The following is a transcript of the Hon. Pierre Poilievre’s remarks from March 10th, 2025. These remarks have been edited for length. Check against delivery.
The Liberal establishment has installed Justin Trudeau’s economic advisor as the next Liberal leader to trick Canadians into giving them a fourth term in power. But he’s just like Justin and he’s more of the same.
We have the same Liberal MPs, the same Liberal advisors, the same Liberal promises that will produce the same Liberal results: doubling housing costs, doubling the debt, doubling lineups at food banks, enriching the global elites at the expense of the working class and making our economy more helpless and reliant on the Americans than ever before. Now, Mark Carney is trying to hide from his record over the last five years of advising Trudeau in favour of raising carbon taxes, money printing inflation, and blocking resource projects, all while he moved his company headquarters and jobs to the United States.
It’s ironic. Mr. Carney is trying to distract from his many scandals and conflicts of interests, as well as his disastrous record as Justin Trudeau’s economic advisor by talking about Trump. He’s the guy that sold out to Trump! Six days after Donald Trump threatened Canada with tariffs to steal our jobs, Mark Carney announced to Brookfield shareholders that he would move his headquarters from Canada to New York. And when you asked him about it, he lied to your face. We got it in writing and we proved it.
He sold out Canada. He put his profit ahead of our people and he did exactly what Donald Trump wanted. Never before have we had a Prime Minister so conflicted and compromised, and yet so little scrutinized. Just like when he supported carbon taxes in Canada while investing in American coal. He opposed Canadian pipelines while his company bought Middle Eastern pipelines. He has millions of dollars of financial interests that run against Canada’s national interests.
He gets rich making Canadians poor. You can be sure about one thing. Donald Trump’s going to have a briefing on his desk of all of Mark Carney’s American investments, and he is going to leverage all of Carney’s profit motive against the interests of the Canadian people. And we know Carney will sell out Canada for his personal profit. He’s already done it. He’s systematically done it his entire time as a corporate insider. Giving the Liberals a fourth term will not change any of that.
Carney puts himself first. Conservatives will put Canada first. Putting Canada first means cutting bureaucracy and taxes. It means passing a big, beautiful Bring It Home Tax Cut, lowering tax rates on work, investment, energy and home building. It means axing the carbon tax for real, for good, for everyone, forever. It means repealing the Liberal No-New Pipelines Law, C-69, and instead granting rapid permission to our companies to build more pipelines, more natural gas exports, more data centers, mines and other natural resources to bring home powerful paycheques and production to our people. We need an East-West pipeline and we need to say it in both French and English.
We need more interprovincial trade. We need to unleash our free enterprise system to reverse the helplessness that the Liberals have caused over the last 10 years of tax and keep-it-in-the-ground extremism.
More than anything, we need to bring back the Canadian promise. A country where we trade with each other, produce our own resources, build homes for our people, protect our weak and vulnerable while standing up to the Americans abroad.
The Canadian promise is that anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. That hard work gets you a great life in a beautiful home on a safe street, protected by solid borders and brave troops under a proud flag Canada. Let’s bring it home.