Western Standard - LIVE： Pierre Poilievre Campain Rally in Calgary

00:00:00.000 We, O Canada, we stand on fire for thee.

00:00:30.000 We'll see you next time.

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00:33:24.000 that was okay that was okay how is everybody doing so far tonight

00:33:47.440 that was much better a couple of little housekeeping things for everybody before

00:33:50.880 we get started the heat has been turned off

00:33:57.360 it was really cold when we got here a few hours ago but uh thanks to the body heat it's turned

00:34:01.280 up a little bit so turn the heat off now i'm sure all of you have seen the traffic coming in

00:34:07.520 so we are going to push things down a little bit because our star of the evening is getting in uh

00:34:13.760 he is rolling into a spruce mills as we speak but we want to give him a couple minutes to get

00:34:18.080 uh in and settled and let everybody get in as best as we can so we are going to start

00:34:22.480 very soon uh but i just want to let everybody know that we have uh turned the heat off the

00:34:27.120 concessions are going to be closed once we start so if you want a water or something like that

00:34:31.520 please grab that as soon as possible and then we'll be starting here in a five or ten minutes

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01:03:18.080 I want to welcome you to the beautiful riding of Foothills Alberta, thank you very much for

01:03:33.920 coming, how are you doing tonight? My name is Sam Barlow, I'm a member of parliament

01:03:42.240 for Foothills, this is my riding and I'm very proud to have you here with us tonight and

01:03:46.800 And I will be your emcee for this evening.

01:03:50.560 Before we get started, I want to introduce

01:03:52.560 some very special guests who we have with us tonight,

01:03:55.680 who also made the trip out to Foothills

01:03:58.200 Riding in the Calgary area.

01:04:00.600 And I'm going to take a little time

01:04:02.000 to introduce some of my friends.

01:04:03.520 I've got Glenn Mott's here from Medicine Hat,

01:04:05.520 Clarkston Manor.

01:04:10.040 Glenn Rubber, the member of Parliament

01:04:11.840 for the Calgary Confederation.

01:04:14.080 And you couldn't get us on stage.

01:04:15.440 Pat Kelly, the MP for Calgary, Rafi Ritz.

01:04:20.200 Blake Richards, the MP from Banff, Airdrie.

01:04:25.420 Thanks very much for coming, guys.

01:04:27.200 But we also have a few other special guests for you to be with us today.

01:04:31.720 Now, first, I would like to introduce our hostess, Ms. Marge Southern.

01:04:36.160 Thank you very much for coming.

01:04:40.080 This is such a beautiful venue.

01:04:42.100 We're so happy to be here with you today.

01:04:43.780 Thank you so much for having us.

01:04:45.180 really means a lot to ourselves and Pierre and his team we also have a couple of other very special

01:04:50.460 guests Patrick Polioff, Pierre's brother is here with us tonight

01:04:59.100 and Marlene Polioff, Pierre's mom is here with us tonight

01:05:02.700 mom maybe you should be running you got a pretty nice reaction there

01:05:14.840 now folks i know you're really excited to have our keynote speaker up here tonight and i am too

01:05:20.760 i am very excited and very enthusiastic to have fear of running for the leadership of our party

01:05:26.000 but most importantly the next prime minister of canada

01:05:29.300 now we are breaking a record with the turnout that we've had here tonight

01:05:41.460 incredible we had 2 000 people in korena earlier or late last week

01:05:46.100 i thought that's going to be kind of tough to beat you guys blew the doors off

01:05:51.720 Thank you so much.

01:05:58.720 We all want Pierre to be the next Prime Minister of our country, but there's one thing that kind of stands in the way of that.

01:06:04.720 To ensure that that happens, we need to make sure that all of you have a membership of the Conservative Party in Canada

01:06:10.720 and vote for Pierre when the mail ballots come out this summer.

01:06:14.720 Who here has a membership in the CPC? Put your hand up.

01:06:21.720 This is going to be embarrassing.

01:06:27.720 Who does not?

01:06:37.720 This is kind of like being an employees game with some Oilers fans there.

01:06:41.720 But it's not too late.

01:06:43.720 Those of you who are brave enough to put up your hand, and I appreciate that you did that,

01:06:47.720 grab your phone right now go to pierre4pm.ca and buy your membership right now hold up your phone

01:06:56.000 after you do that and show us the receipt show us your membership and hold it up there for when

01:07:00.600 Pierre gets on stage so he can see the energy and the enthusiasm and those who have come here

01:07:06.900 tonight to support Pierre Paulyab and to support Pierre's campaign to be the next Prime Minister.

01:07:17.620 Now I have a very special friend here that's going to introduce Pierre. Now we've had some

01:07:22.900 amazing MPs join our team in the last couple of elections. Now I know we all wanted to win,

01:07:27.700 we didn't win, but there are some positives. Some positives of the people that we have added.

