable, national, majority, Conservative, government.
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But first of all, thank you to all of you for being here at Halifax this weekend.
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I've even heard of some folks driving all the way from British Columbia to be here. Driving.
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Now, I have taken a lot of long drives in our minivan with our five kids.
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I cannot imagine what that must have been like to get from BC to Halifax.
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I want you all to know how much that means to me and our entire team.
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And I'm looking out at more than 3,000 committed Conservatives, nearly 70% of whom are attending their first ever political convention. Welcome.
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And I've never been more honored, more proud or more happy to direct this big party.
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I've been waiting for this weekend for a long time. And I know you too.
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It's great to be among new friends, to forge new relationships, to connect with fellow Conservatives you might not have seen for a few years.
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And especially in the middle of a gorgeous Atlantic summer in a city as beautiful and historic as Halifax.
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And indeed, we have a lot to celebrate. We are out fundraising the governing Liberal Party by a margin of 2 to 1.
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Thank you to all of you who contribute. We're nominating impressive candidates in every part of this country.
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And we're standing up for Canadians every single day.
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And we're winning on the issues that matter to Canadians.
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And we're winning at the ballot box, ladies and gentlemen.
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We are winning at the election. We have won the fight against the carbon tax.
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We are fighting for free exchange. We support a legal and ordained immigration.
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Et grâce à tout ça, nous remportons des élections à des endroits où personne ne nous donnait une chance.
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You know, in Chicoutimi-le-Fjord, we went from 16% of the vote just three years ago
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I know people from all over Canada might be looking at some safe Quebec seats to run in the next election for the Conservative Party.
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But you know what? We didn't win by compromising.
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We didn't win by trying to impress people who will never like us,
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or by changing who we are or what we believe in.
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We won the best way there is to win, the only way there is to win, as far as I'm concerned.
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We worked harder, our ideas were better, and we stayed true to our Conservative principles.
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And what I'm saying is this, if we can win on our principles by staying true to ourselves,
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in ridings like Chicoutimi-le-Fjord, there is nowhere in this country that we can't win in 2019.
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This road was opened on July 18th, in Chicoutimi-le-Fjord, a circumscription that we have lost 20 years ago.
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This road was opened on July 18th, in Chicoutimi-le-Fjord, a circumscription that we have lost 20 years ago.
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It's the work of our whole team that has contributed to this historic victory in Saguenay.
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I am so proud to have in our family the new deputy of Chicoutimi-le-Fjord, Richard Martel.
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And if we remain united, if we continue to work hard, if we remain faithful to our principles,
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in a few months, the path of Conservative victories will cross all the country.
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Now, ladies and gentlemen, this weekend is about a lot of things.
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It's about celebrating how far we've come in the last year.
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It's about affirming our principles and articulating our vision.
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But most importantly, it's about all the people we fight for every single day.
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They took us out on a trip there with my family and they taught us all about their way of life and how they earn a living.
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They're up during the season every day at 3 a.m. no matter what the weather,
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braving the ocean conditions to earn a living for their families.
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They told me it's hard, grueling work and they absolutely love it.
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And they are absolutely terrified about what a carbon tax will do to their lives.
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It's about the dozens of workers at a plastics plant I visited in Markham, Ontario,
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who have already had to cut their work week down to five shifts a week, from five shifts a week down to four,
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because it was getting too expensive to have the plant run every day.
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And the owner told me that the plant in Markham does everything that could be done just south of the border.
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He could move it across the border at less cost and greater profit.
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But with rising costs, he doesn't know how much longer he can hold out.
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You know, I was in New Brunswick a few weeks ago, visiting the Moncton Farmers Market.
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I was making my way through the booths and I saw this woman who was selling soaps.
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And she extended her hand to me as I was walking by with a troubled look in her face.
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And she came up to me and she put her hand out.
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I shook her hand and she looked at me and she said,
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I have had many conversations with Jill where I start off that way.
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This was kind of odd to be on the receiving end.
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She kept looking at me saying, I'm just, I'm so sorry.
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And I thought, what on earth could this woman have possibly done?
