Trudeau tells Poilievre to ‘wake up,’ urges Liberal convention to reject populism
Canadians chose hope over fear and anger in 2015 and they will be faced with that choice again the next time they go to the polls, Prime Ministersaid Thursday as he delivered an opening night keynote speech to Liberal faithful at the party’s policy convention in Ottawa.
Conservatives, he said, call Liberals “too woke” for investing in people, in economic growth, in families and in climate change.Story continues below advertisementThen he launched into a list of Conservative actions the Liberals are clearly planning to use as ammunition. Poilievre’s advice last year to invest in cryptocurrencies to “opt out of inflation” just before the market for many of the biggest crypto companies flopped.
He also heavily promoted the Liberals’ child tax benefit increase that helped pull thousands of Canadian children out of poverty, and the recent national child-care program to reduce fees to as little as $10 a day. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waves as he concludes his keynote address at the 2023 Liberal National Convention in Ottawa, on Thursday, May 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang.
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