Pierre Poilievre

So I think that's really the big question of whether or not the Western world is going to reinstate meritocratic free enterprise, or whether it's going to continue to concentrate undeserved benefits through state capitalism and big government.

It was the government itself.

It wasn't broadly the people.

The truckers in question, they were just looking to be heard.

Most of these people had never protested anything in their lives.

Through the early COVID days, they were considered the heroes because they were...

literally driving on lonely highways across international borders, often for weeks away from their families in total isolation, bringing us the things to our homes that we could not live without.

And then when

The time came for them to be heard.

The government robbed them of their liberties.

And by the way, this is no longer a controversial view.

The federal court now has ruled that the use of the Emergency Act to crack down on the protest was a violation of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

So it has even been accepted by the judiciary that that was wrong.

And it's a reminder of why we need to, the government has to treat itself as the servant and not the master.

And we need to give a bigger voice to the working people of our country who, in this case, we're simply looking for the right to speak, the freedom of mobility and bodily autonomy.

Not after that.

No, he was basically, he had to leave office, extremely unpopular.

So he did not get reelected after the use of the Emergency Act against the truckers.

Yeah, I wouldn't attribute it to that.

The Canadian people value their freedoms, and I was very outspoken in favour of individual freedom, not just on the issue of the pandemic, but more broadly on economics, and won a lot of support, so much so that the Liberal Party later then claimed that it was going to adopt many of my policies.