Western Standard - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre - Press Conference

00:00:00.000 Bonjour tout le monde, merci d'être venu.

00:00:07.000 Après huit ans de Justin Trudeau,

00:00:13.820 un sur quatre Canadiens manquent des repas

00:00:17.960 et un sur deux coupent leurs épiceries

00:00:22.780 parce qu'ils ne peuvent pas payer les factures des épiceries.

00:00:27.240 Après 8 ans de Justin Trudeau, il y a des gens qui vont aux banques alimentaires, non pas pour manger, mais pour chercher l'aide médicale à mourir.

00:00:39.740 Pas parce qu'ils sont malades, mais parce qu'ils ont faim et misérable.

00:00:46.520 Après 8 ans de Justin Trudeau, les coûts de logement ont doublé.

00:00:54.280 Le loyer a doublé.

00:00:57.080 Les paiements hypothécaires ont doublé.

00:01:00.940 Et les maisons, le prix des maisons ont doublé.

00:01:04.760 Ça fait en sorte que 9 sur 10 jeunes qui n'ont pas une maison croient qu'ils ne vont jamais en avoir une.

00:01:13.020 Donc, on a des étudiants qui vivent dans les centres d'hébergement parce qu'il y a un manque de logement.

00:01:20.160 Il y a des sans-abris, des gens qui souffrent avec la santé mentale plus que jamais après huit ans de Justin Trudeau.

00:01:30.320 Ça a causé la crise des drogues qui a tué 30 000 personnes depuis l'arrivée en pouvoir de Justin Trudeau.

00:01:42.400 Le taux de criminalité a augmenté de 32 % depuis huit ans de Justin Trudeau.

00:01:47.920 Tout semblait brisé. Les gens sont en train de souffrir ici au Canada, après huit ans de Justin Trudeau.

00:02:00.620 Mais au lieu de prendre la responsabilité pour la souffrance qu'il a causée, Justin Trudeau essaie de diviser pour distraire.

00:02:11.420 He tried to avoid the responsibility in making part of one Canadian against the other.

00:02:19.420 He thought that if you have a problem of your neighbor, you will forget that you can't pay your taxes.

00:02:28.420 If you have a problem of a camionnear, you will forget that you have a faim after 8 years of Justin Trudeau.

00:02:37.420 But believe in me, it's not me who says that, it's the deputy liberal Joel Lightbaum, and I cite, he said it to the Prime Minister.

00:02:50.840 Arrêtez de diviser les Canadiens. Cessez de dresser une partie de la population contre une autre. Je ne peux pas m'empêcher de constater, avec regret, que le ton et les politiques de mon gouvernement ont radicalement changé à la veille et au cours de la dernière élection.

00:03:12.020 D'une approche positive et unificatrice, on est passé à une décision de coincer, de diviser et de stigmatiser.

00:03:22.500 Je crains que cette polarisation de la pandémie ne risque de saper la confiance du public dans nos institutions de santé publique.

00:03:34.900 Ce n'est pas un risque que nous devons prendre à la légère. Il est temps d'en finir avec les divisions et les distractions.

00:03:45.300 Fin de citation. Les mots d'une députée libérale.

00:03:51.280 Bill Mordon, l'ancien ministre des Finances de Justin Trudeau, a dit que le premier ministre a utilisé l'enjeu des vaccins pour diviser les gens pendant les campagnes électorales.

00:04:04.900 En faisant cette division, Justin Trudeau a causé l'urgence qu'on a vu à Ottawa.

00:04:14.400 C'était lui qui a causé un problème et une manifestation qui n'étaient pas nécessaires.

00:04:20.320 Encore, le rapport de la commission Rouleau a dit que les commentaires,

00:04:27.420 Les insultes que Justin Trudeau a versées envers la population ont servi, et je cite, à énergiser les manifestants, à dourcir leur détermination et à les rendre encore plus aigres envers les autorités gouvernementales.

00:04:44.600 And the Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, said that the COVID was an opportunity for political opportunity, and it's true. And Trudeau has used it this way.

