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Pierre Poilievre

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“I would say my biggest fear is that the Western world does not stay true to its foundational principles. I want the Western world to stay true to the basic principles that grew out of the Magna Carta, of freedom, of government that is servant, people that are masters, and that the free democracies not only succeed at home but work together abroad to preserve that civilization.”
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“The biggest fear I have for Canada is that Blocking our own potential and declining, and opportunity vanishes and slowly, our people lose the promise that the country gave me and so many generations. And so my fear is that we become the frog in boiling water and it just gets slowly warmer and warmer and warmer and the frog really never notices”
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“I don't have a lot of fears. I mean. Myself. I would say going back to family, it would be that something would happen to my kids. You hear terrible things in the news. I was just unfortunately I had to go to a funeral for mass shooting victims in Tumblr Ridge, British Columbia. And I just, you know, every parent worries about something happening to their kids. I think that would be my biggest fear.”
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“I'm actually optimistic about the future, and I think Canada's got a very bright future. I think the world should look to Canada. We have the most resources of anyone in the world. We have probably the most diverse and educated population. We have the most fresh water, the second biggest landmass. And I think the future belongs to Canada. We're going to be an incredible place. The MV of the world. And if we do the right things, I don't want to be egotistical about it, but I think it would help if I were prime minister as well.”
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“She makes everyone smile, and she's got, she's very popular at school. The kids are very nice to her, by the way. We get secondhand reports, and it's like they love her. They're sweet to her. She has a little boy that has a crush on her, so I'm keeping an eye on that. But she's so affectionate like we went to a fall fair one time and there were these little old ladies sitting there and Valentina just decided she liked this little old lady and went and sat on her lap like a complete stranger. But that's how she is. She decides she likes you and you're in.”
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“Her on her shoulders. So, like enjoy the special things that they bring because they are magical. They're wonderful. They're just. They call it autism because they're auto, they're in their own world. You can't force them to be in your world. You have to go into their world and reach them there and understand that, you know, for her tapping on something might give her a tremendous sensation that we can't appreciate. On the other side, minor irritants that you and I would brush off might drive her completely crazy. And so, if she's having a meltdown, it's not because she's a bad kid, it's because she's going through a horrific sensation that we can't quite understand. But you just have to embrace it all. And it's a lot of extra leg work that goes into a child that has these conditions, but it's worth it and it's rewarding in the end.”
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“We were not that shocked. So, you know, when the, I think she was a nurse or she was a specialist gave us the diagnosis and she was like paused like waiting for us to burst into tears. I mean, we were just kind of like, yeah, we expected that. And let's get on with it. And then we just started doing the things that we had to do. And my message to parents of autistic children is just focus on what you can control. Get on to the things that you have to do. Get a speech therapist. Get to the play structures in the house that they love with Valentina. It's a bouncy castle and a little trampoline and a lot of building blocks and enjoy them. She's so much fun. She's a fun little girl. She loves to jump. She's scared of nothing. If anything, the problem is she's a bit too much of a daredevil. But she's a thrilling little girl to be around. She loves to, like you see all the pictures with her on my shoulder. She always loves to climb on my back. And she loves to run. She loves me to run with.”
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“My wife was able to discern that there was something different about Valentina very early on when she was still a baby because she didn't make a lot of eye contact. And there was a period during which she was not very communicative at all, even in ways that babies normally are. There wasn't a lot of reciprocal communication to start with So when we went for the diagnosis”
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“This she'll see someone who might be acting differently in a crowd, and other people are looking at that person and she'll grab my hand and she'll say, I think he's autistic. And then she will often go and talk to that boy and make him feel loved. So compassion is about feeling what the other person feels and you have a greater ability to do that when there's a loved one close to you who has the experience.”
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“Too often governments have seen people with disabilities as just someone they have to care for but not someone who can contribute. And I believe that everybody has something to contribute and that we should try to unlock that in every human being. We don't know exactly what Valentina will do, but I believe she will do some kind of a job at some point in the future. And I'm very passionate about policies that enable people with disabilities to have work opportunities, even if it's just very limited, to design programs so that when they have a, for example, cash or medication support, it doesn't get robbed from them just because they get a job. So it has focused my mind a lot on people. It gives you a sense of compassion because when you see somebody who might be different, like I see my daughter in that person, I see my daughter, often my wife is very good.”