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So she looked at me straight in the eye and she just said,
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But the more I thought about that encounter since then, the more I realized that it's not all that funny.
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This woman, a small business owner who worked hard, trusted Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party.
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She believed when she said that he would protect the middle class.
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She believed that he had his best interests at heart.
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That he would reduce the income of the middle class
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Now, Justin Trudeau has failed this woman by failing to deliver what he promised.
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That she's worried about making ends meet with new taxes and rising costs.
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Justin Trudeau has no idea what she or any middle class Canadian family is going through
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He has no concept about how to stretch a dollar.
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But in a lot of ways, my story begins on Cawthra Road.
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A four lane road linking the Lake Ontario waterfront in Mississauga
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Well, you'll know that now, all up and down Cawthra Road,
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There's apartments, there's banks, schools, warehouses, lots of businesses
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But 70 years ago, 75 years ago, it was a dirt road where my grandparents,
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My grandfather was a factory worker at Massey Ferguson,
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while my grandfather stayed home in just a tiny one-storey house.
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My mother Mary, she was born first, and eight kids came after.
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From a young age, my grandparents sacrificed, and my mom sacrificed with them.
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She actually helped raise her brothers and sisters,
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while my grandfather worked long shifts at the factory,
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and while my grandmother grew vegetables in the backyard,
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and patched together the hand-me-down clothes to be passed along to the next kid.
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Right after high school, my mom became a nurse.
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She actually got hired as one of the original nurses at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
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Before she moved to Ottawa, she saved up enough money to pay for a second-floor addition to her parents' house.
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And after that, it must have felt like a mansion.
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And that's what it was like in our own family growing up.
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My mom simply went from sacrificing for her siblings to sacrificing for children of her own.
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My parents, my mom and dad, we lived in a small townhouse in Ottawa.
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My dad would always tell us that we'd have more money
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if the government didn't take so much on the front end, but we got by.
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We didn't own a car, so we had to take the bus everywhere we went.
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And if you think it's easy to convince a girl to meet you at the bus stop in January in Ottawa,
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But they did that, and they made lots of choices going without for themselves
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so that my sisters and I could have the things we want to dance for them, sports for me,
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lots of the little things that all of us have had to do to make choices for our own kids.
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She passed away last year just before I was elected leader.
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But I like to think she passed away knowing that she instilled in me a lasting obligation
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to make life even just a little bit better for the people around me and the people I serve.
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To raise my three daughters and two sons with the same strength and optimism that she showed
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To give of myself so the burdens of others might be lighter, just as she did her whole
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This country has bestowed such fortune and opportunity on my family that I stand before you running to be the next Prime Minister one generation removed from having nine kids in a two-bedroom bungalow along a dirt road.
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That right there is Canada, ladies and gentlemen, and it's worth fighting to protect.
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Ladies and gentlemen, as the history of our party shows clearly, conservatives win when we apply our strongest and fundamental principles to the modern problem that Canadians and Canadians face.
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And I am so proud to stand before you today knowing that we are the Party of Canada's first Prime Minister, the father of our Federation, and the visionary who made this land possible, the great Sir John A. Macdonald.
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You know, the Liberal Party of Canada's elite donor program is called the Laurier Club.
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Now, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Liberal Prime Minister, signed an executive order,
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signed an order in council in 1911 banning black immigrants to Canada,
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but he was also the architect of the Canadian Navy and a pioneer of free trade with the United States.
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Do we hear voices from the left saying that we better take his name off of everything and rename universities?
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William Lyon Mackenzie King, another Liberal Prime Minister,
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the man who navigated Canada through the Great Depression and led the country during World War II,
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closed Canada's doors to Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
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And his own government at the time said, none is too many.
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Will the Liberals work to take his face off the $50 bill? No.
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But you can see how divisive this approach is, how destructive this is to our Canadian identity.
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We can and we should celebrate the giants of our history, like Macdonald, Laurier and King,
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We can absolutely look to the past and learn from the mistakes that were made at the time,
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while still celebrating the contributions that made Canada so great along the way.