01:07:31.940 We have won the popular vote in the last two elections and because of that we've added some

01:07:35.780 great mps and the next fellow that i'm going to invite up here is a rock star he's going to be

01:07:41.380 a huge part of the next conservative government jaz rachel on the calgary mp for calgary forest

01:07:48.660 law our shadow minister for immigration instead of suits it

01:07:57.620 wow calgary give yourselves a round of applause for proving why calgary is the best city in the world

01:08:05.780 We are so honored to join you all today in this incredible movement sweeping Canada from

01:08:17.340 coast to coast to coast of Canadians uniting behind the man that needs no introduction,

01:08:23.660 Pierre Paulyard.

01:08:31.660 Thank you, John.

01:08:53.660 You

01:09:23.660 This piece of heaven we found, rocky mountains and black fertile ground, everything we need

01:09:39.280 is under that big blue sky.

01:09:42.620 I'm proud to be Alberta found, Alberta bred, and Alberta found.

01:09:48.640 Thank you very much, Alberta.

01:09:51.020 this is not only my hometown this is my home neighborhood anybody here from shaughnessy

01:10:03.820 that's where i grew up right over on shaughnessy drive not far away first job

01:10:10.060 delivering the calvary sun you can applaud the calvary side it's not the cbc

01:10:15.340 went to janet johnstone then over anybody from janet johnstone

01:10:24.020 yeah listen uh you know and furthermore i have a little bit of experience here at this site

01:10:35.820 i don't know if i should tell this to the southern family but when we were kids growing

01:10:40.700 up in shaughnessy we used to ride our bikes on the gravel roads over here and sneak onto the

01:10:45.820 property and tear around on the horse jumping site i even think uh nancy caught me a few times

01:10:52.300 she pulled up in her pickup truck and told us that we had to skedaddle but those were good

01:10:57.100 adventurous days back then shaughnessy was the end of the universe you remember that couldn't go any

01:11:03.020 further it was shaughnessy and then you were in ocotox there was nothing in between and i had my

01:11:09.020 very first political job working in for a member of parliament in forest lawn so I used to take the

01:11:15.020 52 from Shaughnessy to Anderson station which was then the southernmost station go all the way

01:11:22.640 downtown switch trains then go all the way to force one get on another bus an hour and 45 minutes

01:11:27.780 each way my dad bought me a used pair of dress shoes and a used suit and he tied a funny tie

01:11:33.140 on me and i worked every day in the summer i think of 1996 and made 600 bucks a month best job i ever

01:11:40.820 had and of course my mother's here my mother marlene pauligan

01:11:47.140 Thank you.

01:12:17.540 Well, we got our start sort of together in a lot of ways, and we were both born of an unwed teenage mother who put us up for adoption because her mother had passed away, and we were blessed to be adopted by two school teachers, my father Don, my mother Marlene, who are here today, they gave us our start in life, and, you know, it really, that experience, that experience.

01:12:44.540 when someone was asking me the other day

01:12:47.100 what's the nicest thing anyone ever did

01:12:49.260 for you? The answer, of course, was when my parents

01:12:51.080 adopted me. You can't do anything

01:12:53.080 better than that, right?

01:13:00.960 And what it taught me is that the greatest

01:13:03.160 compassion comes not from the heavy

01:13:05.080 hand of the state, but from the loving

01:13:07.020 hands of families and volunteers

01:13:09.540 and community, right?

01:13:14.540 That's what Alberta is really all about, small government and big citizens, free people, doing good for one another, living in tolerance and peace and love with one another.

01:13:25.720 That is the dream that brought so many waves of immigrants to this land. Whether you've been here for 300 years as a family or 300 days as a new refugee, we all came here for exactly the same reason, isn't it?

01:13:41.080 Not for free stuff, but for freedom, right?

01:13:44.500 Freedom.

01:13:51.660 Especially in the prairies.

01:13:54.060 Our ancestors came here to carve a little piece of paradise

01:13:59.320 out of that big, cold patch of land called Western Canada.

01:14:05.120 Way back then, when the immigration minister Clifford Sifton

01:14:08.340 advertise this part of the country all across Europe to attract new immigrants

01:14:13.020 he actually called it God's country because it was such a beautiful place

01:14:16.920 with endless possibility and they told you we won't give you anything except a

01:14:21.000 piece of land you can break it in you can work hard you can start a life and

01:14:24.600 you can pass something better on your kids than you inherited from your

01:14:27.700 parents and back back then someone asked the great Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier

01:14:34.500 what is Canada's nationality and of course that was a complicated question

01:14:40.260 to ask a Canadian Prime Minister already because if you were in Europe it would

01:14:45.000 be easy you'd answer based on ethnicity Scotland it's Scottish France French

01:14:49.080 etc but here we already were mixed up we had the First Peoples we had the Scots

01:14:54.360 the Irish the French countless others were already here in this country so

01:14:58.440 you could not define our nationality on ethnicity so instead he said canada is free and freedom is

01:15:06.360 its nationality and so it is today freedom is our nationality freedom the freedom to think speak

01:15:21.720 work build a family and live a life the freedom to give more to others

01:15:27.220 voluntarily through charity my mother has a lot of charity actually she helps

01:15:31.440 with seniors homes who are people who are isolated when I came to town