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“It's reinforced my sense of Compassion for people who can't provide for themselves. And, you know, I've talked a lot about how government should be limited. I do think there's a very real role for government to help people who genuinely cannot provide for themselves, people who suffer from with disabilities being probably the best example. And it has reinforced to me that we have to also have policies that recognize the inherent worth of every individual.”
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“Well, a lot of things, like one, we obviously have to build up a nest egg for her so that if she can't earn income, she will have the resources for a great life after we're gone. And second, we're really hoping that we forge a very permanent and Deep bond between her and her brother Cruz. One of the things he says again and again is my job is to protect Valentina from bad guys. So this is a good attitude, especially that they are actually in the same class, even though she's older. She is in his class at school. And so he's daddy's eyes to protect our little princess. But I think when he's older, I believe, based on his nature that he's going to be there for her. And we are building a plan towards that.”
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“She is autistic, she's on the spectrum. So the biggest difference between Valentina and other children is the ability to communicate verbally. So we're working very hard on that. She's making some encouraging progress, but she does have some challenges in that area. She's very acrobatic and rambunctious. She loves to climb, swing, bounce, jump. And she is extremely affectionate. And one of the superpowers she has is that whatever she does, she does 100%. She's also 100% authentic. And that's not the case once kids get old enough to manipulate to get what they want. They can put on axe and artifices. She doesn't do that. She's the real deal all the time. You know exactly how she feels because she indicates it. And she's very blessed to have a little brother Cruz who adores her and treats her better than anyone else in the world.”
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“But DEI has been in place now for several decades, and how is it working? You're reading the statistics to show that it's not. So maybe it's not actually doing what it's designed to do. Maybe it's doing other things.”
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“So I had not seen those data point before, but I would say that these sound like really stupid bankers because they're making a bad decision to deny people a mortgage and ultimately deny themselves the business if that's how they're making their judgments.”
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“Rate, well, what they've actually done is that in many minority communities where the law-abiding people are now suffering as a result of Criminals of all backgrounds. And so, ironically, it's actually government policies that are causing people of disadvantaged backgrounds to suffer even more. So wokism accentuates all of those problems rather than solving them. So I'm interested in solving problems to give everybody the opportunity to live a safe, affordable opportunity-filled life. And wokism is not doing that, actually creating a free market, free enterprise economy with free people who have free speech. That's the single best way to give people of all racial backgrounds a better chance in life.”
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“Well, I go back to my first principles. I think that government is responsible for a lot of the barriers that are put in place. So let me give you some examples. When government brings into place these anti-housing policies that I described, they impact far more on minorities and disadvantaged people than they do on established people, obviously, because if you're new to a country or you come from a poorer background, you won't have a house. And then you're the one who's going to pay the biggest price for the fact that government is making housing unaffordable. If you think at the occupational licensing rules that I just described that block immigrants from having working in their professions, even when they're thoroughly qualified, those are government-imposed obstacles that prevent people from getting ahead. Also, a lot of these soft on crime policies have been sold to us on the grounds that they're going to help minorities by ensuring that we don't have as high a conviction.”
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“Our institutions have to be conscious about making sure that we are judging people based on their merit, and they should work aggressively to make sure that everyone, regardless of where they come from, their background, has a chance to succeed, get the job, get the promotion, move up the ladder. I don't think that is achieved by breaking people down into more and more different groups and divisions by trying to build the barriers between people based on race and gender. I think it's by actually removing them. So the problem I have with wokeism is it seems almost designed to divide people. And that is exactly the opposite of the objective that we all sought when we pushed for racial equality and personal and personal freedom and responsibility.”
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“I think the answer is equality. There has to be strict equality and equal treatment regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, religion. And that is the ideal to which we were all striving. And I think if we get back to that, then we can give everybody a chance to achieve based on their own merit. What we need is a meritocracy that is colorblind and judges people based on what they can do.”
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“Is exactly the opposite of that. It's like accentuates all of those differences and disagreements. It groups people based on what should be a relevant characteristics like race and gender, and then having divided people into groups, it seeks to expand state control over their lives. What I believe in is treating people as individuals and letting them live their own lives, judging them exclusively on their own merits. And I think that was the consensus view of both liberals and conservatives up until this toxic ideology came along and divided people.”
