Pierre Poilievre

I don't know a lot of British youth.

Well, OK, so I think that in Canada, what we need to do is focus on what we can actually achieve together.

The indigenous peoples of Canada can be literally the richest people in the world, because the lands on which they live are among the most resource rich.

And one thing you will never hear about in the media

is the pro-energy, pro-oil and gas indigenous communities that are very common across Western Canada in particular, but also in the mining communities of Northern Ontario.

The previous Liberal government killed a number of natural resource projects as part of the net zero obsession.

that had overwhelming and near-unanimous support of the indigenous communities nearby.

There was one oil and gas mine, the Tech Frontier mine, $20 billion.

Every single indigenous community around it supported it.

And the government in Ottawa came in and killed it.

So the approach that we have tried to take as conservatives in Canada is to unleash incredible amounts of opportunity for First Nations.

allow energy companies to even pay some of their corporate tax obligation to local indigenous communities to help with fighting poverty, training young people, getting them into six-figure jobs in the trades.

So that's the approach that I take.

And I think it's a positive one.

And I think, you know, the traditional indigenous values, I believe, are quite conservative.

Faith in a creator, family, tradition.

And I think we can build on those foundations.

Well, the approach has been to block resource projects and then double the size of the bureaucracy for Indigenous affairs.

So that is not the right approach.

We don't need more bureaucrats in the nation's capital.