01:15:35.720 recently she said she wanted me to come visit the seniors that I was going to be

01:15:39.540 a big star if I did so I went over and walked in the front door and I said to a

01:15:45.000 lady do you know who I am she said no but if you ask the nurse she'll tell you

01:15:48.980 who you are good isn't it jazz razz stays uh grounded by doing a lot of door knocking he's

01:16:04.000 a relentless door knocker the problem is his team cannot get him to stop so the night comes

01:16:09.320 and the people are starting to go to bed and jazz keeps knocking on doors his team says jazz

01:16:15.480 eventually you're going to start waking people up and lose votes he says no i've got to keep going

01:16:19.960 nine o'clock 9 30. finally they get to this big dark house lights are off and his team says jazz

01:16:27.800 don't do it it's over go to bed he says one more door if i lose this election by one vote

01:16:34.280 i'll never be able to live with myself so he goes up to the door knocks baby's crying

01:16:40.600 lady opens the door says you sir are in big trouble you just woke up my triplet one-year-olds

01:16:48.540 not only that my husband is a 300 pound boxer and he's going to come down and have a word with you

01:16:54.480 jazz says that won't be necessary i'm just going to move along just tell him that his

01:16:58.860 local liberal candidate dropped by to say hello

01:17:00.800 He's quick, eh? Very quick. You know the great thing about door knocking? It's actually

01:17:17.640 quite a revolutionary idea. Throughout the ages, the citizens had to go before the government

01:17:23.820 and beg for goodwill. But the great thing about door knocking is it flips that org

01:17:28.280 chart upside down it forces us to be the servants the people are the masters it's kind of a

01:17:32.840 revolutionary concept isn't it you know the citizen is the master the politician is the

01:17:39.880 servant we have to show up for a job interview right in order to get hired

01:17:48.120 it's a good way to remind people who's really boss in a democracy they call up the house of

01:17:53.080 commons for a reason that's why it's green in there because the reverse commoners met in the

01:17:58.520 fields of england right the commoners rule the crown everyone is under the force of the law

01:18:06.120 liberty under the law is an 800 year old tradition that goes back to the magna carta of 1215 but you

01:18:13.960 know what it is constantly under threat it needs to be renewed and upheld never from above but from

01:18:20.760 From below, a bottom-up effort by the democratic people to take back control of their country,

01:18:26.940 to take back control of their lives, and to restore freedom.

01:18:30.060 That's why we're here.

01:18:40.780 But lately, people haven't felt so free in this country, have they?

01:18:45.700 whether it's the 14-year-old girl suffering depression after separation from her sporting

01:18:53.740 and social activities for two long years, whether it is the waitress who mortgaged her house to

01:19:01.300 start a business only to have it locked down again and again until she couldn't open it up

01:19:05.800 anymore. Whether it is the hard-working trucker who delivered the goods and services that we needed. 0.93

01:19:13.360 We delivered goods and services across the border every single day without a vaccine for two years

01:19:30.540 And suddenly, Justin Trudeau suggested that he was going to spread a virus, even though that same trucker is all alone, all by himself, in the cab of his truck all day long.

01:19:41.560 He feels like he's lost control of his life.

01:19:43.840 And when he stood up and spoke out and raised his voice in peaceful and democratic protest, he was called a criminal by people like Justin Trudeau and Jean Chiré.

01:19:53.940 ladies and gentlemen people feel like they're losing control of their lives because big bossy

01:20:04.140 government has taken advantage of the pandemic used it as an excuse to attack people's freedom

01:20:10.500 and expand their power the power of the state and that is why we as a conservative team are going

01:20:16.260 to continue to fight tooth and nail to put a permanent end to the vaccine mandates the vaccine

01:20:23.040 but it's not just our medical freedom that has been under attack think about our economic freedom

01:20:40.720 think of the single mother who's skipping meals so that her kids don't have to because food

01:20:47.180 inflation now means that four in five families have cut the quantity or quality of their diet

01:20:53.580 just so that they can afford to pay for it or the working guy who can't afford to drive to work with

01:20:59.260 buck 60 a liter gas or the 32 year old forced to live in his mom's basement because he can't afford

01:21:07.020 the price of a house after home values have doubled in just seven years you know i was in

01:21:15.020 in Vancouver just the other day, and I asked, you are a 32-year-old living in your mom's

01:21:20.560 basement. How do you even bring home a date? It's a logistical question. A lady shouted

01:21:27.560 out from the audience, very carefully. But seriously, think of what it does to the personal 0.83

01:21:35.140 independence of a young couple. You can't build up credit history, collateral, or home

01:21:42.240 equity for a future retirement if you're stuck living at home there's a couple living in a

01:21:47.440 trailer park five minutes from my ottawa home and they make 100 grand working at a quarry

01:21:54.720 now they have calculated that not only can they not leave the trailer park

01:21:59.280 today but at the current trajectory they will never be able to afford a home

01:22:06.560 the aggregate that they pull out of that quarry is used to make the foundations of houses

01:22:12.240 when the people who build our homes can no longer afford to live in them our economic system is

01:22:17.280 fundamentally unjust

01:22:26.720 but why is it happening what has caused this out of control inflation that has attacked the

01:22:32.240 paychecks of our working class just inflation right just inflation and what's behind that well

01:22:42.240 Trudeau government has created $400 billion of brand new cash out of thin air in the last two years.

