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Pierre Poilievre

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1614 total appearances

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

We have too many of those.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

What we need is more opportunity in the Indigenous communities themselves.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

Look, it's an incredible opportunity.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

I think it could massively increase the availability of goods and services at much lower prices if it's allowed to and if monetary inflation doesn't cancel out all the benefits again.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

But one thing I ask myself is if AI is going to replace a number of different tasks that we do, what kind of meaning will people have in their lives, right?

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

I'm a big believer in Viktor Frankl, incredible psychologist.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

And his thesis was that people need meaning, even more than they need food and water.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

They need meaning in their lives to give them happiness.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

And he tells the story of a group therapy session where there were two ladies.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

One was a very wealthy woman who had married a very rich man.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

And she was sitting next to a woman who lived in poverty and had two children, one who died early and the other who was severely disabled.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

And he said to both of them, when you're on your deathbed at 80, what will you look back upon your life and say?

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

And the wealthy woman said, well, I'll say that I had an easy life with lots of joys and easy, frivolous pleasures, but it all really meant nothing.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

Whereas the mother who had struggled and fought for her kids said, well, I look back on my life, and though my first child had a short life, it was a beautiful one.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

And my second child had a disability.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

I made him into a great person.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

And I would look back at my life and say it was an incredible success.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

So the point being.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

that life is not just a pleasure machine.

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The Elite have Betrayed the People - Canada’s Opposition Leader, Pierre Poilievre

It's about having meaning.