00:05:00.980 C'est malheureux. Moi, je prendrai une autre approche. Je vais unir les gens. Je vais écouter leurs histoires et essayer de comprendre la peine qu'ils souffrent. Au lieu d'attaquer les gens qui sont en souffrance, pourquoi pas nous adresser à leurs problèmes?

00:05:21.260 Moi, je vais éliminer la taxe carbone pour rendre l'essence et les épiceries plus abordables.

00:05:28.520 Je vais contrôler les dépenses pour éliminer l'inflation que le gouvernement a causé,

00:05:32.600 pour que les gens puissent manger et payer le coût de logement.

00:05:39.780 On va bâtir davantage de maisons pour que nos jeunes aient une place à vivre.

00:05:43.880 Et quand il y a une crise de santé, on va écouter toutes les voix et permettre le maximum de liberté personnelle dans les choix de santé personnelle.

00:05:55.920 C'est comme ça qu'on peut éviter ces genres de crises qu'a causé Justin Trudeau.

00:06:02.700 Today, we know that our services of information have advertised the government

00:06:12.700 during the years of an international and authoritarian government.

00:06:19.700 Justin Trudeau said that he was not aware that our services of information

00:06:26.700 They had written a report after the other, and they had shared this information with other

00:06:36.700 governments alliés, such as Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the United States,

00:06:43.700 but without informing the Prime Minister.

00:06:47.700 He said he never had the opportunity to know.

00:06:51.700 It's not true.

00:06:53.560 Trudeau was aware of this ignorance, and he accepted it because the ignorance was in his favor.

00:07:01.840 He is in favor of the ignorance of the other governments of the foreign country because it helps

00:07:08.200 in the electoral campaign.

00:07:09.940 And it's the reason why he has nothing to do for fighting the ignorance of the other countries 0.90

00:07:17.940 in our democracy, in our economy and in our population.

00:07:22.940 The Chinese people are friends.

00:07:27.940 The Chinese Canadians are one of the most patriotic,

00:07:33.940 working and honest.

00:07:36.940 But the government is unacceptable.

00:07:42.940 And we have to take concrete actions to prevent and protect the sovereignty of our country.

00:07:50.940 And that's the great good sense.

00:07:52.940 We have to bring the great good sense to us.

00:07:56.940 Thank you.

00:07:58.940 After eight years of Justin Trudeau, the cost of housing has doubled.

00:08:04.940 The cost of mortgage payments, rent, and home prices have doubled.

00:08:10.940 Which means 9 out of 10 young people who don't own a home believe they never will.

00:08:16.900 Think what that does to someone's psychology.

00:08:19.760 You're 30 years old.

00:08:21.400 You're in your parents' basement.

00:08:23.260 You can't start a family.

00:08:25.320 You can't save for your future.

00:08:27.560 You can't build credit or collateral.

00:08:30.920 And worse, based on today's high interest rates and rising costs, you calculate that you never will.

00:08:38.620 So you lose hope.

00:08:39.420 worse many homeowners are losing their houses because interest rates are going up after eight

00:08:45.920 years of justin trudeau despite the fact that his government said a low for long so those people

00:08:53.020 lose their homes end on the street and addicted to drugs after eight years of justin trudeau

00:08:59.220 30,000 people have died of drug overdoses.

00:09:04.040 Crime rages as more and more violent acts go unpunished

00:09:10.020 with a 32% increase in violent crime

00:09:13.600 after eight years of Justin Trudeau.

00:09:16.900 Meanwhile, one in four Canadians skip meals

00:09:20.600 and one in two cut back on groceries

00:09:24.020 because food prices have gone up so fast

00:09:27.260 under Justin Trudeau and his carbon tax.

00:09:31.220 People are walking into food banks asking help with medical assistance and dying.

00:09:37.620 Not because they're sick, but because they're hungry and miserable after eight years of Justin Trudeau.

00:09:47.060 Veterans who go seek help are told by their own government they should consider getting medical assistance and dying

00:09:52.040 instead of getting the service they deserve.

