Miranda Blacky / 07 January 2025 / Categories: People, World Leaders, Politicians

Pierre Poilievre

Conservative Leader Canada

I grew up in Montreal Canada so following the announcement about Justin Trudeau resignation and speculation about who will become the new leader of The Liberal Party I wanted to introduce you to Pierre Poilievre. He’s a member of the Canadian parliament and someone you all probably haven’t heard of, he’s been a Canadian M.P. since 2004 and been the leader of the Conservative Party; effectively Trudeau’s opposition since 2022.

I am not political. I think all politicians lie, they have to, and they all spin, they have to; which is why I rarely vote. I think you have to watch someone over a long period, really listen to what they say; listen for inconsistencies and get to know someone to discover more about their motives; whether the drive to do a difficult job like running a country comes from a deep genuine motive for things to be better for everybody (very rare) or someone who fundamentally is very ambitious and is attracted to all the power and treats that kind of job brings and the rewards afterwards that go on and on exponentially whether you have done a good job or not.

I don’t know Pierre Poilievre; nor have I ever met him in my political work capacity or otherwise. So I have no idea whether my good opinion of him is correct or not.

For me he talks a lot more common sense than anyone else.

I searched online for a royalty free image of Mr. Poilievre and couldn’t find one so until he gives us permission to use his picture we have to be content with the Canadian flag for copyright infringement purposes.

My motivation to write was to share a little story/explanation from Pierre Poilievre, about government spending and why it’s the road to nowhere. This is not an exact quote but the gist of what he said was this,

There are three ways for governments to get money to run their country better and help the people living there; tax the people; borrow more money or print more money. The problems with borrowing more money when economic growth is lagging it takes any economy backwards.

Obviously Mr. Poilievre explains printing more money appears the easiest option, he goes on to say if our economy in Canada has 10 apples and the money in circulation is $10 the value of each apple is $1.

We’re broke so we go ahead and print 10 more dollars so we have double the spending power but look what’s happened to the value of the apples, they are now $2 a piece and that is what is called inflation.

The only way governments can tax less is to cut government spending, period.