Thursday, October 29, 2026

Why Conservatives Want Carney in Front of the Finance Committee?

Why Conservatives Want Carney in Front of the Finance Committee? 

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pouJ-4FwdpQ

 


 Conservative MP Sandra Cobena holds a news conference on Parliament Hill on October 27, 2026, reacting to a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), which found that the federal government will not meet its self-defined fiscal anchors on debt and that the debt-to-GDP ratio is rising. Cobena argues the government is on track to add $733 billion in debt over five years, that new accounting definitions move operating spending into capital investments, and that interest on the debt now costs about $6,000 per Canadian household. She also discusses her party's motion calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to appear before the House Finance Committee. The federal budget will be tabled next week.

 

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Good morning. I am here to talk about the most recent uh PBO report and our motion in the house today. So in the
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last election, the prime minister promised fiscal discipline. But the PBO has exposed that this that discipline is
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in fact non-existent with the fiscal anchors that the prime minister has chosen to use. If you remember in the last uh budget, the prime minister chose
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to make up new financial accounting definitions that would allow him to move operating expenses into capital investments and he dropped the fiscal
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anchor of debt to GDP. Coincidentally, at the same time when he is taking on staggering amount of debt [snorts] and
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will not be captured by this fiscal anchor and this is concerning of course because we see $733 billion over 5 years being taken on by this prime minister.
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The last prime minister took $700 billion on on debt over 10 years. But
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before that prime minister, all the prime ministers combined took about 700
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billion dollars. So you have one prime minister taking on 7333 billion of debt,
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an amount of debt that generations of prime ministers before him took on. And he's doing that in just 5 years. We are
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calling on the prime minister to show up to the finance committee and to answer questions for that. We have not seen any
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credible plan to repay that debt. That debt is currently costing Canadians about $6,000
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for per Canadian house household just to service. This is not to repay the debt because today interest is the the
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fastest growing expense. It's not healthcare. It's not defense. It is interest. And ultimately this debt and
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this interest must be paid back and it has to be paid back with dollars earned by and taken from hardworking Canadians.
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But we don't have a plan from the prime minister to repay this debt. the the my biggest fear is that in a week's uh time
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roughly when the prime minister tables his budget he will stand in the House of Commons and speak about fiscal prudence
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creating an illusion that our country is in fact better off but what we are seeing is that he is c calling uh debt
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uh hidden in crown corporations assets let's remember these these are called assets because uh of this idea that they
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will be this debt will be repaid. But we have seen for example Canada Post hasn't turned a profit since 2017 and has lost roughly uh $5 billion.
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So he's calling debt assets. He is calling operating expenses capital investments in the likes of $19 billion.
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And of course, he's not restoring the true fiscal anchor that every other serious country around the world uses, which is the debt to GDP ratio. This is
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uh quite concerning because of course we have a prime minister who is mortgaging our children's debt, our children's
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future rather, and with no credible plan to repay it. And so we're calling on the prime minister to show up to the finance committee to answer questions.
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Unfortunately, he does not show up uh to uh the House of Commons often. Uh uh 30
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30% roughly of times that he shows up and questions are not answered. We deserve answers. Canadians deserve
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answers. Uh the cost of running this government is increasing rapidly and it's putting many of the services that Canadians rely on at risk.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Pierre Poilievre Scathes Carney Govt, Calls For Alberta To 'Stay United & Fight'

Pierre Poilievre Scathes Carney Govt, Calls For Alberta To 'Stay United & Fight' 

Amid Separation Row            

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfe8YU80fGM

 

