The leader of the Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, says he lost his leadership of Carleton in the federal elections due to an “aggressive” campaign of the public sector unions after being honest by wanting to reduce the federal works of workers.
Poilievre had celebrated Carleton’s driving from Ottawa for two decades until the elections of April 28, when he was defeated by liberal candidate Bruce Fanjoy for 4,500 votes.
The loss was a great setback for the leader, who before the New Year had been favored to become Prime Minister.
Poilievre no longer has a seat in the House of the Commons, but hopes to recover one in the rural riding of Alberta de Battle River -Crowotfoot on August 18, after former conservative deputy Damien Kurek offered his place in what is one of the safest conservative seats in the country.
In an interview with CBC The house That is broadcast on Saturday, Pailievre said that his campaign was transparent about his intention to reduce public service work if his party won the elections.
“And it is an Ottawa that leads with many federal public servants who did not agree with that approach,” said Poilievre. “They conducted a very aggressive campaign, particularly public sector unions, to defeat me on that basis.”
The leader said that his voice as a representative for the Canadians throughout the country had priority on pleased the 124,000 people in driving, which happens to the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Carney of Nepean.
But Pailievre continues to highlight the successes of his party in the elections under his leadership, including the two and a half million votes that he obtained than in the federal elections of 2021, as well as adding 25 seats in Parliament.
It will undergo a mandatory leadership review in January, that the Constitution of the Conservative Party requires if a leader does not resign after an electoral loss.
Liberals hid plans to reduce public service, says Poilievre
“Some people could say: ‘Well, it was not the best idea to run with a smaller federal public service when you are an Ottawa deputy, but it had an entire country to represent,” Pailievre said. “I had to be honest with people.”
He said the liberals did not do the same.
“I think I could have done what the liberals did, which is to hide their plans,” said Poilievre.
In an exclusive interview with The House of CBC, the presenter Catherine Cullen asks the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre how it makes sense to lose the seat of the Ottawa area she occupied for two decades. Pailievre says that public sector unions “conducted a very aggressive campaign” to defeat it.
Last week, François-Philippe Champagne finance minister asked other cabinet ministers to produce “ambitious savings proposals” to manage public sector spending.
During the electoral campaign, Carney shared his intention to control federal operating spending, saying that “I would spend less, so that Canada can invest more.”
At that time, he said that he would limit the size of the public service and try to make government operations more efficient “taking advantage of AI and machine learning.”
“The voice I bring represents those more than eight million people who believed in my message to fight inflation, to build affordable houses, to enclose criminals, defeat drugs, unleash our resources,” Pailievre told Catherine Cullen, host of The house.
When it comes to reducing the Federal Public Service, he said: “That is the only way in which it demolishes taxes and deficits, and I was honest about it, and people in that particular constituency voted accordingly.”
In an exclusive interview, the conservative leader Pierre Poilievre speaks with the presenter of the House of CBC Radio, Catherine Cullen, about the ongoing commercial negotiations between Canada and the United States, his attempt to recover a seat in the House of Commons and what he believes he led him to lose his conduction of Ottawa.
Pailievre is running against liberal candidate Darcy Spady at Battle River -Crowfoot. Kurek won the seat of riding for the first time in 2019 and was re -elected in April with almost 82 percent of the votes. The conservative young man has said that he plans to run again in the next federal elections.
The conservative leader said he wants to continue challenging the Government in the House of Commons, as is known for doing so during the questions.
“If you observe how the debate has changed in Canada as a result of the arguments and causes I have taken, that voice has been very important for countless people, and it is a voice that I want to amplify,” he said.
