Pierre Poilievre

Well, I look back at everything I've done for my entire political career to the time I was a teenager. You know, some people even dug up my old university essays, and I've been saying precisely the same thing the entire time. You know, when I was 20, I wrote an essay, As Prime Minister I Would, and the title was Building Canada on Freedom.

The entire piece was about making the government small and maximizing personal freedom. That's basically what I'm doing now. So you have consistency going for you. Well, there were things, when I launched my leadership race, I literally had the same language in my leadership launch speech that I had put in that essay 22 or 23 years earlier.

The entire piece was about making the government small and maximizing personal freedom. That's basically what I'm doing now. So you have consistency going for you. Well, there were things, when I launched my leadership race, I literally had the same language in my leadership launch speech that I had put in that essay 22 or 23 years earlier.

The entire piece was about making the government small and maximizing personal freedom. That's basically what I'm doing now. So you have consistency going for you. Well, there were things, when I launched my leadership race, I literally had the same language in my leadership launch speech that I had put in that essay 22 or 23 years earlier.

And when I was part of the Harper government, we basically fought for and did the same things then that I'm proposing to do now. So as much as you can be assured of anything any political leader says, I've got evidence to back it up.

And when I was part of the Harper government, we basically fought for and did the same things then that I'm proposing to do now. So as much as you can be assured of anything any political leader says, I've got evidence to back it up.

And when I was part of the Harper government, we basically fought for and did the same things then that I'm proposing to do now. So as much as you can be assured of anything any political leader says, I've got evidence to back it up.

I know better.

I know better.

I know better.

I'm not going to do that. And it will be hard because the temptation will be... This is the mistake that conservative parties around the world have made countless times. They think...

I'm not going to do that. And it will be hard because the temptation will be... This is the mistake that conservative parties around the world have made countless times. They think...

I'm not going to do that. And it will be hard because the temptation will be... This is the mistake that conservative parties around the world have made countless times. They think...

well, anybody who's got a conservative mindset is already voting for me so I can go off and chase the ideas of my political opponents and then everyone will love me because I'll have the conservatives due to the fact that I have the name conservative and then I'll have all these other people because I've embraced their contrary direction

well, anybody who's got a conservative mindset is already voting for me so I can go off and chase the ideas of my political opponents and then everyone will love me because I'll have the conservatives due to the fact that I have the name conservative and then I'll have all these other people because I've embraced their contrary direction

well, anybody who's got a conservative mindset is already voting for me so I can go off and chase the ideas of my political opponents and then everyone will love me because I'll have the conservatives due to the fact that I have the name conservative and then I'll have all these other people because I've embraced their contrary direction

And in the short term, it works because you manage to have all of these people under, and all of the different political ideologies captured in one tent. But the problem happens when the policies are a disaster. And then people wake up and go, oh my God, my taxes are now up. The inflation is out of control. The deficit is spiraling. There's crime on the streets.

And in the short term, it works because you manage to have all of these people under, and all of the different political ideologies captured in one tent. But the problem happens when the policies are a disaster. And then people wake up and go, oh my God, my taxes are now up. The inflation is out of control. The deficit is spiraling. There's crime on the streets.

And in the short term, it works because you manage to have all of these people under, and all of the different political ideologies captured in one tent. But the problem happens when the policies are a disaster. And then people wake up and go, oh my God, my taxes are now up. The inflation is out of control. The deficit is spiraling. There's crime on the streets.

So does the temptation exist to try and take on the political policies of the socialists in the short term? Sure, but it's one that I will fiercely resist because I know that by the fourth year of my mandate— people would be enraged because their lives would be even worse. So it will be tough though. Like it's going to be a trade-off.