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Pierre Poilievre

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

You know, the corporatism of saying, well, we're going to tax all of the energy and we're going to block the resources and then we're going to take the money and give it to the government who's going to dole it out to all of these corporate insiders who claim

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

that they are doing something for the environment.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

When, in fact, you look very carefully, it's all BS.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

In fact, they have no problem directing much of that money to China, which is opening two coal fire plants a week.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

So it has nothing to do with the environment.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

It is entirely a pretext.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

to take from the working classes and give to a small group of insiders through the mechanism of the state.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

So whether you're talking about the net zero fraud or massive government redistribution schemes or just an overall growth in the bureaucracy, or even on the speech side, it's all about concentrating power and money in the hands of fewer and fewer people while taking away the opportunities of the people who actually do the work.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

The same phenomenon.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

Because here again...

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

What happened?

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

A corporate elite was able to drive down wages and drive up rent.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

Why?

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

They brought in low-wage temporary foreign workers.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

And they brought in enormous numbers of so-called students.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

Many of them weren't actually studying.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

But they ultimately provided a source of low-wage labor.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

and created a major demand for a fixed supply of housing.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

So the rent went up and the wages went down.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

And those multinationals that benefited from it, they concentrated even more wealth, while the working classes ultimately got shot out of jobs and homes.