Pierre Poilievre
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And so what we have to do as Canadians is be stronger at home so that we have unbreakable leverage in any negotiations that come on that relationship.
And we've got a lot of leverage.
I mean, a lot of people underestimate Canada, but
We've got the fourth biggest oil supply.
We've got 10 of the 12 NATO defense critical minerals.
We've got the second biggest landmass, biggest oceanic coastline.
We should be leveraging all of that power to get what we want, which is basically tariff-free trade with our American friends.
And that's the approach I'm going to be taking going forward.
Is that fair to say?
I acknowledge that by saying I wanted to be talking about how we could make people's lives better on immigration, cost of living, housing, crime, all of that.
But it was very hard to do that when, obviously, the debate was going on.
Which is never going to happen.
Which is never going to happen.
And everybody knows it's never going to happen.
Well, the liberal government in Canada said that it was a joke at the time.
But what I would say is we can't control President Trump.
Yeah, I think that's fair to say.
I think it's very clear.
And actually, our prime minister has acknowledged that.
So that's one thing we actually agree on.