01:22:47.680 One in every $5 in the economy today was created since 2020.

01:22:54.100 More dollars chasing fewer goods always equals higher prices.

01:22:57.520 If you have an economy with 10 loaves of bread and $10, it's a buck a loaf.

01:23:02.360 You double the number of dollars to $20, all of a sudden it's $2 for a loaf of bread, right?

01:23:07.640 Very simple.

01:23:08.720 More dollars chasing fewer goods equals higher prices.

01:23:11.800 But when government creates cash, it doesn't just dump it out of airplanes onto the population equally.

01:23:16.860 It pumps it into the financial and banking system by buying government bonds and other financial assets.

01:23:22.700 So the first people to touch all that cash are those with the greatest access to the financial system.

01:23:28.220 No wonder the gap between rich and poor is growing out of control.

01:23:32.760 Their assets inflate in value.

01:23:34.760 If you're a millionaire mansion owner, you just got a lot richer all of a sudden as the value of your assets went up.

01:23:41.900 All you had to do was sit back on your big, fat assets and get richer, right?

01:23:48.080 Meanwhile, meanwhile, purchasing power of the working people is diminished.

01:23:55.520 You think about it this way.

01:23:56.760 Your dollar is worth 50 cents today based on its purchasing power of real estate over the last seven years.

01:24:05.420 You took a dollar in 2015 and converted it today into this purchasing power for a home.

01:24:11.840 It's worth 50 cents.

01:24:13.780 That is literally what inflation does.

01:24:16.680 It cuts the value of your loony.

01:24:18.900 You know, it reminds me of King Henry VIII.

01:24:21.840 he not only is known for cutting off the heads of his citizens but clipping off the edges of the

01:24:27.600 british pound it was a pound of silver but he kept running out of silver because he couldn't control

01:24:32.400 his spending so he'd clip off the edges and melt down those edges to make more pounds and that's

01:24:37.760 what inflation does today it clips off the edge of your coin 5.7 inflation last month means 5.7

01:24:44.160 percentage of looney was clipped off and along with the purchasing power and so the working class

01:24:50.000 wages buy less and the super rich get richer they're taking from the have-nots to give to the 0.73

01:24:56.240 have yachts in this country that's what's happening when they create all of this path right and so

01:25:03.360 what are we going to do about it well we're going to counter just inflation with common sense sense

01:25:09.520 spelled c-e-n-t-s right common sense one we're going to ban the bank of canada from printing

01:25:16.640 cash to pay for politicians spending and replace it with a very simple mandate the money supply

01:25:29.200 should be determined by what is necessary to keep prices stable and low no more inflation

01:25:36.960 no more giving money to the rich and to the politicians protect the purchasing power of

01:25:41.200 our money through a strong, sound money policy. Two, we're going to bring down the cost of

01:25:50.000 everything by axing the consumer carbon tax. And three, we're going to get rid of the wasteful

01:26:05.860 spending that has made all this money printing necessary in the first place. Right, Trudeau,

01:26:09.920 double the size of the national debt he's increased spending exponentially 25

01:26:14.420 spending is up 25% over what it was in just 2019 so there's some very low

01:26:21.540 hanging fruit my friends his hundred billion dollar slush fund gone

01:26:26.540 multi-billion dollar infrastructure bank which exists only to provide loan

01:26:32.260 guarantees and profit protections to corporation and to give bonuses to

01:26:36.920 undeserving executives gone i want to get your thoughts on this one the billion dollars we're

01:26:49.960 wasting on the CBC gone.

01:27:09.720 There you go. That was the funnest billion dollars we ever saved, isn't it?

01:27:26.720 That's right. Thank you very much. And we're going to give people more freedom over their own money, right?

01:27:33.720 well the government doesn't have to have a monopoly on the cash we use people should have

01:27:41.340 the freedom to choose other forms of money you know some years ago after the bankers and

01:27:47.640 politicians destroyed the financial system in the United States of America a guy named Satoshi

01:27:53.160 Nakamoto designed a system called Bitcoin right we've got a few Bitcoin fans in the audience today

01:27:59.820 Very simple idea. The money would not be controlled by any bank or any government. It's simply controlled by all the people who choose to be on the network. And all of the updates to the ledger of that money are made through consensus of all of those people who are around the world, don't know each other, and therefore can't conspire to manipulate it.

01:28:17.320 It takes the control of cash out of the hands of the government or any central authority and lets the people decide for themselves. Now, obviously, these kinds of new concepts are going to be risky and no one should put their life savings into any such thing. But what we should do is continue to have a free market where people can choose which money they use. I actually used it to buy a shawarma when I was in London, Ontario the other day. It was delicious.