00:09:53.660 And finally, the government says that all those people suffering from mental health, understandably, with how badly things are going, the government says they should use medical assistance into dying.

00:10:08.520 This is the hopeless state that Justin Trudeau has created.

00:10:12.600 In Canada today, after eight years of Justin Trudeau, everything feels broken.

00:10:19.740 But instead of fixing those things, or at least taking responsibility for breaking them, the Prime Minister seeks to divide and distract.

00:10:30.800 See, he thinks that if you're afraid of your neighbor, you'll forget that you can't pay your rent.

00:10:36.060 If you're afraid of a trucker, you might forget that you're hungry and take your eyes off of the guy who caused the problem in the first place.

00:10:43.800 Now, don't take my word for it. This is what a liberal MP said when he commented on the

00:10:50.260 prime minister's conduct. Stop dividing Canadians, and I'm quoting, stop dividing Canadians to stop

00:10:57.160 pitting one part of the population against another. I can't help but notice with regret

00:11:03.660 that both the tone and the policies of my government changed drastically on the eve of

00:11:10.840 and during the last election, from a positive and unifying tone to a decision was made to wedge,

00:11:19.380 to divide, and to stigmatize. I fear that this politicization of the pandemic risks

00:11:25.920 undermining public trust in our public health institutions. This is not a risk that we should

00:11:33.800 take lightly. It's time to stop the division and the distraction. End quote. The prime minister's

00:11:41.940 own deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, said that COVID was a political opportunity.

00:11:46.840 And his former finance minister, Bill Borneau, says that the prime minister used vaccines as a

00:11:54.060 wedge issue to divide people. And thus, a lot of people were so helpless and so desperate,

00:12:01.900 it, they ended up participating in a protest in Ottawa. This was an emergency that Justin Trudeau

00:12:10.800 created by attacking his own population, by driving up their cost of living, by making it

00:12:17.440 impossible for people to pay their bills and live their lives in peace. He caused the emergency

00:12:23.340 that unfolded. And then when he caused it, he piled on, he poured more gasoline on the fire

00:12:29.380 with nasty insults, jabbing his finger in the faces of his own citizens, something that even

00:12:36.400 today's report acknowledged contributed to the length and the intensity of the protest.

00:12:44.060 Everything feels broken in Canada, but we can fix it. As prime minister, I'll bring people together.

00:12:50.420 I'll listen to their concerns and understand the suffering that they experience. In fact,

00:12:55.540 I'll reverse the policies that caused that suffering in the first place by eliminating

00:12:58.900 the carbon tax so that we can bring down heat, gas, and grocery bills by clearing away the

00:13:05.660 bureaucratic gatekeepers to build more homes so our young people have a place to live. I'll get

00:13:11.460 off the backs and out of the way of our First Nations people so that they can supply themselves 1.00

00:13:15.700 with a good quality of life. In other words, instead of divide and conquer, we'll unite for

00:13:23.340 hope in this country it's common sense now let's bring it home thank you

00:13:31.900 i'll open the floor for questions we have time for five questions thanks carrie tate from the 0.86

00:13:37.340 globe and mail i'm wondering if uh the story in today's globe and mail about china and the

00:13:42.780 last election whether that demonstrates the need for a foreign agent registry to track monitor

00:13:49.260 influence um uh on behalf of other countries first of all with regards to the globe story

00:13:58.380 it's clear that justin trudeau has been covering up the interference of the authoritarian regime in

00:14:07.100 beijing he claims he never knew anything about it but is it really believable

00:14:13.660 it's really believable that our foreign intel that are is it really believable

00:14:17.900 that CSIS would write an entire report and share it with foreign governments without actually

00:14:25.960 telling our own prime minister? Is it really believable that the many reports that have been

00:14:30.100 written over the last four years about this that have now come to light in newspapers because

00:14:34.800 they've been leaked by courageous whistleblowers inside our intelligence apparatus never were

00:14:41.580 brought before the prime minister of Canada? Of course that is not believable. Justin Trudeau

00:14:46.580 knew about this interference, and he covered it up because he benefited from it. He is perfectly

