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Pierre Poilievre: What I Want to Build (and Break) To Fix Canada

Apr 13, 2025 1h 21m 20 insights
Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, reveals a roadmap for restoring opportunity and unity across the country. From unleashing innovation by cutting red tape, to reigniting upward mobility and building a powerhouse economy, Poilievre’s message goes beyond borders. If you care about restoring opportunity, strengthening democracy, and securing a brighter future for North America, listen closely—Canada’s solutions might just inspire America’s renewal. TRANSCRIPT EN: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast-transcripts/pierre-poilievre-223/ FR: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast-transcripts/pierre-poilievre-223-francaise/
Actionable Insights

1. Unleash Enterprise & Investment

Implement policies to make Canada the fastest place in the OECD to get building permits, cut taxes on investment, energy, work, and home building, and repeal development-stifling laws like C-69 and C-48 to attract capital and foster economic growth.

2. Restore the Canadian Promise

Unite people around the idea that anyone can achieve something in Canada through hard work and community participation, moving away from identity politics and judging individuals on their character and conduct rather than group origins.

3. Balance Budgets with Discipline

Enact a hard dollar-for-dollar law requiring any new spending to be matched by equal savings, reduce bureaucracy through attrition, cut consultant spending, reduce foreign aid, and stop corporate grants to curb inflation and protect the buying power of working-class people.

4. Combat Crime with Tougher Laws

Repeal ‘catch and release’ laws (C-75), eliminate house arrest for serious offenses (C5), reintroduce mandatory jail time for serious crimes, and implement a ’three-strikes-you’re-out’ law for violent offenders to ensure jail, not bail, and earned release.

5. Revolutionize Healthcare Access

Preserve healthcare funding increases while implementing a national licensing test for 20,000 immigrant doctors and 32,000 immigrant nurses to quickly integrate them into the system, and speed up drug approval by recognizing treatments from other advanced jurisdictions.

6. Reduce Bureaucratic Red Tape

Cut 25% of existing regulations and implement a ’two for one’ rule for new regulations, overseen by the auditor general, to streamline processes and reduce compliance costs for businesses and individuals.

7. Boost Natural Resource Development

Unlock Canada’s resource potential by making it the fastest place to get permits, rewarding First Nations with a stake in royalty revenue, and training 350,000 young people for high-paying trades jobs to drive economic prosperity.

8. Implement Canada First Reinvestment Tax Cut

Introduce zero capital gains tax when profits are reinvested in Canada (e.g., building homes, opening businesses, buying equipment) to incentivize domestic investment and repatriate capital from abroad.

9. Create Shovel-Ready Zones

Establish pre-approved zones with all environmental research and compliance standards published upfront, offering legally binding permits to eliminate risk and dramatically speed up major project approvals for investors.

10. Strengthen Media Independence

Repeal censorship laws like C-11 and end government funding and subsidies to media outlets to ensure a free, diverse, and independent press that can hold politicians accountable without perceived bias.

11. Address Addiction with Treatment

Treat 50,000 people suffering from addiction to break the cycle, emphasizing that treatment works and empowering recovered individuals to help others, thereby contributing to safer streets.

12. Incentivize Inter-Provincial Free Trade

Offer provincial governments a share of federal revenue boosts that result from them removing internal trade barriers, such as harmonizing trucking regulations, to foster a more integrated national economy.

13. Modernize Military & Cyber Defense

Invest heavily in AI, advanced robotics, drone technology, and cyber capabilities to defend against future threats, and use military training to equip young people with high-tech skills for civilian jobs, creating a technological springboard for the economy.

14. Promote Canadian Pride & Entrepreneurship

Celebrate Canadian successes, tell inspiring stories of national heroes and entrepreneurs, and encourage a mentality of striving for gold rather than bronze, to foster a shared sense of accomplishment and national unity.

15. Ensure AI Accountability & Transparency

Ban and criminalize the unapproved use of AI-generated intimate images, strengthen protections for children online, and mandate transparency for all government rules and instructions given to AI companies to prevent abuse of power and allow public scrutiny.

16. Smart Climate Action & Economic Growth

Avoid carbon leakage by not over-taxing Canadian industries, which can lead to production offshoring to more polluting jurisdictions. Instead, offer tax breaks for low-emitting Canadian industries to repatriate production and reduce global emissions while growing the economy.

17. Retaliate & Renegotiate Tariffs

Retaliate against US tariffs to create a deterrent, then propose a temporary tariff freeze (100-120 days) to quickly renegotiate KUSMA, seeking a permanent end to tariffs and offering to strengthen shared continental defense with Canadian military investment.

18. Reduce US Economic Dependence

Build pipelines to diversify oil and gas exports beyond the US, develop LNG liquefaction plants to sell gas to Europe and Asia, and create a national energy corridor with pre-approved projects to enhance Canada’s energy independence and global market access.

19. Lower Income Taxes

Commit to lowering income tax by 15% for the average worker and senior, with a goal to reduce them further as the country’s financial situation improves, to reward hard work and boost individual prosperity.

20. Ensure Government Transparency

Demand transparency in all government actions and regulations, especially concerning new technologies like AI, to allow the public to scrutinize decisions and hold the government accountable at the ballot box if policies are used for political agendas rather than public interest.