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Pierre Poilievre

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Poilievre seeks to lower fuel costs, repeal the clean fuel standard, and reverse government deficits he claims add $40,000 in debt per family. He critiques the Liberal government by suggesting leaders operate with self-serving intentions, famously stating that spending benefits “to his banker friends.” He often frames his arguments around the government’s failures.Written by AI from their statements. Updated .

Average grade
A–
89 / 100 over 262 statements
Signal 80 / 100
Relevance 73 / 100
Respect 98 / 100
Clarity 96 / 100
Loses points more than most for Claiming to know a person’s bad motives.6.5 times as often as most members.What the tags mean ×6.5 Mocking a person instead of answering their argument.6.1 times as often as most members.What the tags mean ×6.1 Praise, blame or attack with no claim, reason or ask in it.1.7 times as often as most members.What the tags mean ×1.7 Loses points less than most for A story that illustrates instead of making a point.Less often than most members.What the tags mean Thanks and tributes.Less often than most members.What the tags mean Staying near the subject without addressing the matter at hand: what was asked, or what the bill, motion or speech is about.Less often than most members.What the tags mean Averaged over the 262 of 275 statements graded so far.

Statements 275

Oral Questions ·

Finance

“The Prime Minister is spending too much money and driving up the deficit to 65 billion dollars. This debt will cost every Canadian family 3,400 dollars in interest. I want to know if he will ever stop spending.”

  • A repeated line

    “The Prime Minister is just another Liberal.”

    Said 22 times by 14 members since April 23.

    Every time it was said
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, more costs, more taxes, more debt, more money on the credit card: This Prime Minister is just another Liberal. He has doubled Justin Trudeau’s $31‑billion deficit to $65 billion, with $27 billion in new spending this year alone. Now he is forcing Canadians to pay $3,400 per family in interest on the debt. Is there any limit on the Liberal credit card?

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Finance

“The Liberals are spending tens of billions of dollars on consultants, corporate welfare, and useless projects. This spending causes inflation. I want the government to stop spending this money.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, I am glad he asked, because I have some direct answers. This is how to answer a question. What is inflationary spending? It is $90 billion for the wasteful Alto project; $1 billion for a gun grab that the public safety minister admits will not stop crime; $20 billion, which is double, for consultants; a 7% increase in the spending on the national bureaucracy; over $1 billion in handouts to fake and phony refugees; a 100% increase in spending on corporate welfare. It is all inflationary spending. Will the Liberals stop putting it on the national credit card and get rid of it instead?

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“The Prime Minister's economic choices have made food and housing too expensive and given Canada high debt and unemployment. He already has a 31-billion-dollar deficit this year. Will he borrow even more money tomorrow?”

  • A repeated line

    “The highest housing costs and the second-highest unemployment in the G7.”

    Said 15 times by 12 members since April 27.

    Every time it was said
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister cannot answer questions in the House of Commons because he has been wrong on every single major economic issue of our time, and the results are what Canadians are paying for now: more costs, more debt, more taxes and more of the same. In fact, the Prime Minister has given Canada the worst food inflation in the G7, the worst household debt in the G7, the worst housing costs in the G7, and the second-highest unemployment in the G7. Tomorrow, he intends to put it all on the national credit card. Trudeau had a $31-billion deficit left over for this year. Will the Prime Minister break through that limit and put that on the national credit card as well?

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“The Prime Minister wants to borrow $25 billion for a new fund after already doubling the national debt. Will he borrow even more money tomorrow?”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, we need to actually have wealth for a sovereign wealth fund. What the Liberal Prime Minister is proposing to do is use the credit card in order to put $25 billion into a Liberal slush fund. This is after the Liberal government doubled the debt and gave us the worst inflation in 40 years. The Prime Minister is spending more: more taxes, more costs, more of the same. Will he put it all on the nation’s credit card again tomorrow?

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“I asked the Prime Minister a question. He is avoiding it, and someone else is answering instead.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, the question was for the Prime Minister, who is again in hiding and, instead, what we got is a man talking about a sovereign— Some hon. members: Oh, oh!

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“The Liberals doubled Canada's debt, housing costs, and food bank visits. Now the new Prime Minister is spending even more. I want to know if he will keep this year's deficit under $31 billion, or spend more than that.”

  • A repeated line

    “The Prime Minister is just another Liberal.”

    Said 22 times by 14 members since April 23.

    Every time it was said
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, more debt, more costs, more taxes. The Prime Minister is just another Liberal. The Liberal government doubled the debt, doubled housing costs and doubled food bank lineups. The previous prime minister left behind an outrageous $31-billion deficit for this fiscal year. Since that time, the new Liberal Prime Minister has been spending at even higher rates and putting it on the national credit card. That means the bankers make more and Canadian workers and seniors keep less. Will the Prime Minister at least cap the deficit at Trudeau’s $31 billion or will he break through that limit and put it on the credit card?

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“The Prime Minister is spending too much borrowed money, which drives up taxes and the cost of living. Will he cut the deficit tomorrow, or will he borrow even more?”

  • Opposition question in Question Period

    Signal 43 of 100

    Much of this statement went to praise, blame, greetings, routine procedure or general stories rather than reasons, requests or specific points.

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  • A repeated line

    “The Prime Minister is just another Liberal.”

    Said 22 times by 14 members since April 23.