00:14:53.900 happy to let a foreign authoritarian government interfere in our elections as long as they're 0.98

00:14:59.720 helping him. According to the Globe and Mail story today, this foreign authoritarian government

00:15:06.760 wanted to see Justin Trudeau as prime minister because they knew that he would work for their

00:15:11.840 interests rather than Canada's interest. And that's why he's covered up this information for

00:15:17.380 so long. As to your specific question, I believe we need a public registry of all those who do

00:15:28.940 paid work on behalf of foreign authoritarian regimes to influence or manipulate our politics

00:15:41.140 or government. Thank you.

00:15:45.460 Hi there, Josh McLean, CBC News.

00:15:47.440 And if you don't mind responding in English.

00:15:50.160 Sorry, I didn't hear that.

00:15:51.300 You want me to write in English and French, please?

00:15:54.320 Justice Rouleau said

00:15:55.460 that he did not accept the organizers'

00:15:57.340 descriptions of the protest as

00:15:59.280 lawful, calm, peaceful, or something

00:16:01.180 resembling a celebration.

00:16:03.160 He wrote that the bigger picture reveals the situation

00:16:05.240 in Ottawa was unsafe and chaotic.

00:16:08.040 Justice Rouleau also found

00:16:09.240 that the federal government's use of the Emergency Act was justified.

00:16:12.860 Do you accept Justice Rulo's findings,

00:16:14.780 and do you regret endorsing the Freedom Convoy?

00:16:18.620 Well, first of all, your question was typical of CBC bias again.

00:16:22.900 You forgot to mention what the report said,

00:16:27.820 which is more of an effort should have been made

00:16:31.900 by government leaders at all levels during the protest

00:16:34.180 to acknowledge that the majority of protesters

00:16:37.160 were exercising their fundamental democratic rights what i said before during and after the

00:16:42.980 protest was that i condemn anyone who behaves badly breaks laws or blockades critical infrastructure

00:16:52.000 while standing on the side of the hard-working people who have suffered so much under eight

00:16:58.380 years of justin trudeau and we're desperately trying to have their voices heard against an

00:17:03.440 insulting and divisive prime minister. And the only reason that we had this emergency is because

00:17:09.380 Justin Trudeau wanted it to happen, because he wanted to distract and divide Canadians

00:17:14.760 from the pain and suffering that he has caused by driving up their cost of living, making it

00:17:20.800 impossible for our youth to own homes, by taxing our working class, and by imposing unnecessary 0.97

00:17:26.960 and unscientific rules that brought an end to the livelihoods of countless heroes we needed

00:17:34.680 for our economy. Thank you. Encore une question biaisée de CBC. I should say this in English as

00:17:47.840 well. I know that the president of CBC has launched a campaign against me, and so I can

00:17:52.560 expect that there are going to be a lot of reporters coming to carry out that campaign

00:17:56.060 on her behalf, I think the CBC should act as an unbiased source of news, not a political

00:18:02.840 campaign machine for the Prime Minister.

00:18:05.260 Donc, la question est biaisée.

00:18:07.940 Le journaliste a manqué à ce que le rapport a dit, que, et je cite, les responsables

00:18:14.560 gouvernementaux à tous les niveaux auraient dû faire davantage d'efforts pendant les

00:18:19.800 manifestations pour reconnaître que la majorité des manifestants exerçait leurs droits

00:18:25.160 democratique fondamentaux.

00:18:26.580 Évidemment, nous condamnons tous,

00:18:29.060 comme j'avais fait dans le temps,

00:18:31.560 dans l'époque,

00:18:33.000 tous ceux qui ont brisé des lois

00:18:34.740 ou qui se sont mal comportés

00:18:36.880 ou qui ont bloqué

00:18:38.300 de l'infrastructure essentielle.

00:18:41.000 Mais en même temps, il y a beaucoup de monde

00:18:42.620 qui souffre à ce pays.