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Thank you very much, M. And thank you, Calgary. It is wonderful to be gathered here with all of you at Canada. Strong and free. I like the way that sounds.
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Strong and free. That's what we want for Alberta. That's what we want for Canada.
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In fact, over the last several months since this referendum was called, Conservatives under the leadership of a
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group called Conservatives for Canada, led by Dne Lloyd, have been campaigning, locking on thousands of doors. I've been
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to 28 different events. This is my third keynote address in a major center. We've raised money and pushed the message of a
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strong and free Alberta within a United Canada. That's what we believe in.
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Obviously, we're working to save you money, save your job, keep you safe, cap immigration, but our mission in all
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of these things is to put Canada first.
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And Monday, Albertans will be voting on a referendum to have another referendum
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on whether to separate from Canada. Now, their option is to do that or to vote to stay within the country, to continue to
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work for the promise of Canada, a more affordable, safe, and independent country here at home. But the referendum
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question itself really invites yet another question. What is it you're voting to potentially separate from?
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What does it mean to be a Canadian?
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Wilfrid Laurier was asked this question and he asked he was asked like what is the nationality of a country like
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Canada? He couldn't answer it the way many European countries might have done.
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They would have answered based on race, ethnicity, or sect. But we were already already mixed up in Canada. We had people from all over the place. We had
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the indigenous, the Englishmen, the Frenchmen, the Scots, the Irish, and countless others. And so he could not
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answer based on a sect. Instead, he said, "Canada is free, and freedom is
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its nationality." For individuals, Canada's freedom means the freedom to speak your mind, to practice your faith,
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to own property, to work hard, to earn the rewards. It means for entrepreneurs that they have the freedom to thrive in a free market. And it means that a
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province has the freedom to decide what it wants to do within its own backyard.
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Freedom and promise are really the two words that I felt the greatest growing up in Calgary, Alberta. I remember those
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early mornings. too early sometimes when my dad would drive me out to Okatokes for hockey practice and we'd see the sl
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sun slowly come up uh over the pink sky across the prairies see the mountain range my dad would have some country
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music rattling away on the radio and I just felt like that I had the freedom and the promise to achieve anything I
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wanted. I mean I didn't achieve what I wanted at that time which was to become an NHL hockey player. So I had to settle
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for politician. But the reality is I looked around my neighborhood at that time and I saw people who were achieving
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great lives. They worked as electricians, carpenters, plumbers, police officers, in the case of my parents, teachers. And they were able to
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earn a great life o own a home and build a future for their kids. But as I got o older and I I went to University of
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Calgary and in between pub nights read about our political history and how we got where we are. I realized that the
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freedom that we enjoyed in this province did not just fall out of the prairie sky. Our English ancestors evolved it
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into existence starting in the 13th century.
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It was passed down the ages. It jumped over the pond, crystallized in our parliamentary system, and was inherited
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by Albertans when we joined Confederation in 1905.
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And that's the thing conservatives understand. Everything great comes from something before us. Countries don't
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happen by accident. They're built and passed down. Conservatives are the heir to the political tradition that built
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Canada. We are the party of confederation, the party of John A.
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Macdonald. who we united this country across a des a disperate land. We brought different people together. Think
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of what the fathers had to do to bring about confederation. Different regions, different economies, different priorities, vastly different interests.
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Yet they believed in something remarkable. They believed that the people of British North America could
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accomplish more together than they would apart. So they built they built a federation, a railroad. They built a
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country, one of the most successful, peaceful, free, and prosperous nations the world had ever known. The
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conservative tradition has been to pass down through the ages what came before us. In the words of Burke, it's the
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contract between the dead, the living, and the yet to be born. And it's the promise that each of those generations
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will be a little better off than the one that came before. So time and again, conservatives and Canadians, we chose
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hope over despair, building over blocking, unity over division. And
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Alberta was one of the great beneficiaries of that vision. It's a testament to what people can build when
