JUST LIKE TRUMP, POILIEVRE IS DANGEROUS FOR CANADA
Pierre Poilievre wants to bring Trump’s toxic brand of politics to Canada.
If he wins the next election, he’s made no secret of his plans to gut public services, cut support for everyday people, and undo our hard-won climate progress.
Pulling from Trump’s playbook, Poilievre is already doing everything in his power to divide us along the lines of race, class, and gender — all to keep us distracted while he rolls out his austerity agenda to the benefit of his billionaire friends.
Poilievre might try to hide his true agenda behind his persona as a “hero of the working class,” but for this career politician, the proof is in the pudding.
Read on to find out more about Pierre Poilievre’s stances and voting record on the issues that matter to working people: the wealth tax, affordable housing, healthcare, childcare, climate change, and human rights.
Poilievre is against the working class but for the rich
Despite claims that he is “for the working people,” his voting record, his agenda, and his ties to the wealthy elite tell the true story.
- Just like Trump, Poilievre’s policies will enrich the top 1% and make life harder for everyday people.
- Poilievre wants to cut back support for the working class.
- He has a long history of voting for anti-union bills, and he doesn’t support workers when it matters most.
- Poilievre and the Conservatives aren’t trusted by workers and the organizations who represent them, like the Canadian Labour Congress.
- Just like Trump, Poilievre’s inner circle is made up of wealthy corporate lobbyists.
- Real estate executives have been among the top donors to Poilievre’s Conservatives.
- He has the full support of Canadian tech billionaires — and it’s mutual.
- Canadian millionaire and business mogul Kevin O’Leary supports Poilievre.
- He meets with oil and gas lobbyists regularly — despite publicly denouncing them.
- He is close with many wealthy elite— since becoming leader in 2022, Poilievre has shown up at more than 50 fundraisers in private venues like mansions.
- Poilievre would rig the system for the rich and gut the public services people rely on.
- Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and Trump’s right-hand man has endorsed Pierre Poilievre.
Poilievre will cater to corporate landlords and abandon affordable housing
Poilievre’s answer to the housing crisis would put profit before people and abandon workers and communities.
- Just like Trump, Poilievre wants to cut funding for affordable housing.
- As Stephen Harper’s Housing Minister, Poilievre allowed 800,000 affordable rental units to be sold off to corporate landlords and developers.
- Under his watch as Harper’s Housing Minister, housing prices shot up 70%.
- Poilievre voted against initiatives to make housing affordable and has vowed to cut the Housing Accelerator Fund.
- Poilievre’s housing solutions are threadbare, and many agree they won’t address the housing crisis.
- Just like Trump, Poilievre wants to spread division by scapegoating immigrants for the housing crisis.
Poilievre will gut public services + programs
Instead of building up our social safety net to ensure people are taken care of, Poilievre would threaten access to services and programs that communities rely on.
- Poilievre wants to gut public healthcare, just like Trump.
- Just like Trump, Poilievre has made public his disdain for public media, and has promised to defund the CBC.
- Poilievre has a terrible record on support for families, children and communities.
- Poilievre voted against strengthening public pensions and voted to raise your retirement age to 67.
- Just like Trump, Poilievre plans to attack public sector employees.
Poilievre stands for division and exclusion
Poilievre would roll over for bullies like Trump instead of standing up for us. He has pulled directly from Trump’s playbook in his attacks against immigrants, queer and trans people, and abortion rights — and he has proven ties to the far right both here and south of the border.
- Poilievre has many ties to right-wing extremists on both sides of the border.
- He joined a fundraiser to get a far-right conservative book in Alberta schools, has been seen supporting Dialogon extremists, and was endorsed by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
- Just like Trump, Poilievre threatens a woman’s right to choose an abortion.
- Poilievre voted for a law that would give the pro-life movement grounds to argue fetal rights instead of focusing on the rights of the mother, and his caucus introduced a petition to limit access to abortion.
- He has a shoddy history of supporting Indigenous reconciliation, and he voted against aligning Canadian laws with UNDRIP.
- He has vowed to cut foreign aid, which would jeopardize the global commitments Canada has made to work for peace and human rights.
- Poilievre has supported attacks on queer and trans communities and parrots far-right ideology on gender and sexuality.
Poilievre will drag Canada backward on climate
Pierre Poilivre will lock us into an outdated fossil fuel economy while the rest of the world moves towards secure renewable energy.
- In his 20 years as an MP, Poilievre has voted against protecting the environment over 400 times. Just like Trump, Poilievre has weakened the rules that protect our forests and oceans.
- Poilievre would sacrifice our future to line Big Oil’s pockets.
- He has many ties to the oil and gas sector.
- From scrapping investments for electric cars to reversing a cap on pollution— his actions will hold us back while the rest of the world moves forward.
It’s time to raise the bar
All of us — no matter where we come from or how much we make — should be able to put food on the table and afford a good place to call home. But right now, that’s not our reality.
If Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives win the next election, the rich will get richer and the rest of us will pay.
This is our chance to fight for the version of Canada that we want to live in: one in which every person in Canada has a safe, affordable place to call home; where we take the climate crisis seriously and build a self-reliant, job-rich clean energy economy, and bring Canada’s billionaire class to heel.
A better world is possible — together, we can rebuild our democracy and ensure our politicians work for us.