Category: Pierre Poilievre

Tory Government Would Freeze Infrastructure Money to Cities That Don’t Get Housing Built: Poilievre

As a strategy to get more homes built in Canada, a Conservative government would link the number of infrastructure dollars cities get to the number of houses completed, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on Friday. “City governments that block construction will be fined with clawbacks to their federal infrastructure money, while those that get out of the way, speed up building permits, and free…


Tories to Force House Vote on Making Trudeau’s Top Advisor Testify About Election Interference

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will force a House of Commons vote to have the prime minister’s top advisor, Katie Telford, testify before the ethics committee about her knowledge regarding election interference. All opposition party members on the Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) already support a motion to order Telford…


Tories to Force House Vote on Making Trudeau’s Top Adviser Testify About Election Interference

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will force a House of Commons vote to have the prime minister’s top adviser, Katie Telford, testify before the ethics committee about her knowledge regarding election interference. All opposition party members on the Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) already support a motion to order Telford…


Alleged Beijing Interference in Vancouver Elections ‘Deeply Concerning’: NDP Leader

Opposition party leaders have reacted to the latest national security leak alleging that the Chinese regime interfered in the Vancouver municipal elections last year, with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh expressing grave concerns. “As somebody who represents Burnaby, a neighbouring city, the idea of a foreign government influencing our municipal election is deeply concerning, it should…


Opposition Leaders Voice Concern Over Trudeau’s Appointment of Johnston as Special Rapporteur on Foreign Interference

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet have voiced concerns over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s appointment of former governor general David Johnston as the government’s “independent special rapporteur” on foreign election interference. “Justin Trudeau has named a ‘family friend,’ old neighbour from the cottage, and member of the Beijing-funded Trudeau foundation, to…


Liberal MPs Further Delay Vote to Call Trudeau’s Adviser to Testify on Foreign Interference

Liberal MPs continued with their plan to block the testimony of the prime minister’s chief of staff before a House of Commons committee on March 14, speaking in turn for a whole day to avoid voting on a motion supported by all opposition parties. Conservatives, Bloc Québécois, and NDP MPs form a majority on the…


Poilievre Says It’s an ‘Accepted Fact’ That Beijing Helped Elect Trudeau

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre said on March 14 that the national security leaks in the media have established that the Liberals were helped by the Chinese regime to get elected. “I think Justin Trudeau has inspired a lot of suspicion by his refusal to … answer questions about his knowledge of Beijing’s interference to…


Poilievre Says a Tory Gov’t Would Sue Big Pharma for Role in Opioid Crisis

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on March 14 that if elected, his government would launch a “massive” series of lawsuits amounting to $44 billion against large pharmaceutical multinationals for their role in Canada’s opioid and addiction crisis. “The people who profited from this misery should be the ones to pay the bill. It’s about bringing…


Poilievre and Trudeau Engage in One-on-One Verbal Tussle on Foreign Interference

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on March 8 faced a barrage of questions on Beijing interference coming from Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre and other MPs in the House of Commons. Poilievre took every turn from his party during question period, raising a number of allegations stemming from national security leaks reported in the media, and…


Poiliviere Calls Trudeau’s Rapporteur to Investigate Interference a ‘Fake Job’

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the prime minister’s “independent rapporteur” to investigate foreign election interference will not be “independent.” “He could pick someone independent, but he won’t,” Poilievre told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday. “He’ll pick another Liberal establishment insider—a real Ottawa insider with some gray hair who looks like a reasonable fellow, but we…