Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre stopped by Hamilton this afternoon on his common-sense campaign tour.
The opposition leader visited a Stoney Creek factory to support Hamilton East’s conservative candidate Ned Kuruc and to promote his party’s stance against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and many government policies.
Poilievre stated that it will take time for the nation to “turn around” the housing crisis but that it is unknown how long it will take.
He proposed a policy that would incentivize municipalities to increase home development through expediting permits and freeing up federal lands for sale.
The policy would distribute federal funds with the goal of increasing annual home building if they met a targeted growth of 15 per cent per year.
“If they don’t hit my 15 per cent target, I will pull back money from these municipalities – if they beat my target, they’ll get a bonus,” he said.
The leader campaigned strongly against the Liberal government’s carbon tax saying if he is elected as Prime Minister, “on day one that tax is going to go.”
He also critiqued Trudeau saying that the country’s “gross mismanagement of our borders” allowed two men linked to ISIS to immigrate to Canada.
Poilievre promised if elected, he would “fend off thieves, criminals and fraudsters” with his policy revisions. “We would bring home the ‘common-sense’ responsible immigration policy that we had before Trudeau,” he said.
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