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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre reacts to new PM and Federal Cabinet
Mark Carney’s Fourth Liberal Term Will Be Just Like Justin’s
The following is a transcript of the Hon. Pierre Poilievre’s remarks from March 14th, 2025. These remarks have been edited for length. Check against delivery.
I begin by congratulating Justin Trudeau’s economic advisor, Mark Carney, on becoming Prime Minister, only 3 months after he moved his company headquarters out of Canada to New York.
Today, Liberals are trying to trick Canadians into electing them to a fourth term in power with a cabinet that is 87% the same as Trudeau’s cabinet.
100% of this Liberal cabinet served as Trudeau MPs. The same Liberal MPs who voted to hike the carbon tax, double the debt, double food bank line ups and double housing costs. The same Liberals all supported blocking pipelines, LNG plants, and passing the anti-energy law C-69 that has made Canada even more reliant on the United States.
Steven Guilbeault, the radical anti-development activist twice arrested for climbing on buildings and homes to protest our resource sector and who calls himself a socialist, has been promoted to minister responsible for Parks and Nature and minister for Quebec–meaning nothing will get built.
Meanwhile, all of Trudeau’s inner circle—Gerald Butts and Tom Pitfield—are now Carney’s top advisors. His chief of staff is a former Trudeau minister forced to resign for lying about moving Paul Bernardo out of a maximum security prison.
Mark Carney thinks Canadians are stupid. That with a little bit of cosmetic surgery, the Liberals will be able to disguise who they are and make people forget what they did for 10 years. It is the same Liberal gang, with the same Liberal agenda, the same Liberal results and the same Liberal promises as the last ten years, only now they are seeking a 4th term in power.
Carbon Tax Carney also tried the same Carbon Tax Con-job I predicted weeks ago he would do. He announced he will hide the tax for the next two months until after the election is over, when he will bring back a bigger “shadow carbon tax” without any rebate. We know this because for the last 5 years, Carney has advised Trudeau to hike the tax. And recently, he said his new tax would hit steel, cars and other things Canadians need.
It is sneaky.
But it will not work.
Canadians know that over 10 years, the Trudeau-Carney Liberals doubled the debt, doubled housing costs and doubled foodbank line ups. They’ve made us weak facing the Americans.
Giving the Liberals a fourth term will not change any of that.
If you cannot afford food a home after three terms of these Liberals, that will not change with a fourth Liberal term.
If you are worried Canada is drowning in debt and taxes after three terms of these Liberals, that will not change with a fourth Liberal term.
If you are afraid of crime and chaos after three terms of Liberals, it will not change with a fourth term of Liberals.
If you are a senior choosing between heating and eating after 3 Liberal terms, there will not be any change with a fourth Liberal term.
If you are worried that Canada can’t get anything built and is more reliant on the U.S. than ever before, there will not be any change with a fourth Liberal term.
And it certainly won’t change with a conflicted Prime Minister who already sold-out Canada to move its headquarters to the United States only days after Trump threatened tariffs to take our jobs.
Carney puts himself first. Conservatives will put Canada first.
Putting Canada first means cutting bureaucracy and taxes. It means confronting President Trump to his face. Hitting back with counter tariffs. But it also means making Canada stronger at home. We will pass a massive Bring it Home Tax Cut on work, investment, energy, homebuilding and making stuff in Canada. We will reward your hard work with an income tax cut, so you bring home more of each dollar you earn.
We will cut bureaucracy, taxes and debt. We will take the GST off new homes to save you up to $50,000 & incentivize municipalities to speed up permits, free up land and cut development charges. We will axe the carbon tax for everyone forever to bring down energy costs for families and businesses.
We will repeal the Liberal No-New Pipelines Law C-69, and instead grant 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 paychecks and production to our people.
We will carry out the biggest crackdown on crime, the borders and drugs. We will be self-reliant, sovereign and stand on our own feet. To stand up to the Americans. And stand up for ourselves.
We will reward work, unleash entrepreneurs, harvest our resources, make our own goods, trade with each other, build homes for our youth, rebuild our borders and military, honour history and raise our flag.
And to restore Canada’s promise: where hard work gets you a great life in a beautiful house on a safe street protected by brave troops under a proud flag. In Canada.
Let’s bring it home.
From the Fraser Institute
After accounting for backup, energy storage and associated indirect costs—estimated solar power costs skyrocket from US$36 per megawatt hour (MWh) to as high as US$1,548, and wind generation costs increase from US$40 to up to US$504 per MWh.
At a recent energy conference in Houston, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Trump administration will end the Biden administration’s “irrational, quasi-religious policies on climate change that imposed endless sacrifices on our citizens.” He added that “Natural gas is responsible for 43 per cent of U.S. electricity production,” and beyond the obvious scale and cost problems, there’s “simply no physical way that wind, solar and batteries could replace the myriad uses of natural gas.”
In other words, as a federal election looms, once again the United States is diverging from Canada when it comes to energy policy.
Indeed, wind power is particularly unattractive to Wright because of its “incredibly high prices,” “incredibly huge investment” and “large footprint on the local communities,” which make it unattractive to people living nearby. Globally, Wright observes, “Natural gas currently supplies 25 per cent of raw energy globally, before it is converted into electricity or some other use. Wind and solar only supply about 3 per cent.”
