Pierre Poilievre
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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The population has to come together and secure a democratic government.
Well, by the way, I think that's also part of the same phenomenon I described earlier,
which is that those who want to have more power, what do you do?
You erase history because then they have a blank slate to write on.
You can create something out of nothing.
You can say everything, all of the foundations that created our civilization, we've wiped them away.
And now I pull out my magic marker and I paint a brand new civilization, which is, you know, if you look at
If you look at all the literature about dystopia, whether Huxley or Orwell, it involves eliminating the past.
But the only way to preserve freedom is to anchor it in history.
Our history, for example, goes back to a field about an hour from here.
in Runnymede, the Magna Carta, the great English liberties that we inherited as Canadians.
That is an 800-year-old tradition, an imperfect one, one that started off with a very small group securing their freedom by imposing liberty under the law, but then expanded over eight centuries to the imperfect state it is today.
But without that
800-year tradition, you don't have freedom.
So on the other side are those who want to erase all of that so that they can impose their agenda.
Yes.
Jordan Peterson.
Jordan Peterson.
Truly a great Canadian.
No.