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“Yeah, look, on DEI, and I don't think that is something particular to President Trump. I mean, there's a lot of people around the world who, for their own reasons, and based on their own experiences, have criticized that particular ideology. What I think has changed is that liberals used to believe in liberty and conservatives believed in conserving it. You know, they used to say liberals were the gas pedal, conservatives were the brake, but we were both heading in generally the same direction. But what I think happened with wokeism is that it is a deeply illiberal ideology. It is liberalism, traditional liberalism was a colorblind ideology. It was based on total equality, regardless of gender, sexuality, race, or anything else wokism.”
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“I would say my temperament has matured. Ten years ago I did not have a wife and kids. As a father you end up having to grow in a tremendous amount of patience because kids don't do what they're told or they have needs that must supersede your own. You're constantly making compromises with a spouse in order to juggle all of the difficulties of family life. And that necessarily spills over into your political approach. I think temperamentally I've changed a much more careful and thoughtful than I was say in my late 20s and early 30s.”
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“A lineup of world-class athletes reach the finish line. The more the government becomes involved in the race, the greater the number of hurdles, competitors will encounter. Therefore, as Prime Minister, what I would do to improve living standards is not as nearly as important as what I would not do as Prime Minister I would relinquish to citizens as much of my social, political, and economic control as possible, leaving people to cultivate their own personal prosperity and to govern their own affairs as directly as possible.”
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“Sure, although we Canadians seldom recognize that the most important garden of our living standards is freedom, freedom to earn a living and share the fruits of our labor with loved ones, the freedom to build personal prosperity through risk taking and strong work ethic, the freedom of thought and speech, the freedom to make personal choices and the collective freedom of citizens to govern their own affairs democratically Government's job is to constantly find ways to remove itself from obstructing such freedoms, human beings are graced with the gifts of creativity, wisdom, and ingenuity. The best way for a society to go about improving its living standards is to allow citizens to apply these qualities to the challenges of everyday life, the living standards of thirty million of the world's brightest is as about as realistic as asking him to take to an Olympic sprinting track to help”
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“Right, when you focus on what you can control, you are the actor rather than the acted upon. If you say, if you spend a lot of your time thinking about the things you cannot control, then you become a helpless victim. Whereas if you focus on what you can, then you become like the driver of the car, you decide where it goes. And as my favorite poem says, Invictus, that Nelson Mandela used to read himself when he was in prison for all those years in South Africa. He would recite to himself the poem Invictus to remind him that he could focus on what he was in control of, which was his own soul. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. That gives you a lot of peace.”
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“Yes, it's a great book. The amazing thing about it is it's so readable. Like he talks about, this is just a random page, but it's a very interesting excerpt. When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself, the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But if you go on and read it, what it basically says is expect these things. And if you do, but don't be controlled by them. These are factors outside of your control. Put all of your emphasis on the things that are within your control. And it will bring a tremendous amount of peace. Because when you are focused on what you can control, you're the boss of your life. And that's what stoicism has done for me.”
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“I don't want to blame someone else for the outcome of the election because at the end of the day, the people voted and they made their decision and I have to be at peace with it. So I can't spend my time thinking on what ifs because if that what-if hadn't happened, then there might have been another what if. So I have to focus on what I can control.”
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“We'll never know. I mean, these are the kinds of things you speculate about, but at the end of the day, what good does it do to speculate? And I also don't like to make excuses. I like to say, look, if this person hadn't done X, then I would be in charge. I have to own my result, and that's what I do.”
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“You know, I didn't spend a lot of time on that. I just got back at it. Because at the end of the day, you have to focus on what you can control. And my approach in life is to zero in on what is in your control. That is the greatest thing you can do for your mental health and for your output as a person. I believe in a stoic approach. So I didn't spend a lot of time sort of rolling around on the ground in melancholy.”