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they have the freedom to do so. It's such a precious inheritance we have here in Alberta.
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Let's face it, this inheritance that we had has been defended in town halls and on battlefields
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with bullets overseas and ballots over here. I say all that because it's easy
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to take for granted the things that we have. It's easy to forget that none of this none of this that we have in Canada came easy.
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Many worked, more suffered, some even died so that we could have the country that we have today. They had to be
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strong so that we could be free. In two world wars, the strength of our people meant having the courage to do the right
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thing and see it through to the final hour. our soldiers, sailors, and air
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crew. They showed up again and again in Korea, Cyprus, Bosnia, Afghanistan, countless other places. More than
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118,000 Canadians gave their lives for this country and our freedom. Thousands of
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them from right here in Alberta. That is the true north, strong and free. The men and women. Yes. Give them a round of applause. Shu. Thank you.
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[applause]
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The men and women who built this province, they weren't quitters. If they had been, they'd never have made it here in the first place. They had to travel
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by boat and train and horse carriage and even by foot to make it ac across the vast expanse, the second largest nation
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on earth. We owe it to them to stay and fight for what they sacrificed to build, to fight for Canada, to fight for the
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freedom and the strength that sometimes feels like we've lost and to build our country back up again.
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So, you know, with this inheritance, with all these blessings, with all the wonder of which I speak, I think a lot
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of you are asking, why are there some that want to leave? Why is it that there are those who have lost hope?
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Now, if you ask them, they won't say anything bad about Canada or their fellow Canadians. They don't talk badly about our country, its people, its
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history, its achievements, its flag. In fact, many of them still love Canada.
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Some have told me that they are frustrated patriots. They are men and women who put on team Canada Maple Leaf jerseys and cheered their country in
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Olympic games. They celebrated when Sydney Crosby go scored the golden goal.
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And the older ones still remember screaming their voices horse when Henderson beat the Russians
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with pride, with joy. They even shed tears at times in those special moments they united and bound together our
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country. It's the same love that will bring pain to them when they hear the trumpet play the last post on
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Remembrance Day just a few weeks from now. You see, deep down, I think these people still love Canada. So why are
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they voting to have a referendum on potentially leaving the country? Well, most will tell you that they have complaints with the government in
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Ottawa. I can relate to a few of those complaints.
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They feel like the country has moved away from its foundations and denied its basic promise. Youngsters are frustrated they can no longer afford homes. Working
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folks can't understand why the grocery prices are so high and they can't afford food and fuel. Trades workers wonder why
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our government keeps our resources in the ground and their opportunities down there with it. They see immigration
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that's out of control and a justice system that turns loops violent criminals on our streets. All Albertans wonder why they send so much to Ottawa
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in tax dollars and get so little in return. But here's the thing. There are Canadians right across the country that
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wonder the very same things. To those people who are thinking about taking out their frustration on the current
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government by voting for separation in the referendum, I say this. Canada is more than a government. It is a people,
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a flag, a land, a history, and a promise. What you really want, what you really want to restore is the Canada
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that you knew and still love with solid borders, safe streets, affordable food and homes, boundless resource, wealth,
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and opportunity for everyone. A country with a common history and identity that holds it all together.
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That is that is the Canada that we all knew and still love. That is the core of who we are. So our real goal should not be separation. It should be restoration.
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It should not be to tear down our country, but to build it up. It should be to build a country on the solid and the oldest foundations. The answer,
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therefore, is more than ever, we need to be more Canadian than we ever have been, freer than ever, stronger than ever,
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prouder than ever, richer and more affordable than ever. But to do that, we must stay and fight for our country. And that's what conservatives will do.
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[applause]
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Quitting is the easy way out. And Albertans are not quitters. We don't just take our ball and go home.
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We don't walk away. We stand and fight for what we believe in and we reflect upon all that we have.
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Alberta's story is one of hardworking men and women who never gave up. Turning prairie grasslands and forests into
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treasure chests of riches, farmers and forest workers, ranchers and riands, entrepreneurs and explorers, artists and