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But friends, if we look back on our history and our leaders and only see their blemishes,
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we miss out on a beautiful story of a great country that has progressed into the safest,
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I have become the leader of this party for about 15 months.
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I have become the leader of this party for about 15 months.
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It was a difficult and vigorous campaign, and a big step ahead for our party.
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We have chosen the only second chef that this party had received in 13 years.
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When I won, we were at about 10 points behind the Liberals.
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Justin Trudeau was always the coquelicouche of the international elite and celebrities.
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You know, a year ago, when I was traveling around the country and people would stop me and say hello,
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Now, when people see me, they grab me by the hand, both hands on my arm,
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Because the Liberal Party is finally showing its true colors.
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The tax-hiking, rule-breaking, perk-loving, deficit-spending,
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Liberals Canadians have come to know and despise.
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Justin Trudeau tries to say that Canada's back.
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Back to ignoring the rules and abusing the privileges of power.
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Just recently, we saw the government interfere in a process
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to award a clam-fishing license to a fake company
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Todd Doherty knows it's the clam scam in Newfoundland.
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Bill Morneau, the finance minister, introduced a law regulating pension companies,
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while still holding millions of shares in his former family firm that regulated,
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In 2016, we all remember, Justin Trudeau accepted a private helicopter ride
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to a luxury island vacation from someone who was registered to lobby his government.
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The Prime Minister broke the law, as the Ethics Commissioner so clearly confirmed.
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But hey, it was no big deal, because to Trudeau and the Liberals, the rules just don't apply to them.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is how Liberals have always governed the country.
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And if Justin Trudeau is engaged in this kind of corruption only three years into his term,
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just imagine what he would get up to if he had a second term.
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Liberals are also back to raising taxes and squeezing the middle class.
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People are getting by, but they aren't getting ahead.
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There's only a little left at the end of the month, and everything keeps getting more expensive.
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The federal government should not make life more expensive.
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As Prime Minister, I'm going to make sure the government takes less money off of every paycheck
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The Canadians and Canadians from all over the country say that they really wonder if their future will be better.
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In fact, more than half of Canadians every month are close to not being able to pay their taxes every month.
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Since the Liberals have won in 2015, more than 80% of Canadians from the middle class pay more taxes for an increase of more than 800 dollars.
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And the Liberals have annuled all fiscal payments for students and children's activities.
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Gas prices have reached record levels across the country.
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When he was asked about how this was affecting the day-to-day life of Canadians, Justin Trudeau actually celebrated it.
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He said, higher gas prices are, quote, exactly what we want.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this kind of out-of-touch, elitist thinking is typical of Liberal arrogance.
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Millionaire Liberals like Justin Trudeau may want to pay higher gas prices, but the hard-working Canadians that we're fighting for sure don't.
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Back to embarrassing Canada on the world stage and damaging relationships with important allies.
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Under Justin Trudeau's, Canada's international trading prospects have never looked more grim.
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And that is a huge problem when one in five Canadian jobs rely on free trade.
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The President of the United States is anti-free trade.
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And Donald Trump has been crystal clear all along that he's out to cause us pain and to steal our jobs.
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But standing up to Donald Trump starts by making sure that Canada is strong.
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We need to stop pumping cheap fuel into the American economy.
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We need to compete with other countries on taxation and regulation instead of rolling over.
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From Japan, to India, to Australia, Justin Trudeau has
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From Japan, to India, to Australia, Justin Trudeau has embarrassed Canada and has failed
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to open new markets, and those failures have consequences for Canadians, and Conservatives
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are going to work very hard to repair that damage.
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Earlier this year, I went to the United Kingdom, where I met with Prime Minister Theresa May,
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laying the groundwork for future negotiations for when we form government in 2019.
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And in October, I'm headed to India to do the same.
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But don't worry, I don't dance and I'm not bringing a celebrity chef along with
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The point is, international trade and foreign affairs is a serious endeavour, requiring
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It's time for the grown-ups to be in charge again.