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“Her life story, and then she went up to the membership desk and said, Can I borrow eight dollars? And they said, what do you need it for? She said, well, I only have seven dollars. And they said, oh, there's a bank machine downstairs. You can go get some more cash. And she says, I don't have a bank card. And they said, well, perhaps could you go to your car and get some money? She said, well, I don't have any money in my car. What about your home? Because we're not allowed to buy them under the rules for other people. And she said, I don't have a home. I live in my car. And the $7 is all the money I own. And I'm spending it on a membership so that I can vote for Mr. Pollia because he is my only hope. This is the only chance I have. So I wanted to deliver for these people. And when we didn't win, I felt terrible that I hadn't delivered for them.”
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“Yes, so my leadership started in twenty twenty two as we're coming out of COVID. And there were so many people who placed so much hope in me who had suffered so much they would tell me they felt like they lost control of their lives and that they vested hope in me. So I'd get young people who'd say, you have to win because I want to start a family and I can't start a family in this economy or mothers who would say we just can't afford food anymore or police officers say I've arrested the same guy four times this week and he keeps getting released. You have to win to fix these problems. It's not about you, Mr. Pollyev. It's about the stuff that's happening in our lives and you have to fix it. You know, I had a lady come to one of my rallies because when you vote to choose a leader of a party, you have to pay $15 to join the party. And she came up and told me about...”
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“Oh, it was a roller coaster. And it was like so many things were changing so fast and moving so quickly in the moment. It's like you don't really have time to feel anything. You're just doing so much so quickly. That your emotions There put on delay until after it's all over.”
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“A good question. I think it allowed this conversation to move away from the domestic record of the government and onto external factors. And that always helps the incumbent and hurts the challenger.”
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“One of the challenges I had was I wanted to focus on the things that were going on in people's lives, the doubling of housing costs, the rising crime rate, the inflation crisis, and my solutions to all of those problems. But a lot of that was swept off of the conversation because everyone was focused suddenly on the tariffs and the president.”
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“Well, if you look what happened, our support didn't drop that much. The other parties collapsed in behind the Liberal Party, and it was largely due to the Canada-U.S. issue that you raised. So, but at the same time, we got the biggest vote count we had ever received and the highest share of vote that we received since 1988. So we did perform very well. Our opponents performed even better. And now we have to build on the solid base that we've accumulated in order to win the next election.”
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“As Canadians react very badly to that, and we're not going to ever be the 51st state or any part of the United States of America. The American people are our friends. They've been our top trading partner, our closest ally. As President Kennedy said, history has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. Geography has made us neighbors and necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature have thus joined together let no man put asunder, but he understood that Canada was a separate country that had its own unique interests. And I think the American people understand that as well. I think the American people are very fond of Canada as a neighbor and friend, but they understand we will always be a sovereign country.”
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“Very good for Canada to be next door to the biggest military power the world has ever seen and have friendly relations that go back to the early 1800s before we were even a country. We had largely friendly relations with this enormous power. But what has become clear is that we cannot simply rely on the Americans to protect us. We have to be able to protect ourselves. And that requires a massive military buildup for a country of our size. The second biggest country anywhere in the world, we have the longest oceanic coastline, even longer than Russia. So that takes money and it takes a build up like we've never seen. And that's what we as Canadians agree has to happen now.”
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“We want to be able to decide for ourselves. We want to be masters in our own home. In Quebec, they say Maitre Chinu. And so if we want to control our own destiny and territory, we have to be able to protect ourselves. It has been...”
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“Absolutely Because there's a consensus that we have not done enough to protect our territory from the incursions of hostile powers. And we often say in Canada, if you don't use it, you lose it. There's large territories of our country that are very hard to live in. We have an incredible Inuit population, but obviously you can't heavily populate the Arctic archipelago with industry and stuff. So how do you assert sovereignty over those treasured territories? Well, you have to have a military presence there. For Canada, it's that we want to maintain and ensure that we can make our own decisions without relying on the Americans.”
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“That's true. Listen, we are a warrior nation. Make no mistake about it. We were in the world wars two years before the Americans. And we are kind of like a golden retriever. We're friendly. We're likable. We like to get along. But if provoked, we will fight back.”
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“I don't see a need for that. I don't know what we would get from it. We don't have any desire to threaten anyone with nuclear weapons. I don't see a purpose for that right now.”
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“We made a decision, I think it was about, I want to say about 40 or 50 years ago not to pursue nuclear arm. We didn't think we had any need for it. Lots of nuclear power, lots of uranium, but we don't use it for weaponry.”