And he’s right. Renewables are likely unable, physically or economically, to replace natural gas power production to meet current or future needs for affordable, abundant and reliable energy.
In a recent study published by the Fraser Institute, for example, we observed that meeting Canada’s predicted electricity demand through 2050 using only wind power (with natural gas discouraged under current Canadian climate policies) would require the construction of approximately 575 wind-power installations, each the size of Quebec’s Seigneurie de Beaupré wind farm, over 25 years. However, with a construction timeline of two years per project, this would equate to 1,150 construction years. This would also require more than one million hectares of land—an area nearly 14.5 times the size of Calgary.
Solar power did not fare much better. According to the study, to meet Canada’s predicted electricity demand through 2050 with solar-power generation would require the construction of 840 solar-power generation stations the size of Alberta’s Travers Solar Project. At a two-year construction time per facility, this adds up to 1,680 construction years to accomplish.
And at what cost? While proponents often claim that wind and solar sources are cheaper than fossil fuels, they ignore the costs of maintaining backup power to counter the unreliability of wind and solar power generation. A recent study published in Energy, a peer-reviewed energy and engineering journal, found that—after accounting for backup, energy storage and associated indirect costs—estimated solar power costs skyrocket from US$36 per megawatt hour (MWh) to as high as US$1,548, and wind generation costs increase from US$40 to up to US$504 per MWh.
The outlook for Canada’s switch to renewables is also dire. TD Bank estimated that replacing existing gas generators with renewables (such as solar and wind) in Ontario could increase average electricity costs by 20 per cent by 2035 (compared to 2021 costs). In Alberta, electricity prices would increase by up to 66 per cent by 2035 compared to a scenario without changes.
Under Canada’s current greenhouse gas (GHG) regulatory regime, natural gas is heavily disfavoured as a potential fuel for electricity production. The Trudeau government’s Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) would begin curtailing the use of natural gas beginning in 2035, leading largely to a cessation of natural gas power generation by 2050. Under CER and Ottawa’s “net-zero 2050” GHG emission framework, Canada will be wedded to a quixotic mission to displace affordable reliable natural gas power-generation with expensive unreliable renewables that are likely unable to meet expected future electricity demand.
With a federal election looming, Canada’s policymakers should pay attention to new U.S. energy policy on natural gas, and pull back from our headlong rush into renewable power. To avoid calamity, the next federal government should scrap the Trudeau-era CER and reconsider the entire “net-zero 2050” agenda.
Kenneth P. Green
Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute
From LifeSiteNews
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre warned, ‘Carbon Tax Carney is pausing the carbon tax until after the election when he no longer needs your vote but still needs your money.’
Mark Carney, as his first move as Prime Minister of Canada, has dropped the infamous carbon tax.
Moments after his March 14 swearing in, Prime Minister Carney signed legislation to reduce the consumer carbon tax rate on Canadians to zero, essentially removing it from April 1.
“This will make a difference to hard-pressed Canadians, but it is part of a much bigger set of measures that this government is taking to ensure that we fight against climate change, that our companies are competitive, and the country moves forward,” Carney told media in the cabinet meeting room.
“Based on the discussion we’ve had and consistent with a promise that I made, and others supported, during the [Liberal Party] leadership campaign, we will be eliminating the Canada fuel charge, the consumer fuel charge, immediately,” he continued.
However, it is important to note that Carney did not scrap the carbon tax legislation: he just reduced it to zero. This means it could come back at any time.
Furthermore, while Carney has dropped the consumer carbon tax, he has previously revealed that he wishes to implement a corporation carbon tax, the effects of which many argued would trickle down to all Canadians.
First implemented in 2019, the carbon tax was advertised as a way to reduce emissions. However, Liberals have since admitted that the carbon tax has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by only one percent.
The tax is wildly unpopular and blamed for the rising cost of living throughout Canada. Currently, Canadians living in provinces under the federal carbon pricing scheme pay $80 per tonne.
Notably, Carney’s decision to drop the unpopular carbon tax comes just weeks before he is expected to call a federal election.
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre responded to Carney’s move by saying, “Carbon Tax Carney is pausing the carbon tax until after the election when he no longer needs your vote but still needs your money.”
“He’s flip-flopping on his beliefs to trick Canadians into a 4th Liberal government,” he stated on an X post. “If Carney wins, Canada loses.”
Indeed, Carney’s decision also appears to be contrary to his own ideology, as he recently argued that the carbon tax was too low. He also rebuked Trudeau for exempting home heating oil from the carbon tax in 2023.
Furthermore, although Carney has assured Canadians that while he is no longer on the board of the World Economic Forum, he has been a longtime supporter of the globalist agenda, including the United Nations’ energy regulations. In January 2023, he attended the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Carney uses his social media to advocate for achieving net-zero energy goals.
“The net-zero revolution is becoming a driver of country competitiveness, job creation & growth,” he posted on X earlier in November. “In the future, great powers will be green powers — and Canada can be a great power.”
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