At a caucus meeting, Poilivre told his MPs a Conservative government would cap spending, reduce waste and \u0027fire high\u002Dpriced consultants.\u0027
That was the challenge Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre lobbed at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his speech to his party’s caucus as it reconvenes in Ottawa for the return of Parliament next week.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
He reiterated his claim that “everything feels broken” in Canada that earned him a rebuke from the prime minister in a speech last fall. “If you’re not responsible for any of these things. If you can’t do anything about it, then why don’t you get out of the way and let someone lead who can,” he added, earning himself a standing ovation from his caucus.
But he stopped short of saying how he would do any of that, nor what he would do to cap spending or what “waste” he was referring to that needed to end. “Our universal public system has long been a model to the world and Canadians rightly take enormous pride in it. But what Canadians are experiencing right now is simply not living up to that promise. And we’re going to change that,” he promised.Article content
“When you twist the facts or make things up for political gain, that’s not responsible leadership. Recent studies show the misinformation on COVID has cost hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of lives. Peddling misinformation and disinformation is serious, and devastating consequences,” he said of the Conservative leader.
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