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The President of the United Kingdom has always been part of the federalists, paternalists and
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The President of the United Kingdom has always been part of the federalists, paternalists and
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The President of the United Kingdom has always been part of the federalists, paternalists and
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The President of the United Kingdom has always worked for the autonomy of the provinces, and
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The President of the United Kingdom has always been part of the support of the European Union.
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The President of the United Kingdom has always been part of the support of the country.
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double-rapport d'impĂ´ts. Justin Trudeau does not listen to those who have enough
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each year to fill two-rapport d'impĂ´ts. He does not listen and understand the everyday
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world of ordinary people. Do you know why, my friends? Because Justin Trudeau lives in
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this world, the callineurs, the licornes and the little dolphins.
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Well, we have heard you. We are going to act. The return to the reason is close. When I
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will be Prime Minister, the Quebec contributions will only fill a single-rapport d'impĂ´ts
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comme l'ensemble des Canadiens. Sérieusement, je prends cet engagement populaire dès maintenant
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The Liberals are also back to bankrupting this country. Remember when Justin Trudeau talked
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about his temporary tiny deficits? Well, turns out, not so tiny and definitely not so temporary.
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This government has racked up $73 billion in new debt. But what do we have to show for
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it? What do you have? Your wages haven't gone up, but I know your taxes have. This failure
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has real consequences. Canadians don't have more money left over at the end of the month
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and they have less money to spend as they see fit.
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And why are Conservatives so passionate about this issue? Because every year that we're in
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a deficit, we're borrowing money from my kids and from yours. Deficits today mean higher taxes
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tomorrow. It really is that simple. And not one of us, not a single one of us in this room
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would leave a credit card bill to those who come after us.
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What Justin Trudeau is doing is robbing from our children and it's just wrong. Under my leadership,
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the deficits will come to an end. We will balance the budget once again and put Canada's fiscal
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They have environmental plans that may seem to be good, but they do nothing to reduce emissions
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and reduce our industry. In terms of environment, the Conservatives will maintain low emissions
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and continue to improve our environmental performance. But we will not destroy the economic
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The best way to reduce global emissions is not to shut down the Canadian industry, it's
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You know, here's just one example. Canada leads the world in tough environmental standards.
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We do so much so well at the best levels of responsible development. Here's a great example.
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In China, manufacturing a ton of aluminum produces 17 tons of CO2. In Canada, it produces just two.
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That means we would actually grow our economy and reduce global emissions if more of that
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Not punishing people for heating their homes or driving their cars, but luring investment
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away from countries with lower environmental standards and bringing it home to Canada.
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Now, speaking of pointless gestures that will cost Canadians a lot of money and do nothing for
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the world's climate, let me talk about the carbon tax. There is no idea in Canada that has
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had a worse year than the carbon tax. And I remember not so long ago when pundits and experts were
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writing obituaries for Conservative parties for not supporting a carbon tax. Now they're writing obituaries
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Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals in Ontario? Gone. Thank you, Ford Nation.
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Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party are about to take care of the NDP in Alberta.
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Even Liberals are running away from it. In PEI, the Liberal government will submit a plan this fall that won't include a carbon tax.
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You know, I remember I was watching the Ontario election. And I gotta tell you, one of the most frustrating days was when
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a poll came out that said that the people in Ontario opposed the carbon tax at a rate of seven out of ten.
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Seven out of ten people in Ontario were opposed to the carbon tax. And I saw an article with one of these experts who was
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writing a very intellectual article in one of the major newspapers. And the gist of the article was along the lines of,
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and I think one of the actual quotes was, the people of Ontario don't support the carbon tax because they just don't understand it.
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Now, I've traveled all over this country. There is a carbon tax revolt brewing. And I can tell you, the reason more and more
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Canadians don't support the carbon tax is precisely because we do understand it.
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And even Justin Strudeau is starting to cave, but he can't even get walking away from his own policy right.
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Instead of just getting rid of the carbon tax altogether, he's decided to give big businesses and big polluters
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a huge break. This summer, he very quietly exempted 90% of their emissions from his tax.