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“Well, let's put it this way. Venezuel Iran, Cuba, these are all countries that were in the realm of influence of Beijing. And there the countries where the United States is pursuing a change. So there is the war that we watch on the evening news and the real interest behind them that is driving it.”
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“Well, there is an incredible book called Thucydides Trap, which a professor named Allison said that throughout history he took, I think, twenty occasions where an incumbent superpower was caught up on by a challenging superpower. And I think the majority of cases it did end up in war. And now he said it's not necessary though, and it doesn't have to happen. It can be avoided. And he lays out a plan in his book for it to be avoided. I think it can be avoided as well if Beijing can be made to understand that it is in the interest of China to be part of the community of nations, to work collaboratively, to trade freely, to be a partner rather than an enemy. And I hope they make the right decision.”
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“I think it depends on what China decides to do. China is at a spectacular and brilliant civilization with so much to contribute to world harmony if that's their choice, if the government decides that it's going to direct the immense successes of that country towards trading and working with other countries, then there's nothing to worry about. But if it is a very aggressive bellicose approach using technology for espionage interference in foreign countries as they have done in Canada, invading Taiwan, then China and Beijing in particular, the regime could become the biggest risk and threat to our country.”
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“And so UAE is a more technologically advanced country than Canada, and eyeballs are the same in the UAE as they are in Canada. Immigrants in Canada have historically been more educated than our Canadian-born population, just in terms of their credentials, but have not been able to fulfill their work because our licensing system shuts them out. So I want to fix that with a merit-based test that gets them into the high-paying jobs that will actually strengthen our economy.”
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“Look, economic immigration of high-skilled people to our country has always been successful, and nobody resents that. One of the things that we have to do, though, is when people get to Canada, they have to be able to fulfill their potential. In Canada today, we have these gatekeepers that block immigrant professionals from even working in their field. So, for example, we have 20,000 immigrant doctors and 32,000 immigrant nurses who can't work in medicine because they can't get a license to practice. There's this incredibly bureaucratic system they have to go through that takes eight or nine years to prove that they actually have the qualifications. It's so crazy that when I went in for my eye surgery, there's a technician there who literally flies to the UAE to do eye surgeries 10 days a month and then comes back to his family in Ottawa where we only let him work as a technician.”
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“Right. Yeah. It's a different situation in the US. The immigration problem in the U.S. goes back many, many years, many, many years of chaos at their southern border. We didn't have that in Canada. That was unheard of. We had roughly 1% of population immigrating to Canada for 200 years. It was uncontroversial in Canada up until this very strange, inexplicable spike that really only helped very wealthy landlords and employers that wanted to drive wages down and rents up. They were the only beneficiaries of the extreme increase in numbers.”
2026-04-02 · The Diary of a CEO · Pierre Poilievre, The Next Prime Minister of Canada?: The Economy Is About To Collapse! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And now everyone across the political spectrum agrees that it went too far, too fast. And the approach that we're taking is that we have to make it a lawful system. It has to follow the rules. People have to come in legally in numbers that we can absorb and ultimately integrate into jobs, society, and our way of life. Population cannot grow faster than the housing stock, or you'll run out of places to live. It can't grow faster than the number of jobs, or you'll run out of paychecks for people. And so we need a controlled, orderly system that's both compassionate and common sense.”
2026-04-02 · The Diary of a CEO · Pierre Poilievre, The Next Prime Minister of Canada?: The Economy Is About To Collapse! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll just give you the Canadian experience. So for roughly 200 years, we had the most successful immigration system in the world. By far, in fact, other countries, both Republicans and Democrats in the United States used to say we need to study the Canadian system because it has been so successful. We had a point system that measured whether someone would be a good fit for our labor market, whether they would integrate well into our system. And overwhelmingly people integrated, intermarried. My wife is a refugee from Venezuela. That is not an uncommon story in Canada. What we encountered was a very sudden and inexplicable increase in the numbers in the period from 2021 to 2024 that was strictly out of line with our ability to absorb people into housing, health care, and jobs. And this upset the social piece on immigration that we had had for two centuries leading up to it.”
2026-04-02 · The Diary of a CEO · Pierre Poilievre, The Next Prime Minister of Canada?: The Economy Is About To Collapse! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT