Pierre Poilievre

And your team didn't tell me anything was off limits.

They didn't say there was anything I couldn't ask you.

They didn't ask to be able to edit this.

And I would like more politicians to follow in that vein.

The biggest phenomenon in the Western world over the last decade or two has been the total betrayal of the working class, the people who make stuff, fix stuff, move stuff, and build stuff.

Their opportunities are absolutely destroyed by massive government interventions that have concentrated wealth among a very small group of well-connected insiders.

Exactly the same thing, because it's being used as a pretext to concentrate money and power in the hands of the state.

Great to be with you.

Thanks for having me.

Well, listen, I think that the biggest phenomenon in the Western world over the last decade or two has been the total betrayal of the working class.

The people who make stuff, fix stuff, move stuff and build stuff.

The younger people who are entering the job market and trying to start a life who have seen their opportunities absolutely destroyed.

by massive government interventions that have concentrated wealth among a very small group of well-connected insiders.

And that, I think, has caused enormous amounts of political instability.

It has caused a resurgence of both socialism and of protectionism.

And now is a time, I think, for us to push back against that betrayal and give people back control of their lives.

And that is true right across the Western world.

It's especially true in Canada.

We need to restore home ownership.

bring back sound money, allow people to actually benefit from their hard work, and basically restore meritocracy, which was the very principle, the driving principle of Western economics for two and a half centuries.