01:28:42.920 Now are there any retailers in the audience today? Anybody in the retail business over here? Put up your hand. How much do you pay on every transaction to the credit card company when someone buys? What percent? I heard three, I heard two. When I bought this sandwich with Bitcoin, the network charge was 0.06 cents on an $11 sandwich.

01:29:10.180 So that's what happens when you take out the middleman, right?

01:29:13.020 It's time that we give people the freedom to take back control of their money

01:29:16.980 away from politicians and bankers.

01:29:26.420 You know, instead of creating more cash,

01:29:28.420 why don't we create more of what cash buys, right?

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01:29:32.960 and produce more responsible Canadian energy.

01:29:39.720 See, back to that simple analogy, if you have an economy with ten loaves of bread and ten dollars, and instead of doubling the number of dollars, you double the amount, the number of loaves of bread, right? You have twenty loaves of bread now and ten dollars, well now each loaf of bread costs fifty cents.

01:29:57.960 I said, what do you know? Our money actually goes further when we make stuff and produce things instead of just creating cash out of thin air.

01:30:06.400 So how are we going to do that? Well, it starts with removing the gatekeepers, right?

01:30:12.000 You know about the gatekeepers. They're the ones that stand in the way and block other people.

01:30:16.360 They stand at their gate and say, no, you can't come any further.

01:30:19.600 There's only a privileged few that are allowed on this side of the fence.

01:30:23.440 The rest of you can just suffer over there.

01:30:26.500 We see it again and again, the gatekeepers who block our immigrants from working in the very professions and trades for which they were trained, denying them the ability to get a permit to work.

01:30:41.000 How many of you here don't have a family doctor? Just put up your hands. Anybody? Right.

01:30:45.620 And we have thousands of hardworking and brilliant immigrants that are trained doctors but can't get licenses because local gatekeepers prevent them from getting it, right?

01:30:54.760 How many of you have a hard time getting a plumber or someone to come and fix your roof? 0.98

01:30:59.620 Meanwhile, we have many immigrants that can't get licenses to practice in the trades, even though they are fully qualified for the job. 0.96

01:31:06.200 A poly of government will use immigration support funds that we already transfer to the provinces as leverage to require provinces mandate that these employment bodies give faster licenses

01:31:19.320 and give a full answer to any immigrant applying to work in their field

01:31:23.320 within 60 days of applying.

01:31:30.280 We will insist upon a merit-based system

01:31:33.140 so that people are approved based on what they can do,

01:31:35.520 not where they studied,

01:31:36.580 so that we can have more doctors, more engineers,

01:31:39.400 more tradespeople, more Canadians

01:31:41.280 making big inflation-proof paychecks for all of us.

01:31:45.680 We're going to remove the gatekeepers.

01:31:48.480 We're going to move the gatekeepers that prevent people from having homes.

01:31:51.960 I was in Vancouver, as I was saying the other day, you in Vancouver today,

01:31:55.460 the cost of government regulation in every single house is $644,000.

01:32:05.400 That's the delays, the fees, the lawyer fees, the accountants,

01:32:11.640 and the lobbyists you have to hire in order to get approved with a building permit.

01:32:16.160 So I wired up this house. It's a little old house built probably about 50 years ago.

01:32:21.940 I wanted to find the most outrageous price, 1,000 square feet in Vancouver.

01:32:27.380 And it cost $4.8 million to buy the house.

01:32:32.260 Now, in fairness, the realtor told us you can tear it down.

01:32:36.160 You can build two triplexes on the same wall.

01:32:41.300 Okay, that's great. Let's do a little bit of math.

01:32:44.240 $4.8 million divided by six units, $800,000 for each one of those units.

01:32:56.740 That's for the privilege of living in a triplex, and that's just the land.

01:33:01.240 You have to get it approved, you have to, let's say with the approvals and with the labor and the material,

01:33:07.240 you're looking at $1.2 million to live in a triplex.

01:33:10.240 Now think about this for a second. That little shack was originally built half-century ago, and it was probably purchased by a welder, a truck driver, or a bus driver, and probably they paid for it with a single income.

01:33:27.240 That's the way it was back then.

01:33:30.240 Isn't it strange that 50 years ago, a family could afford that house and that land with a single working-class income.

01:33:40.240 And today, even when you slice and dice that land into six different pieces, the six families cannot afford to live on it. 0.54

01:33:51.240 I thought the deal in Canada was we were supposed to do a little bit better than our parents.

01:33:56.240 that each generation is supposed to be better off than the one that came before us.

01:34:00.240 But the gatekeepers are preventing that from happening.

01:34:02.240 They're hoarding opportunity by preventing new construction.

01:34:05.240 So a Pollywood government is going to take this on hand. 0.99

01:34:08.240 We know what big city politicians care about, spending money. 0.99

01:34:11.240 Now they won't get any more infrastructure money unless they speed up permits.

01:34:16.240 The number of dollars in infrastructure increases will be tied

01:34:19.240 to the number of completed housing units that come onto the market.

01:34:26.240 We're going to get the gatekeepers on the way of our farmers by cutting back on the

01:34:47.240 red tape and regulation of the CFIA that punishes our farmers and molds in the back

01:34:52.240 We're going to raise up food costs. We're going to reduce their influx taxes so it's more affordable to produce

01:34:57.240 affordable and nutritious food here in our country.