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adventurers, warriors and workers, pioneers and patriots, all living the promise of Canada. For most of our
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history, can Canada allowed us as Albertans the freedom to fulfill our potential and become the richest place
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at various times, the richest place anywhere on earth. Remembering this partnership is important because much of this referendum debate has rightly
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focused on what Canada, Alberta has done for Canada, but and it's easy to focus on the flaws of the country. But while
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we focus on those things, we must not forget and we must not ignore what Canada has done for Alberta. Some things
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are obvious. The railway, the highway, all of the national infrastructure that connects us through the country to the rest of the world. Being part of this
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means that we're part of the second largest country anywhere on earth. We are part of a country that is 25 times
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the size, has seven times the GDP, and eight times the people than we would have on our own. We have a vital link
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through this massive land of ours through to the sea from Vancouver to Asia, from Halifax to Europe. We are the
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second biggest country in the world, but the biggest when it comes to oceanic coastline. A bigger market, a bigger military, and a bigger land mass. It all
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means that we have more room to travel, more room to breathe, more room to trade, more room to grow than we would have if we were isolated and alone. It
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means being freer and more open than we would be by ourselves. So, we can choose. We can choose to be part of that
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bigger vision or we can ensure that we close the door and limit the size and
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the strength of our people. Part of our mission should be to be a bigger and even more powerful Alberta. To move an
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entire nation in the direction we want to lead the nation to become bigger, bolder, and more hopeful, stretching
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from sea to sea to sea. Leaving all that behind would make us smaller. Perhaps more importantly, it would mean leaving
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behind the people that we love across this country. So my message to Albertans is this.
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Don't leave your fellow Canadians behind. Lock arms with them. Lock arms with Canadians who want to restore the promise of Canada. Lock arms with Newf
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Finland and Labrador in their mission to double oil and gas production. Lock arms with Quebecers who want to have full autonomy over their provincial
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jurisdiction just like we Albertans do.
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lock arms with indigenous Canadians to stop the federal government's gun grab and let our hunters, farmers, and sport
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shooters keep their property. Lock arms with the police unions in Ontario who are crying out for tougher criminal justice so that we can keep their
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communities and ours safe. lock arms with BC to build LG liquefaction terminals so we can liquefy that gas and
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sell it for hundreds of billions of dollars overseas, making our province even richer. Lock arms with ambitious,
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hardworking young people for homes, jobs, and hope right across the country.
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Lock arms with all Canadians to save money and jobs, to keep people safe, to cap immigration, and to put Canada first. Lock arms for the affordable,
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safe, and independent Canada we all deserve.
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Now, I've tried to be the voice for the voiceless. Those whose lives have grown particularly hard over the
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last several years. And many of them are right here. Many of you are right here in Alberta. And I know what you're
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thinking. That the vote on Monday is a chance to sound the alarm, to put out a distress signal, maybe even just to send a message.
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Your frustration is understandable, but your problem, our problem is not with our fellow Canadians. We're in this
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together. The Windsor waitress I met the other day working three jobs to feed her kids has the same struggle as the single
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mom in Waywright. The 35-year-old couple in New Brunswick that can't afford a home has the same fight as the rural
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Alberta couple. Put a minor from northern Ontario next to an oil sands worker in Fort Mack or an offshore
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worker from Newfoundland. In fact, many of them all work together and travel together across the country. I think there's even a petition going around to
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make Fort Mack part of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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We're all one. Same goals, same values, same struggles, same people.
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We have many faces from many places, but we are one people and we must stick together. From Toefield to Timmans,
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Drumheller to Drummondville, St. John's to St. Albert, from Calgary to Cambridge to Cornerbrook to Cranbrook, we are all
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Canadians. Let's unite around what we have in common rather than tearing ourselves apart by what divides. common
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values, common history, common purpose, common sense for a common people. In the words of the great Prairie populist
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Prime Minister John Deanbaker, I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my
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own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of
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freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and for all of mankind. God bless a strong Alberta within a united Canada.
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Thank you very muc
 