00:18:44.600 Et au lieu de les diviser,

00:18:46.740 de les stigmatiser,

00:18:48.800 comme a dit

00:18:49.740 le député libéral

00:18:51.740 Joe Lightbaum,

00:18:53.260 il faut unifier les gens.

00:18:55.160 and recognize the pain that he suffers.

00:18:57.740 And that's how a Prime Minister should act,

00:19:00.460 and that's what I'm going to do when I become Prime Minister.

00:19:03.440 Thank you.

00:19:05.500 Brody Thomas, Postmedia.

00:19:07.620 The federal government today announced its interim sustainable jobs plan,

00:19:12.560 previously known as the Just Transition.

00:19:14.340 I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on the plan as presented

00:19:16.800 and how a conservative government might approach this differently.

00:19:21.100 well i can tell you vladimir putin is smiling today because as justin trudeau drives

00:19:29.160 energy jobs out of canada he drives money into the hands of foreign polluting dictatorships

00:19:36.280 we know because trudeau has killed most of the lng projects that were on his desk when he took

00:19:43.520 office, the Europeans have to rely on Putin to heat their homes and feed their industry with gas,

00:19:51.600 gas that we could be supplying cleaner, more ethically, and to the benefit of our First 0.84

00:19:57.400 Nations people right here in Canada. Justin Trudeau's approach is hurting our environment

00:20:03.300 by driving jobs, business, and opportunity out and global pollution up. The answer is

00:20:12.020 to develop our resources here in Canada

00:20:15.240 while incentivizing our companies to do so

00:20:18.140 with the lowest possible emissions.

00:20:20.920 That will bring greenhouse gases down

00:20:24.320 and opportunities and jobs up.

00:20:27.520 In other words, this is common sense.

00:20:30.180 It's time to bring home our jobs,

00:20:32.740 bring home our businesses,

00:20:34.340 and bring home our resource development.

00:20:37.260 Let's bring it home.

00:20:42.020 Hello, Mr. Polyev, Jonathan Bradley, Western Standard. My question for you is, given the release of the Public Order Emergency Commission's report and rising Western alienation, it's clear there is divisions among Canadians. What role has Prime Minister Sancho played in this division, and how can it be resolved?

00:21:04.020 he hasn't played a role he is the division his purpose is to divide and conquer he believes

00:21:13.220 that if he can turn canadians against each other then they'll forget how miserable life has become

00:21:18.700 after eight years of his tax hikes inflation and out of control cost of living with costs

00:21:26.900 crime and corruption raging after eight years of justin true it's wonder he wants the focus off

00:21:33.480 him and he wants canadians fighting with each other so you can expect him to continue to divide

00:21:38.880 people by race region vaccine status and any other fault line that he can invent but instead of divide

00:21:47.480 and distract what we need to do is unite for hope to bring people together and tell them that

00:21:54.160 tomorrow can be better than today let's just remove all these painful taxes that have driven

00:22:00.860 people into poverty. Let's end the inflationary deficits that send the cost of living up faster

00:22:06.540 than at any time in 40 years. Let's clear the bureaucratic blockades to build millions of new 0.74

00:22:11.900 homes so our young people can actually have a roof over their head and not just live in their

00:22:16.720 parents' basements. And let's bring back freedom of speech and freedom of expression so everybody

00:22:23.180 can have a voice again in this big, beautiful, wonderful country of ours. Let's unite our people

00:22:30.240 for hope and let's bring it home. Thank you. So it looks like that's all the questions we

00:22:37.840 have. With that, we'll conclude our press conference. Thank you very much. Thank you.

00:23:00.240 The Canadian Shooting Sports Association, without the CSSA, our gun rights would have been taken long, long ago.

00:23:16.420 These guys are on the front lines, helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms regulations and legislation in Canada.

00:23:24.420 And more importantly, educating the public about how we keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people.

00:23:29.420 To become a member, it's absolutely worth every penny.

Western Standard - February 17, 2023

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre - Press Conference

Episode Stats

Length

Words per Minute

Word Count

Sentence Count

Misogynist Sentences

Hate Speech Sentences

Summary

Transcript