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Pierre Poilievre

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“Yes, that's right. I still remember when we went to pick him up. So we went to this, we got a phone call and I said, there's a little boy who happens to be half-brothers with Pierre. Would you like to adopt him too? He said, absolutely. So we went over to this building and we walk into this room. And there were all these rows of babies.”
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“Us up for adoption at 16 years old. She was 16, and then about three years later, she had another little boy, and he, Patrick, was then adopted by the same parents.”
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“Brother, yes. So it's my dad and my mother where they were school teachers. My brothers, my half brother because we came from the same biological mother, but a different biological father's adopted into the same family, kind of a complicated story.”
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“My mission is to make Canada the most affordable, freest and richest country in the world. My upbringing, I grew up in very humble beginnings. I grew up surrounded by working class people. Yeah, these are my folks. That's an old one.”
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“No, that's true. That's true. But I just think it's a good principle to follow, particularly during a negotiation that's happening across the border in that country. Like, you know, I think it would be a little different if we were in normal times and there was no trade dispute or if we were in a country with which we have no particular contention for me to say something critical about the government's policy back home would not have any repercussions for the nation. But particularly over the next several months, well, these talks are hopefully going to go on. I want to get the best outcome for Canada and I have to put my country above myself.”
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“Well, I don't want to get in the way of negotiations with a foreign country. Obviously, my job is to be his opposition in the House of Commons on domestic issues and even on international issues, but not to do so in a way that undermines the national interest.”
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“Removing bureaucracic obstacles. The resources we have are massively profitable for the private sector to mine, refine, store, and ship as long as they can get the permits and the low enough taxes to do it. So we need to remove those obstacles so that it now becomes possible for private investment not subsidized by government, no handouts for business, but private investment to unlock and unblock those resources.”
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“I've never met him I've never spoken to him. No, I don't have no. I made the decision that we have one prime minister at a time, and because we are negotiating a trade deal, it's more like a review of our existing deal, I don't want our side as Canadians to be divided, even though I obviously disagree with my prime minister on a whole range of policy issues. I don't want to undermine in any way the Canadian side of the bargaining table. I would only do that kind of conversation with a teamwork with the current government. But what I've said is that our approach vis- ⁇-vis Trump should be to focus on what we can control. So why not focus on what we can do at home, unlock our resources, build up a strategic reserve of minerals that are important to our American friends, but also to our other allies, a clearer the way to export more goods to overseas markets, build alliances with the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia,”
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“Well, it's funny you should ask because it shouldn't have to concern Canadians. Our enormous supply of oil should actually insulate us from it. Normally what used to happen in Canada is when the global price of oil rose, our dollar would rise with it because people would be buying more of our oil, which meant they had to first buy our dollar. A more powerful Canadian dollar meant that we had more buying power for internationally priced commodities like oil and food. So we used to be protected from international oil price increases in a way that we're not anymore because our sector is no longer as strong and as big as it was as a share of our economy. And so what I want to do is unleash oil production in Canada, clear the regulatory bureaucracy, the government gatekeepers, get rid of industrial carbon taxes, and have a stronger”
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“I think it all depends on the intelligence they have about the nuclear capacity. That is the hinge point. We cannot allow a nuclear-powered Iranian military. That is what they need to determine.”
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“I said, I would focus on the core objective of making sure that there's not a nuclear-armed Iran without getting involved in a permanent quagmire.”
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“Canada are proudly Canadian, and they will tell you that there's almost no support for the regime among the people of Iran. They need to find a way to overturn the regime, and that would give a lot of comfort and peace to the rest of the world, but it would also give democracy to a deserving people.”
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“Well, it could go a variety of ways. Remember, the First Persian Gulf War, George Herbert Walker Bush, decided that he had downgraded and penalized Saddam Hussein enough for the invasion of Kuwait. He declared victory and he moved on. And ultimately that left a lot of stability in the region. His son then went and pursued a full out and out regime change, and that was a much longer enterprise. The president will have to decide which of those two bushes he uses as a model. But I think that the important thing is to know what the objective is. For me, the objective has to be to make sure that the Iranian government never gets the capacity to send long-range nuclear missiles to countries or even short and medium range to Israel for that matter. Beyond that, I think it's up to the Iranian people to take advantage of the weakness of the regime and rise up and reclaim their country. I don't think this regime has popular support. I know a lot of Iranians, we are blessed to have a lot of very secular pro-Western Persians who live in”
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“So, our prime minister did support the attack, and I agreed with Prime Minister Carney on that point. That is distinct from contributing Canadian soldiers, sailors, and air crew. I'm not proposing that we send ground troops to Iran. And we are not in a position right now to supply a lot of the demands that this conflict would require. It depends on what they ask for before we get an answer from Canada on what it is that we can provide.”
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“Dream if they believe that there's an afterlife in which they could be rewarded for carrying out mass destruction on what they call the infidels. They don't respond to deterrence the same way that Pyongyang in North Korea would. There's a far greater risk to them having a nuclear weapon than even having that in a communist totalitarian state like North Korea. But for Canada in this environment, our superpower is again our resources. And that's why it has been one of my major obsessions to unblock our resources, get them to tide water, accumulate them in a strategic reserve that would allow us to really flex our energy muscles in environments like this and also reduce dependence on regime like Iran, like Saudi Arabia, like Venezuela.”
