Pierre Poilievre

So again, it's the same phenomenon, whether you're looking at mass immigration, censorship policies, these net zero schemes, blocking home building,

uh high very high taxes and as the french would call it dirigist economics where the government decides who gets what all of it has concentrated wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands and that is why our working class people are understandably and legitimately upset with the state of things and we have to provide them with a hopeful opportunity and a hopeful way forward that involves opportunity

to own homes, have affordable energy, affordable food, start families, raise kids, and live their lives.

And that's the hopeful vision that I'm trying to bring Canadians.

Well, the challenge for me was it was very hard to focus on the very powerful domestic case we had.

I mean, if you looked at the situation in Canada, the housing costs had doubled.

So had the food bank lineups.

I mean, we've got 2.2 million food bank visits every single month.

Wow.

a violent crime up 50%, the immigration system in shambles.

And we wanted to focus the election on that.

It became very difficult with the sound and fury of the Canada-U.S.

debate.

So my focus now is what do I do from here?

How do I go forward?

And obviously our trade relationship with the U.S.

is up for review.

We have

a free trade agreement that effectively dates back to the Mulroney era in the late 80s, early 90s, that has largely remained intact.

But that relationship is being renewed in the summer.