Pierre Poilievre

I was wondering, as you went on that campaign trail, and generally over the last 10 years of your career, it's clear to me that your core principles have been quite consistent.

I have this...

This document you wrote when you were, I think, 20 years old, which was part of a contest where you won $10,000.

That's right.

For explaining what you would do if you were prime minister, if you were leading Canada.

I found the check.

It wasn't cashed.

So you won $10,000 for submitting this when you were 20 years old, explaining what you would do if you ever became the prime minister.

Yes.

And I would like you to actually just read the opening three paragraphs, because it is quite interesting to see how you've evolved, if at all.

Could you just read those first three paragraphs and give me any of the context, which I might have excluded?

In the last decade since you've been out on the road more speaking to people, campaigning, where have your views evolved?

The people that have – opposition parties have often referred to you as Trump-lite.

I guess because you're both conservatives, I guess that would be much of the argument.

And you both have spoken out against this term wokeism and DEI.

One of the things I – you know, I'm a black man.

I was – I moved from Botswana when I was a baby and came to the UK and –

Thank God there was sort of social systems in place because I don't think that I would have had the outcomes I'd had.

One of the things that I did know, though, when I was 18, dropped out of university and started to get into the world of business, is I was aware, because when you look at like funding data for entrepreneurs that are black or especially women,

it's clear that there's like a systemic disadvantage of some sort.