15 Apr 2022 • 1 hour ago • 2 minutes reading • 37 Comments Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to a crowd of supporters at River Cree Resort and Casino in Enoch Cree Nation just west of Edmonton on Thursday 14 April 2022. Photo by David Bloom / Postmedia
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Using “freedom” as a rallying cry, Pierre Poilievre targeted various “gatekeepers” as he campaigned near Edmonton for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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After a meeting and greeting in Calgary earlier in the week, Poilievre spoke at a packed event hall, which overflowed with a ballroom at the River Cree Resort and Casino, just west of the capital Alberta on Thursday night. After criticizing vaccination orders and passports, the Ontario MP for Carleton provided some of his policy points as part of his effort to oust Liberal federal leader Prime Minister Justin Trindade in the next election. Among them, he proposed the elimination of political, financial and regulatory “gatekeepers”, such as Canada Infrastructure Bank, a Crown company that is responsible for financing infrastructure projects using $ 35 billion from the federal government. “We do not need another bank,” Poilievre said.
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Poilievre also said he would also create a “pay as you go” law to create a sense of fiscal responsibility. “If a minister wants to bring in an extra dollar of spending, he has to find an extra dollar of savings to pay for it,” he said. He also said he would “ax the federal coal tax”, “liberalize” production in Alberta’s energy sector and abolish accounts C-48 and C-69, which bar oil tankers off the coast of northern BC. . and affect energy scheduling projects respectively. On the other side of the country, he said he would help New Earth increase daily oil production to “displace all overseas oil”. Also in the candidate box is the C-11 Liberal federal bill, a new version of the controversial C-10 bill that died on paper after the announcement of the last federal election. The previous version of the bill was criticized for threatening freedom of expression when the government lifted the ban on user-created content, placing social media content under the regulatory authority of the Canadian Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission.
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The new bill revives the exception, but continues to be criticized by critics who say it gives too much power to the regulator. Poilievre said he would repeal the bill as well. On the employment front, the leadership candidate signaled the support of trained immigrants seeking employment in occupations as well as in fields such as medicine and engineering. Poilievre said he would use federal immigration funds to speed up the provinces’ process of recognizing foreign credentials. While many of the policy proposals were met with applause, the crowd seemed to cheer louder at the proposal that the federal government is compensating the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for $ 1 billion. —With files from Postmedia [email protected] twitter.com/hamdiissawi Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to a crowd of supporters at the River Cree Resort and Casino in Enoch Cree Nation just west of Edmonton on Thursday, April 14, 2022. David Bloom / Postmedia Photo by David Bloom David Bloom / David Bloom Postmedia Conservative Party candidate Pierre Poilievre speaks to a crowd of supporters at River Cree Resort and Casino in Enoch Cree Nation just west of Edmonton on Thursday, April 14, 2022. David Bloom / Postmedia Photo by David Bloom David Bloom / David Bloom / Postmedia
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