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Now, that means the single mother will still pay the tax on 100% of the gas she buys to drive to work,
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the groceries she buys to feed her kids. But industrial polluters and big businesses with their powerful lobbyists
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will enjoy a massive loophole. Now, Conservatives know the carbon tax just isn't bad for big business.
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And that's why, come 2019, my first act as Prime Minister will be to get rid of the carbon tax once and for all.
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More and more Canadians are seeing through all of these Liberal deceptions.
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You know, Liberals always like to try and wrap themselves up in good intentions.
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But their policies invariably hurt the very people they claim they want to help.
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They try and convince people that they're motivated by compassion.
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But we all know that there is nothing compassionate about their policies.
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There is nothing compassionate about a deficit.
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There is nothing fair about leaving the next generation of Canadians a mountain of new debt,
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with more and more of their tax dollars going to pay bankers and creditors.
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There is nothingöllnint to endanger millions of businesses
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petites entreprises, ou Ă Ă©touffer les familles qui tentent de joindre les deux
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bouts avec plus d'impĂ´ts. And there is absolutely nothing compassionate about
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allowing thousands to cross the border illegally from a safe place like upstate
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New York, jumping ahead of those in refugee camps, fleeing violence and
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This failure again has real consequences for both taxpayers and those who are
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seeking to come to Canada the right way. Those waiting to be reunited with a loved
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one or those in dangerous places around the world waiting their turn following
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the rules. Those are the consequences of the Liberal failure on this file. And I
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won't let Liberals claim a monopoly on compassion, ladies and gentlemen,
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especially when it's conservative principles that actually help people
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Now, there's been a lot of talk about diversity in the last couple of weeks and
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I am so proud to be the leader of a party that has so much to celebrate, so many
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firsts when it comes to diversity in this country. Justin Trudeau says that
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diversity is our strength but I think he's missing the big picture. The reasons why
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waves and waves of immigrants from all over the world, all corners of the globe, have
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chosen Canada generation after generation. It's because we are free. Free to worship
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and free to speak and free to believe. It's because we are open. Open to the
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persecuted and the oppressed. It's because we are equal. Equal as individuals. Equal in
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opportunity. Equal before the law and equal in value.
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It is because of all these things that we are diverse. Diversity is a product of our
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our strength. Our strength is and always has been our freedom.
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And I don't think I can put it any better than the last Prime Minister to come from Saskatchewan. As John Diefenbaker said,
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I am a Canadian. Free to speak without fear. Free to worship in my own way. Free to stand for what I think
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right. Free to oppose what I believe wrong. Free to oppose what I believe wrong. Free to choose those who shall govern my country.
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This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and for all mankind.
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This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and for all mankind.
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This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and for all mankind.
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Those are principles that create unity, ladies and gentlemen. And there is a
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unity in our diversity when we rally around those principles.
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Now some will have you believe that our rights come from the identity groups the government puts us in.
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But Conservatives know our rights come from the fact that we are individual Canadians.
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And in our politics today the forces of political correctness are converging on contrary ideas and even on legitimate criticism.
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On deeply held personal convictions and complex matters of individual choice.
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Justin Trudeau wants this. He wants to impose his personal views on the country and demonize those who don't accept them.
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But Conservatives won't let Trudeau avoid accountability for his decisions by smearing and name-calling those who dare to criticise him.
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And we already know that the political context in Quebec would be very different in 2019.
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Le Bloc et le NPD foncent dans un mur. Merci beaucoup Martine.
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Il n'y a qu'une seule alternative sérieuse à Justin Trudeau et c'est nous.
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En effet, il reste sur le champ de bataille deux adversaires historiques, les conservateurs et les libéraux.
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Vous savez, deux parties, c'est assez. Un bon et une mauvaise.
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Et le contraste entre conservateurs et libéraux n'a jamais été aussi clair.
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Le choix se dessine déjà . Une partie à l'écoute, compétent, qui ressemble aux Québécois, le Parti conservateur.
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Ou une partie qui accume les échecs, qui démontre son et compétence et qui pousse les idées de maintenant masser le Parti libéral.
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Mes amis, je suis très confiant en vue des prochaines élections.
