Pierre Poilievre

So you unblock home building and you could have very, very affordable homes.

Everyone could afford to own in Canada if we did that.

And that's exactly what I want to reverse.

We have to cut income taxes so that the brilliant kids that come out of Waterloo and Kitchener and Engineering can stay in Canada and earn an incredible living and own an affordable house.

And we know we can do it.

We have so many advantages over the Americans geographically, the landmass we have, the population that we have.

We should be the richest and most affordable country in the world.

And we can be.

Do you want to talk about the tariff policy or the recent actions in Iran and Venezuela?

What would you like to address?

Here's what I think is happening.

For, you know, 50 years,

The United States made a calculation that they could trade freely with China and build a friendship with that rising power.

And they blinked and all of a sudden they had a very powerful rival.

They looked around and saw that their entire industrial base had been hollowed out, whole towns had been emptied, and they had become increasingly dependent on a country that was at best a serious rival and at worst a serious threat.

And they decided that they were going to assert dominance in order to counter that rivalrous threat.

Some of that thinking was justified.

Some of it has since been mistargeted.

Canada, for example, despite all of the criticisms you might have made about public policy decisions, Canada is not the problem.

And so I think that targeting Canada is a mistake and a distraction.