Canadian Conservative Leader Munches on Apple While Dismantling Reporter Comparing Him to Trump: ‘What Are You Talking About?’

Isaac SchorrOct 17th, 2023, 2:59 pm
 

The leader of Canada’s Conservative Party calmly dismantled a reporter insistent on comparing him to former U.S. President Donald Trump in an interview that’s gone viral online.

Pierre Poilievre, who’s currently the frontrunner to be the next Canadian prime minister, was munching on an apple when a reporter asserted that “in terms of your sort of strategy currently, you’re obviously taking the populist pathway –”

“What does that mean?” interjected Poilievre.

The exchange continued from there:

REPORTER: Well, appealing to people’s more emotional levels I would guess, I mean certainly you —

POILIEVRE: What do you mean by that, give me an example?

REPORTER: Certainly you tap very strong ideological language quite frequently.

POILIEVRE: Like what?

REPORTER: Left-wing this and that right-wing, I mean that type of ideological —

POILIEVRE: I almost never talk about, I never really talk about left or right. I don’t really believe in that.

REPORTER: Okay, a lot of people would say you’re simply taking a page out of the Donald Trump book.

POILIEVRE: A lot of people? Like which people would say that?

REPORTER: Well, I’m sure a great many Canadians, but —

POILIEVRE: Like who?

REPORTER: I don’t know who, but —

POILIEVRE: Well you’re the one who asked the question, so you must know somebody.

REPORTER: Okay, I’m sure there are some out there but anyways, the point of this question is: Why should Canadians trust you with their vote given, you know, not just the sort of ideological inclination in terms of taking the page out of Donald Trump’s book, but also-

POILIEVRE: What are you talking about? What page? What page? Can you give me a page? Give me the page? You keep saying that.

REPORTER: In terms of turning things quite dramatically in terms of Trudeau and the left-wing and all of this. You make — it’s quite a play that you make on it. So I’m just wondering.

POILIEVRE: I don’t know what your question is.

REPORTER: So forget that, why should Canadians trust you with their vote?

POILIEVRE: Common sense. Common sense for a change. We’re gonna make common sense common in this country. We don’t have any common sense in the current government. You know, the guy prints 600 billion dollars, grows our money supply by 32% in three years — that’s growing the money eight times faster than the economy — no wonder we have the worst inflation in four decades. I’m gonna cap spending, cut waste so that we can balance the budget, bring down inflation and interest rates. You wanna be able to pay your mortgage again? You wanna be able to afford rent? Then you have to vote for Pierre Poilievre because I am the only one with a common sense plan that will bring back the buying power of your paycheck.

An Ipsos poll from last showed Poilievre’s Conservatives ahead of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals 39%-30%.

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