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Je suis sur le terrain partout et à l'écoute des Québécois.
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Les gens viennent vers nous. Ils veulent discuter avec nous. Ils sont intéressés par nos idées.
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Ils constatent que derrière l'image, le bilingue de Justin Trudeau se résume en trois mots.
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Nous sommes Ă l'Ă©coute de la population et la plateforme conservatrice sera la vĂ´tre.
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En 2019, les idées, l'écoute et la compétence auront le dessus sur l'image, l'errogance et les discours vides.
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Il nous reste encore plus ou moins un an à endurer les chèques des libéraux avant que le ciel redevienne bleu.
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Et ne laissez jamais personne vous dire que les valeurs conservatrices ne sont pas des valeurs québécoises.
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Mes amis, les conservateurs du Québec peuvent se présenter dans n'importe quelle région la tête haute.
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Since the last federal election, our greatest results and achievements have actually been in the province of Québec.
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And in 2019, with the same determination and pride, and with a renewed platform,
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and a solid organisation and great candidates, we will lead our team to the best results yet.
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I personally encourage myself to pursue the efforts to continue to connect more with the Francophones around the country.
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Ma détermination est grande et je souhaite qu'on utilise toutes les tribunes pour passer notre message conservateur.
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Et c'est dans cet esprit que je n'ai pas hésité un second à aller sur le plateau de l'émission « Tout le monde en parle ».
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Ensemble, nous redonnerons au Canada ce qu'il mérite.
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Un gouvernement conservateur, solide et efficace, avec une équipe québécoise forte et déterminée.
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Un gouvernement conservateur, solide et déminée.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Conservatives are united, we're strong, we're ready, and we're winning.
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Across provincial borders, Conservatives are coming together and winning.
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What Scott Moe is continuing doing in Saskatchewan.
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Nous sommes unis dans nos principes et notre but.
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Nous défendons vigoureusement les attaques envers nos libertaires, économiques et individuelles,
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et offrons une vision du Canada où tout le monde pour réussir.
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Conservatives know that people, all people, no matter where they live or what they do,
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are best served when governments stand down and allow individuals, families and communities
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And you watch how Canadians will respond if we allow that fundamental belief to continue to guide us.
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I'm going to say right now, it's going to be a lot of hard work.
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The Liberals and all their friends are going to throw everything they've got at us.
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Andrew! Andrew! Andrew! Andrew! Andrew! Andrew! Andrew! Andrew! Andrew! Andrew! Andrew! Andrew!
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But as you're out there knocking on doors and talking to your neighbours, I want you
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While you're out talking to Canadians about what we're going to do, about the failures
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of the Liberal government and the consequences they've had on making life harder for Canadians,
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I want you to dream about the country that we'll be building.
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And think about, what if we had a government that understood that a free people making
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free decisions was the best way to improve the quality of life and create prosperity for
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What if, what if we had a government that believed that there was enough space in our public debate
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for values and viewpoints it didn't agree with?
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What if we had a government that didn't always just look back into our history looking for
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reasons to be ashamed, but instead for reasons to be proud?
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What if we had a government that knew that the best way to fight against protection is to
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make Canada the most attractive place in the world to invest and to create jobs?
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And what if we had a government that was led by a Prime Minister that actually understood
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the everyday problems Canadians face and govern with a clear plan to help them?
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This, this is what the Conservative Party will offer.
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A country where people aren't just there to pay taxes to a big government, they're there
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A country where we work with First Nations as partners in our shared prosperity instead
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of talking down to them with empty gestures and symbolism.
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A country where wealth isn't taxed and regulated and controlled, but created, unleashed and multiplied.
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Where the government realizes the best way to ensure that more Canadians get ahead is by
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Where we can build big nation-building projects, the kinds of things that bring us closer together
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as a people, and make it easier for one part of the country to benefit from the prosperity
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And that is why a Conservative government will repeal the Liberal regulatory changes and get
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is my positive Conservative vision.
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Where taxes are low, government is limited, but opportunity is unlimited.
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Where freedom is celebrated and people are put before government.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that's what we're going to build together.
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