Pierre Poilievre

But so, you know, very stoically, we have to focus on the things we can control.

Working with China?

Look, I think we need to trade and talk with China.

The Chinese people constitute a brilliant and extraordinary civilization.

There's no denying it.

And if we're being honest about it, they've been outworking, out-hustling, the people of China, but outworking, out-hustling those of us in the West for the last three decades.

It's incredible, really.

China went from a country with 80% of the population living in less than a dollar a day to the second biggest economy in one lifetime.

So you can't ignore them.

But the idea that we can have a permanent rupture with our closest neighbor and biggest customer in favor of a strategic partnership for a new world order with China is not on.

It's just not going to happen.

We sell 20 times as much to the Americans as we do to the Chinese.

They are American capitalism is the single biggest force economic force in the history of the world and They live right next door.

So we need to have a solid friendship free trade agreement and of course security partnership with the United States and there's no way that China or anyone else will replace that relationship and

Well, look, it doesn't have to be that way.

In 2015, the ultra-liberal New York Times wrote that Canada had the best and the strongest middle class in the world.

And people were actually leaving the US to go to Canada.

That was 10 years ago.

So Wilfrid Laurier, who was our first liberal and our first Francophone prime minister, actually said that Canada always had to have lower taxes than the United States because they would have this enormous economic gravitation.

And the only way to overcome that