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“Yes, and this is what we have to stop. I mean, the idea that they are carrying out this aggression simply because they've been attacked is false, they would have eventually carried it out. The question is when and with what means. And if we had just sort of slept and waited, we would have ended up with a catastrophe. This is different than North Korea. North Korea was allowed to get nuclear weapons, but they don't have the same celestial fundamentalist ideology there. Ultimately, the regime in North Korea is interested in its own survival and its power. The regime in Tehran has a theocratic”
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“I think that the initial actions were definitely necessary, particularly the bombings four or five months ago to target the nuclear development sites. But I think any actions to degrade their nuclear capabilities, prevent them from ever achieving them, is favorable. And I hope that it will weaken the regime enough for the people to overtake it and claim control of their country.”
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“but also for faraway lands, if given the ability to develop long-range missiles. So my view and the view of the Canadian government is that the Iranian government cannot be allowed to develop nuclear weapons and any action to stop them from doing that is necessary for world peace.”
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“The Iranian government has been extremely hostile and very dangerous to Canada. They killed fifty five Canadian citizens and thirty permanent residents by shooting a civilian aircraft out of the sky seven fifty two for reasons we still do not understand and with no explanation whatsoever, they have unleashed agents into our communities and streets to harass the Jewish and Persian communities of Canada. And they are the leading world sponsor of terrorism. It is absolutely unacceptable for the Iranian government to ever acquire nuclear weapons. And there's no doubt in my mind that the only reason that they are enriching uranium is for martial purposes. There's no need to enrich it to the degree they have in order just to have nuclear power plants. I have no doubt that they were doing it for the purpose of developing a weapon. And if that were to happen, it could be catastrophic.”
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“What we want is tariff free trade for our steel, aluminum, lumber, and automobiles. And in exchange for that, we can produce more oil and sell more of it at better prices to the United States of America. Oil is only one part of it. There's also the strategic minerals that are necessary for God forbid modern warfare. And we have those as well. We are a resource superpower, and I want to leverage that to get what we want from the US and from other nations.”
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“Frankly, we don't really understand what the dispute with Canada is about because we've been a very good and friendly partner to the United States ever since the early 1800s before we even formed as a confederation. What I would say to Americans, though, is you shouldn't have to worry about all of these countries if you're working collaboratively with Canada and you're trading freely with a separate country to the north, then you will not be bound by what happens in these other less stable and arguably more hostile countries. What I believe we as Canadians need to do is use our natural resources as leverage to get”
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“Just a random example, the American's friends in neighboring Canada would have a couple hundred millions barrels that are already produced and ready for use if it's needed. So this is really kind of rocket fuel for the Canadian economy, but it's a strategically important for our American friends. We could cooperate better on this if we got a friendly posture and a fully terra-free trade arrangement with the US.”
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“That's right. We could maybe pull that over here. This is the oil reserves by country. As you can see, Canada is number four. And after us is Iraq and then the United States. But if you look at the leading five, which of these countries do you think the United States can most rely on? Is it Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Iraq? No, it's Canada. It works very well with American refineries, and we sell it to the United States at enormous price discount. Furthermore, we could build up an enormous reserve of this oil so that if God forbid, the Strait of Hormuz were to be closed.”
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“I think that is a very big strategic mistake. I think America would be better off working with the traditional Western alliance that help win the Cold War. We had a very big menace, nuclear-armed Soviet Union that was expansionary. Its empire was pushing eastward into Europe, and the response of the United States was to build a strong NATO alliance and then to unleash its economy, to just outproduce the Soviets and bring them to their knees. In Canada's case, we have everything the United States needs if they treat us like a friend. We have the fourth biggest supply of oil.”
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“If you're the United States, you should want more friends, more trade with those friends, and that's one of the reasons why I've been touring the United States to make the case for Canada and to remind our American friends that they are stronger working with countries like Canada and the United Kingdom than they are pushing those natural allies away.”
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“The history starts really in the post war period with the massive increase in the power and the wealth of the United States. They unleashed the capitalist system, they effectively buried the Soviet Union just by outhustling, outproducing, and outgrowing until the Soviet Union collapsed, and then a new authoritarian power snuck up on the United States. China went from having 80% of its population living on less than a dollar a day to being the second biggest economy in the world. At the same time, the American working class has been thoroughly screwed over by relentless money printing that has inflated their cost of living while also inflating the wealth of a small group of elites. And I think this resulted in a major pushback. Now, some of that was justified, that pushback is justified, but I also think some of it is very much unjustified. Tariffing countries like Canada makes no sense.”
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“We're overtaxing our population. We're punishing initiative. We have 20,000 immigrant doctors who can't work in medicine. Wages have been destroyed. Young people can't start a family in this economy. And that is why the working class across the Western world is so angry. The good news is we can reverse all of that.”
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“The Iranian government has been extremely hostile and very dangerous to Canada. They are the leading world sponsor of terrorism, and there's no doubt in my mind that the only reason that they are enriching uranium is for the purpose of developing a weapon. And there's a far greater risk to them having a nuclear weapon than even North Korea. So the initial actions were definitely necessary.”
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“And that is a very big strategic mistake. In Canada's case, we have everything the United States needs if they treat us like a friend. So, for example, we have the fourth biggest supply of oil. And if you look at the leading five, which of these countries you think the United States can most rely on?”
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