01:35:01.240 And we're going to remove the gatekeepers that have made us reliant on foreign oil in this country.

01:35:07.240 You know all these gatekeepers, including our Prime Minister, had a sudden epitome since the war started in Ukraine, right?

01:35:25.240 If the money, if the oil is not coming from Canada to pay Canadian paychecks, guess what?

01:35:32.240 But, surprise, it's going to dictators who are going to use that money to invade their neighbors.

01:35:38.240 This has led to environmental protection.

01:35:41.240 It has simply redirected oil production from ethical countries like Canada

01:35:46.240 to drive those dollars into the hands of people like Maduro in Venezuela and Putin in Russia.

01:35:53.240 You know, we have the Energy East pipeline today.

01:35:56.240 We can take a million barrels of Western oil and ship them across the land.

01:36:02.240 It's not just that we can't export our oil, we're actually buying oil from those same

01:36:14.740 dictators.

01:36:15.740 You know that we import 130,000 barrels from overseas oil to Canada every single day.

01:36:25.240 Places like Saudi Arabia and Nigeria have no environmental standards, and then use the money to fund terrorism and other dictatorships, and they attack their own people in Africa. 0.62

01:36:38.240 So here's the plan, folks. This is what we're going to do about it. 0.57

01:36:41.240 One, the Pierre Paliat government will repeal the anti-energy law Bill C-69.

01:36:55.240 And they were repealed and off-shore chipping through North of West British Columbia by repealing C40A.

01:37:08.240 We removed the gatekeepers and opened the Arctic Gateway by opening up direct lines to ship our oil from northern Alberta over to the northern coast.

01:37:20.240 That's the port up there. We're going to ship oil around the Arctic in order to get over to the eastern markets in Canada.

01:37:31.240 The port of Churchill is now 28 indigenous communities that have lined themselves up in a consortium to build the rail line and the port itself.

01:37:43.240 They're ready to take our product and we're going to ship it out another route.

01:37:46.240 And we're going to clear the way for pipelines. I am going to support pipelines south, north, east, west.

01:38:05.240 And there's a real simple solution for that oil we're putting in to the St. John Refinery in New Brunswick.

01:38:11.240 Why don't we just get it from Newfoundland? It's right next door.

01:38:15.240 The Newerlanders have a proposal to increase their daily production by 400,000 barrels a day.

01:38:23.240 So we call the Appalachian Grant permits for that to happen, so that those 400,000 barrels can replace the 130,000 barrels we get from overseas.

01:38:33.240 take five years, we will ban overseas oil in Canada all the time.

01:38:45.240 If you want to vote for climate change, here's an idea.

01:38:47.240 Why don't we export more clean Canadian energy to replace

01:38:51.240 around... 0.96

01:38:53.240 Colonia 1003.

01:38:57.240 What are we going to check for over here?

01:38:59.240 I think he's screaming, but we need some more microphones.

01:39:06.240 I think he's right about that.

01:39:07.240 I agree with you, my friend, and I hear you.

01:39:09.240 We need more natural gas.

01:39:11.240 We need more natural gas.

01:39:12.240 We got 1,300 trillion cubic feet of the stock.

01:39:15.240 Frankly, we don't believe in our feet.

01:39:17.240 We have huge amenities.

01:39:19.240 You know, you know that the closest point to Asia

01:39:23.240 and all of North America is British Columbia.

01:39:26.240 The closest point to Europe and all of North America is Newfoundland.

01:39:31.240 In other words, we have shipping advantages over the Gulf Coast.

01:39:35.240 You know what other advantage we have?

01:39:37.240 Well, you have to liquefy gas in order to ship it.

01:39:40.240 Do you know how you liquefy a gas?

01:39:43.240 You have to put it down.

01:39:45.240 What if we have lots of in Canada?

01:39:47.240 Cold weather.

01:39:49.240 It's our most abundant natural resource.

01:39:53.240 Cold weather.

01:39:55.240 In fact, I was in Saskatchewan the other day and it was so cold that our Liberals would have hands in their own pockets.

01:40:10.240 I have to follow up that one there.

01:40:12.240 Do you like that one, Paul?

01:40:14.240 Absolutely.

01:40:15.240 Paul agrees.

01:40:17.240 So, I'm told by the engineers, you can save actually 25% of the energy cost of liquefying natural gas by doing it in a cold climate.

01:40:26.740 We have a 30 degree advantage.

01:40:28.740 And so in Newfoundland, for example, they're going to pipe natural gas from the Janadar-Fosfor oil field over to the shore,

01:40:34.740 put it on a cooling vessel that will reduce it to minus 161 degrees Celsius and ship it off to Europe

01:40:42.240 to break European dependence on Putin so that we can take dollars from dictators and turn it into paychecks for our people.

01:40:55.240 With the rule of the big countries, we can export more civilian-grade Saskatchewan uranium.

01:41:01.240 One of the cleanest ways to generate emissions-free electricity is nuclear power.

01:41:08.240 We have more of the raw resources than anyone else can do it!

01:41:16.240 Removing the gatekeepers will also empower our First Nations communities

01:41:21.240 who desperately want economic independence from the paternalism of the government in Ottawa.

01:41:29.240 We will give our First Nations the ability to develop their resources,

01:41:33.240 to develop homeownership models on reserve,

01:41:36.680 and to welcome commerce and development

01:41:39.040 so that they can have paychecks for their people

01:41:41.600 and in financial independence for their communities.

01:41:45.880 That's what we're looking for the gatekeepers to achieve.

01:41:49.000 We're all right, right?

01:41:53.760 We're also going to remove the gatekeepers

01:41:57.320 who try to control our speech in this country, aren't we?

01:42:03.240 The woke folk. The woke folk. Are there any woke folk in the audience here today?

01:42:14.240 That's the woke people. You know these woke people? They're woke, but they're not weak, right?

01:42:21.240 They love to divide everyone, right? They want to divide along racial, ethnic, gender, and now vaccination status.

01:42:31.240 Every day they're looking for a new way to divide us and carve us up as a people. 0.51

01:42:36.360 Separate us from our neighbors, our friends, and our co-workers.

01:42:39.320 Why do they do this? Why isn't it Justin Trudeau?

01:42:42.600 He has his own ugly past with racism. 0.68

01:42:46.360 He still likes to divide people along racial lines.

01:42:49.480 Why is it that they do this? 1.00

01:42:51.640 You got that right. It's divide and conquer.

01:42:54.040 That's exactly what they're doing.

01:42:55.960 They believe that if you and I cannot trust our fellow citizens

01:42:59.400 and that we're afraid of everyone who might be around the corner then we'll turn to the almighty

01:43:04.520 state to protect us right and these dividing canadians you're right young man who is this

01:43:10.760 young man what's your name come on over here

01:43:16.760 Kyle, Kyle, what do you do?

01:43:22.760 I'm going to study culinary arts.

01:43:26.760 Study culinary arts?

01:43:28.760 So what are you making this for dinner?

01:43:32.760 Are there hamburgers or fries?

01:43:36.760 Steaks, hamburgers, fries, he knows he's in Alberta, doesn't he?

01:43:42.760 I want to give you a round of applause.

01:43:45.900 Right on.

01:43:46.980 Thanks, buddy.

01:43:51.340 Alright, well, I'm going to be coming up to test out your culinary arts on my next visit there, young man.

01:43:57.220 But he's absolutely right.

01:43:58.560 This Prime Minister seeks to divide us so that he can have more power for himself.

01:44:03.440 Right?

01:44:03.720 But, you know, this is the difference between control and freedom.

01:44:09.700 Control is a zero-sum game. If one person gets more control, then someone else has to get less control, right?

01:44:20.700 There's only so much to go around. And that's why when government gets big and bossy and powerful, people start turning on each other.

01:44:28.700 Can you remember a time when we've ever been this divided? East versus West, vaccinated versus unvaccinated.

01:44:35.700 I can't remember a time when people were turning on each other in this way, but it is by, you're right, when his dad was Prime Minister, I remember, I was a kid here in Alberta, and it was pretty bad then too, wasn't it?

01:44:47.700 The same thing happened. Big, powerful, controlling government turned people against each other. Before Trudeau I, there was no separatist movement in Quebec, and all of a sudden it came alive.

01:44:58.700 the second separatism was dead in Quebec and not even spoken of in Alberta.

01:45:03.700 And now that he's been in power for seven years,

01:45:05.700 we have two regions where there are separatist movements alive and well.

01:45:09.700 Unfortunately, well, listen, I understand why you feel that.

01:45:13.700 I understand the frustration of being a Western Canadian

01:45:16.700 and feeling like your central government has attacked you.

01:45:19.700 I get it.

01:45:20.700 But I want to tell you something else.

01:45:22.700 You have many friends right across this country who are on your side.

01:45:25.700 I meet them every single day.

01:45:27.700 We believe in this country, and we believe in all of its need, and want to build pipelines across the nation.

01:45:33.700 The Kennedy East pipeline would have gone right through my riding, and two-thirds of my constituents were happy to support it right there in Ottawa.

01:45:40.700 I want you to know that.

01:45:43.700 If it doesn't happen, what's on?

01:45:46.700 And you would call it a government.

01:45:48.700 If you're born and bred in Alberta, you will know that the era of calling Alberta on Alberta and Western Canada to pay up and shut up will be over forever.

01:46:08.700 We will make equalization programs fair to Albertans.

01:46:11.700 We will get rid of the federal carbon tax mandate and let the province of Alberta decide its best environmental policy.

01:46:18.700 We will end with the constant attacks to the law-abiding firearms owners and farmers in this country.

01:46:31.700 We will get an alertness to the capital representation in the House of Commons, and I will only appoint the senators that Albertans have elected.

01:46:41.700 The West wants in under a polyethic government, the West will be in.

01:46:50.700 And back to where we're at, on this point of control versus freedom.

01:46:56.700 There's only a finite amount of control, so one has more, others have less.

01:47:00.700 Freedom is the opposite.

01:47:01.700 If your neighbor has more freedom, that doesn't mean you have less, it means you have more.

01:47:05.700 If you are a Muslim and you have more religious freedom,

01:47:10.700 then your neighbor who's a Christian will have more religious freedom as well.

01:47:14.900 If your local small business person has more economic freedom

01:47:18.900 because they get rid of the unnecessary red tape,

01:47:21.480 you as a consumer will have more freedom

01:47:23.620 because you'll get to benefit from the lower prices he can offer you.

01:47:27.480 And probably your kid will benefit from the job

01:47:29.980 that the small businessman can create.

01:47:32.260 In other words, freedom reinforces freedom.

01:47:35.960 One person's benefit is another person's benefit.

01:47:39.040 That's why freedom is actually a unifying principle.

01:47:43.040 You know, you walk into a coffee shop, you buy the coffee, you say thank you.

01:47:47.040 What does the person say back to you behind the aisle?

01:47:51.040 Not you're welcome. They say thank you back.

01:47:54.040 Why is that? Because they benefit more from the $2.50 you paid them than it cost them to give you the coffee.

01:48:00.040 You benefit more from the coffee than the two bucks and 50 cents you paid to get it.

01:48:04.040 Everybody wins if you have an apple and want an orange and I have an orange and want an apple.

01:48:08.040 When we train, we still have an hour and an hour in between us, and that, but, we're both better off because each has something we're hoarding and many back for.

01:48:16.040 That's the miracle of the voluntary exchange for work or wages, product or payment, investment or interest.

01:48:22.040 Every single person must be better off, or they would not do it, right?

01:48:27.040 Because they're free to make that decision.

01:48:30.040 By contract, everything the government does,

01:48:39.940 even the good things it does, it does by force.

01:48:42.040 It forces that money out of your pocket through taxation.

01:48:45.360 It's forced upon you.

01:48:46.880 That's why nobody writes thank you on their tax warrants.

01:48:53.040 So that's the difference.

01:48:55.020 You want to talk about compassion.

01:48:56.940 There's nothing more compassionate

01:48:58.200 the entrepreneur. Why? Because he has to obsess about the interests and the needs of his

01:49:05.200 customer. Without whom, he does not have a job. Without pleasing them, he cannot make

01:49:10.200 money. He cannot get ahead unless he makes them better off. If you want to sell what

01:49:14.200 John Smith buys, you have to see through John Smith's eyes. That is the miracle of the free

01:49:19.200 enterprise system. And it is why in free economies and free countries, people are more

01:49:23.200 and that is really what we are trying to do today.

01:49:27.200 I started my journey. I started my journey here with all of you today.

01:49:32.200 And all of my values that I bring forward to Parliament Hill are those values with which you and I were raised.

01:49:39.200 You are my neighbors. You are my people. This is where I come from. This is where my heart and my soul come from.

01:49:53.200 Mark Twain said the two most important days to get a person's life, the day they report and the day they find out why they report.

01:50:01.200 Why is the most important question you should ask every single day.

01:50:06.200 Why am I doing what I'm doing? Why am I running for Prime Minister?

01:50:09.200 I'm running for Prime Minister to make Canada the freest nation on earth so that you can take back control of your life.

01:50:14.200 life

01:50:24.200 anybody who's prepared to work hard to feel their dreams that a young man can

01:50:28.440 stand on the stage and pursue his dream of becoming a culinary artist and make those

01:50:34.360 delicious meetings on earth so that the young guy growing up on a first nations reserve can

01:50:39.640 He can dream of starting his own business and serving his own family so that the newcomer from abroad can work as a doctor because he's trained as a doctor and so that the adopted son of a teenage mother can dream of one day running for Prime Minister and serving his country and making his nation agree with the word.

01:51:02.140 That is why I am running, and the words of the great John D. Grant, I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to worship God in my own way, free to choose those who shall govern my country against this legacy of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and for all of mankind.

01:51:31.140 All right, everybody.

01:52:01.140 a couple little housekeeping notes.

01:52:03.140 Pierre is going to try and take as many photos,

01:52:06.140 and as much meat and green as he possibly can.

01:52:09.140 If you are interested, please start lining up in that corner.

01:52:12.140 You can see the partitions, the black ribbon that is there.

01:52:16.140 And you're going to come and scroll over here

01:52:18.140 and go work your way across the black curtains.

01:52:20.140 And we're going to be taking your photos

01:52:22.140 and meeting green at these black curtains.

01:52:24.140 So if you want to start heading in that direction,

01:52:26.140 that is wonderful, but don't forget,

01:52:29.140 If we want here to be an enterprise minister of Canada, we need you to buy your CPC membership before June 3rd.

01:52:38.140 Do not delay it. If you haven't done it, do so tonight.

01:52:41.140 Thank you very much everybody for coming and we will see you very soon.

01:52:59.140 .

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Western Standard - April 13, 2022

LIVE： Pierre Poilievre Campain Rally in Calgary

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