 

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Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Former PM Harper speaks at investment summit

 

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   Former PM Harper speaks at investment summit 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yf3MMm5ijM

 

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Thank you very much, distinguished guests from Canada and
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around the world. It is an honor to address you today and to formally conclude this summit. I want to express
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my appreciation on behalf of myself and on behalf of the 20th prime minister of Canada, the right honorable Jean Cretchan. I want to express our
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appreciation to the organizers at CPP, at PSP, and the government of Canada for
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inviting us here and also for giving me the podium today. Um, the prime minister
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said to me yesterday, I really want to thank you for doing this. Said, well, you may want to wait and see what I'm
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going to say first. I I used a line from uh from that famous British TV show. I said, you know, I am a partisan
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appointment. Your decision to give me a microphone is a courageous decision, Prime Minister. In any case, I've been delighted to attend this event and even
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more pleased to see so many familiar faces in this room today. I have met with many of you in your own countries
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these past few years. And I consider you friends. And I thank you each and every one of you for making the journey to spend this time here with us in Canada.
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I consider your attendance an act of friendship and a vote of confidence in our country at a crucial time.
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Now, I know that as board chair of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, you expect me to speak
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about Canada as an investment destination, and I will. I tell people at Aimco, we are not an economic
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development fund. We are global investors. We seek the best returns from anywhere that we can for our clients.
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And for all those reasons, we have over 40% of our investments in this country.
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So we see lots of opportunity in Canada.
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That's my ANCO hat. However, I am also a former prime minister and as such, I cannot help but address the current situation that Canada faces.
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It is a situation in which given the ongoing violations of our trade agreement by the United States and the
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current impass in negotiations, our country felt compelled to walk away and to see a trade war commence in earnest.
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This had to be a very difficult decision. But I do believe that our government had no choice but to take
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this path. I say that as one who has long been and known to be a great
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admirer of America and one who believes that our close proximity and close relationship to the United States has
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been among this country's most precious assets. However, it is clear it is clear that the current
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US administration views our level of economic integration as incompatible
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with our separate sovereignty. Thus, to maintain that sovereignty, we must pursue diminished reliance upon the
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United States. There will be significant costs to this effort, but those are costs that I hope and believe Canadians are able and prepared to accept.
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I find this all I do find this all very sad just as equally necessary. And I
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believe that in this necessity, our country will also discover and is discovering opportunity.
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economic. It is an opportunity for Canada to rediscover a long-term agenda for economic prosperity, an opportunity
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to realize our true potential as a country, which I believe, to be frank, we have come nowhere close to achieving.
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We in this room all know very well that this is a competitive world fraught with shifting
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politics, fragile supply chains, and other transactional pressures now more so than recent decades. In the face of
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such change, Canada cannot simply blame external factors or make other excuses
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to explain away the difficulties that we face. Leadership is defined by taking accountability for what you can control.
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And today, more than ever, Canada must become more internally competitive, more externally connected, and more truly
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sovereign than it has been. That is the opportunity.
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And obviously, I do want to speak about the Canadian economy.
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Canada possesses, I know you've heard it throughout the conference, Canada possesses a unique economic structure and therefore unique opportunities. We
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have a healthy economic presence across the full range of economic activities,
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primary, secondary, tertiary, advanced technology.
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We must be committed to retaining this incredible economic diversity. And we cannot allow the Trump administration to hollow out our industrial capacities.
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Yet, despite this economic diversity, it remains my view that our resource
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endowment is our special comparative advantage.
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We have abundant resources, renewable and non-renewable, of every type, way beyond our conceivable needs in almost every category.
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Further, these resources are found in an unmatched rule of law business environment with the highest of environmental
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standards and far removed from conflict zones. That is a comparative advantage.
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Now, I'm going to keep my comments brief. So, I want to focus on one thing.
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I know that at AMCO we are rightly known as one of the maple eight but dare I say that we are also the wild rose one
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that is the sole major fund based in the province of Alberta.
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So allow me to speak a bit from that perspective particularly from the perspective from Alberta's position as
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the center of the country's energy industry.
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As I said repeatedly when I was Canada's prime minister, Canada should be an
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energy superpower. Whatever the energy mix of the future, Canada should be a major and a global supplier.