    Every time it was said
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, it is a sovereign wealth fund with no wealth. There is no wealth to put into it. It is really more of a debt fund. It is a credit card budget: more debt, more costs, more inflation, more taxes, more of the same. This Prime Minister is just another Liberal. He inherited a jaw-dropping $31‑billion deficit from Justin Trudeau, but since then, he has added $90 billion in inflationary spending. Tomorrow, will he reduce the deficit or will he put all that on the national credit card and drive up the cost of living even more?

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“The Prime Minister is spending too much and causing high costs. Many seniors in Quebec worry they cannot afford retirement or must go back to work. Will the Prime Minister cut his spending deficits?”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, according to Le Journal de Montréal, while this Liberal Prime Minister continues to pay the nation’s bills with a credit card, half of Quebeckers aged 50 and older are worried they will not have enough money for retirement. What is more, twice as many Quebeckers now have to go back to work during retirement just to make ends meet. After 10 years of inflationary deficits and taxes, the Prime Minister is increasing spending even further. Is he going to reduce these inflationary deficits, or is he going to charge it to seniors’ credit cards?

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Oral Questions ·

Finance

“The Prime Minister almost doubled the deficit to $80 billion and is causing inflation. Will he learn from his mistakes and reverse the deficit?”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, from imaginary conversations with the minister to illusions from a Prime Minister who hides under his desk rather than being accountable in the House of Commons, one could cut through the Liberal arrogance with a knife. What we cannot cut is the Liberal deficit. Amazingly, Justin Trudeau left behind a $40-billion deficit. We thought it could not get worse, but along came the current Liberal Prime Minister, and he nearly doubled it to $80 billion. Just like he caused inflation when he printed money in Great Britain, he is causing inflation now. Will the Prime Minister, who has been wrong about every single economic issue, learn from his mistakes and reverse the deficit?

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The Economy

“The Prime Minister will not answer questions today because of his record. Under him, the deficit doubled, food prices rose faster than in other G7 nations, housing costs doubled, and 2.2 million people used food banks.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, we now understand why the Liberal Prime Minister is fleeing from questions today, refusing to face accountability. If doubling the deficit to the worst in Canadian history outside COVID means being just another Liberal, he is just another Liberal. If giving Canadians the worst food price inflation in the G7 means being just another Liberal, he is just another Liberal. If doubling housing costs so an entire generation cannot afford homes means being just another Liberal, he is just another Liberal. If sending 2.2 million people to a food bank means being just another Liberal, he is just another Liberal. Is that not why the “just another Liberal” will not stand in the House—

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Oral Questions ·

Finance

“The Prime Minister is spending too much money and created a record-high deficit. Will he cut waste and spending to lower it?”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister hides under his desk instead of answering questions, because whether it is today when he was snarling at a female journalist for simply asking a question, or in the House of Commons where he hides from those same questions, he knows that as soon as he faces a tough question, it exposes the thinly veiled illusion and that the reality is that he is just another Liberal. He has doubled Justin Trudeau’s deficit, the biggest deficit in Canadian history outside Covid, because of massive increases in spending. Will the Prime Minister cut back on the bureaucracy, the waste and the tax havens to bring down his out-of-control deficit for Canada?

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Oral Questions ·

Taxation

“The Prime Minister is making fuel too expensive with taxes like the carbon tax and the GST. I want him to remove all taxes on fuel for the whole year.”

  • A repeated line

    “The Prime Minister is just another Liberal.”

    Said 22 times by 14 members since April 23.

    Every time it was said
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, with the Liberal Prime Minister, it is more cost, more crime and more corruption, more of the same. That is because, despite the illusions, he is just another Liberal. This is true with gas taxes. Some hon. members: Oh, oh! Hon. Pierre Poilievre: Mr. Speaker, yes, they are applauding. The Prime Minister is just another Liberal. He is keeping two-thirds of the gas tax in place while Canadians get ripped off at the pump with the carbon tax, which he calls the clean fuel standard, and the GST at 15¢ a litre. Will the Prime Minister stop gouging Canadians at the pump and get rid of all taxes for all the year, or is he just another Liberal?

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Oral Questions ·

Finance

In response to a question from Pierre Poilievre

“The Prime Minister doubled the deficit from 40 billion dollars to almost 80 billion dollars. I want him to cut government waste and corporate handouts to lower the deficit.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, the reason the Prime Minister hates answering real questions is that it breaks the illusion. Although he would have us believe otherwise, he doubled the deficit Justin Trudeau left us. It is unbelievable. Trudeau left behind a $40‑billion deficit. The deficit is now almost $80 billion. Will he cut back on the bureaucracy, the corporate welfare, the tax havens and other waste to bring down his out-of-control deficit?

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“I want the Prime Minister to answer my question. He is in Ottawa today, but he is refusing to answer.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, my question was for the Prime Minister, who is in Ottawa today but is hiding under the desk. He does not want to answer—

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Oral Questions ·

Taxation

“The Prime Minister is making fuel too expensive with the carbon tax, the fuel standard, and the GST. I want him to stop taxing Canadians at the pump.”
Official Hansard

Mr. Speaker, with this Liberal Prime Minister, it is more cost, more crime, more corruption, more of the same. Despite the illusions, he is just another Liberal. For example, he is keeping two-thirds of the gas tax in place while Canadians are getting ripped off at the pump. There is the new carbon tax, which he now calls the clean fuel standard, and there is the GST. Both cost 15¢ a litre. Will the Prime Minister stop taxing Canadians at the pumps, or is he just another Liberal?

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