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We are fifth largest in the world in natural gas production, fourth in the production of oil.
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Notes say fourth in oil reserves. Rich Krueger says third. I'll take that. He knows more than I do. We are third in
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hydroele electricity. We are second in uranium. All of it today from Saskatchewan, which with the development of new mines there will make us the
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largest global producer within a few years. Great credit for that is by the way due to Premier Mo and the government of Saskatchewan.
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And by the way, we are not just a uranium miner. We are a builder and refurbisher of nuclear re reactors with
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a worldleading regulatory review agency for the development of SMRs.
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And of course, as a country, we have plenty of investments in bofuels and renewables. and we possess the raw
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materials necessary for further development of those sectors.
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In 2015, Canada was poised to become that energy superpower.
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Today, we are not. Why? Because of deliberate policy choices that followed over the next decade. But there is no
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point bemoning what is past, especially because the opportunity of becoming that global
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energy superpower is fortuitously offering itself to us. Once again,
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I do congratulate our current federal government on the measures it has taken to fasttrack major project approvals,
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especially for projects in the oil sands. These changes are welcome and they are very important. However, more
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does need to be done. The burdens and restrictions that do not exist elsewhere simply must be removed in Canada. And we
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need to provide comprehensive reformed regulatory regulatory reviews and
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permitting processes so that Canada can provide investors with a certainty of a science-based decision on both resource
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and related infrastructure projects within a fixed and reasonable time frame as we had set up a decade ago.
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Ironically, if we do not do these things as a country, the Americans will continue to
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be our sole customers and they will not lack the urgency that we have lacked here in Canada, nor will many others in
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the world. That is why I have to say that I am very encouraged by the detailed comments the prime minister made today
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on doing just some of these things and I welcome them. I believe that Canada's new government is committed to further
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reforms in these areas and committed to their urgency. And I know that our premier, Premier Smith, will continue
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using that what we call Alberta diplomacy to remind our federal government of that
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because becoming that energy superpower is no longer just good business. Not
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only in my view good politics, it is critical to our prosperity and indeed to
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our survival as a country. Critical to raising our horizons beyond narrow domestic considerations to address global opportunities and imperatives.
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And to be blunt, we need not worry about demand from either customers or
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investors. As I have been reminded by many of you in this room and others around the world for a decade, the world
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is developing an unprecedented demand for energy in all its forms. And they want it from Canada, provided we want to get it out of the ground and sell it.
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But this is not just about other markets. We need this energy not only for its export potential. We also need
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it right here in Canada for our own reindustrialization and technological innovation as well as
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of course as a critical signal that Canada is indeed once again a serious investment destination.
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And that brings me back to the purpose of this conference. As I've said, we are honored that you have joined us. I
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congratulate the federal government for holding this conference. I believe the first of its kind in Canada.
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It is such a great innovation that I wish I had thought of it.
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But we all know that it is only a start and to realize its potential, we need ongoing determination and urgency here
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in Canada. I do hope that this conference I do hope that this conference is not a one-off. I think
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this conference needs to become regular and we need your input delegates from everywhere. We need your input to make it bigger and better going forward.
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Now just in conclusion, I know that you all have come here to discuss commercial opportunities,
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but it is my hope that in these conversations, you have deepened the trust and affirmed
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the values upon which commercial partnerships are built. Because friends, this country offers something even more
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precious than our abundant raw resources and our plentiful business opportunities.
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It offers a mindset of respect, of collaboration, and of partnership.
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No matter their industry, Canadians are fundamentally in the business of building trusted partnerships that benefit both sides.
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This orientation for partnership has been in Canada's DNA since our confederation was first established in 1867.
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It is chiseled in our national character like the granite of the Canadian shield and it flows across the boundless expanse of our freshwater.
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It is also the cornerstone of real value creation. And in that vein, I hope that this gathering is merely the beginning
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of building such partnerships. In the meanwhile, I really do want to thank all of you once again, each and every one of
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you for coming here. Godspeed wherever your travels may take you next. Merci.
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God bless Canada. [applause]
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Well, well, thank you, Mr. Prime Minister. Your words are warmly received and they've
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captured the spirit of the moment and the bright future that lies ahead for this country. What a way to close out the first ever Canada Investment Summit.

 

 

 

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