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Let's fight for our freedom, fight for Canada. I am ready for the fight. Are you ready to join me?
Jul 7, 2025
Let workers work. Let builders build. Let farmers farm. Let investors invest. And let parents parent ... We don't back down and we don't run away when things get hard. We dust ourselves off. We get back in the saddle and we gallop forward to the fight. So let's fight for our freedom. Fight for our families. Fight for Alberta. Fight for Canada. I am ready for the fight. Are you ready to join me? Let's do it for the country we love. God bless Canada. -- This video has automatic dubbed versions. Go to Setting / Audio track and select your preferred language among the following: - English - Dutch - French - German - Hindi - Indonesian - Italian - Japanese - Korean - Polish - Portuguese - Spanish Thanks for watching!
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When when I hear our anthem, I think of our promise. A promise now in
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the balance in an election fiercely contested and narrowly decided. Amid the
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gathering shadows at home and abroad, we remember our nation's promise. We will
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be the light. We choose freedom over fear. We will never give in. We will
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never back down. We will never surrender to the forces that would break us. And
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we are led by a great conservative powerhouse forged of iron will, of
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unbreakable bonds, and of an undeniable love of our great country. So, let me
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turn now to one great conservative in particular.
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First elected in 2019, his service exemplified with the sacrifice of his
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family, especially his brilliant wife Danielle, is one of courage, of decency,
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and of integrity. He stands tall in height and in character. He chose his
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country over himself. By making the decision to return our leader in a
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bi-election to go head-to-head with Mark Carney on the floor of the House of Commons, he has assured us that in the
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company of our great conservative family, he'll never have to buy a beer for himself again.
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friends, the former member of parliament for Battle River Crawford and his wife.
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A warm welcome to Damian and Danielle Kurrick.
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[Applause]
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Well, good evening Calgary. It is great to be with you here in Cow Town during
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Calgary Stampede.
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You know, there is something really special that happens when conservatives
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come together with a shared vision for the future, optimism and hope grow. That's the
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Conservative promise. And right now looking at this beautiful group of
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patriotic Canadians, and I understand there's more outside and more in the tent next door, I can tell you folks,
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Danielle and I are filled with hope for the future of our country.
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Now, now folks, I know the last election result wasn't the final result that any
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of us had hoped for, but the gains we made cannot be discounted. They were
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undeniable and significant. Folks, we sent 24 new Conservative MPs to Ottawa
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and earned the largest vote share of the of any Conservative party since 1988.
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That's worth celebrating. But more important than that, folks, is we built
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a growing coalition, a voter coalition from all walks of life.
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And here's the reality. None of that could have been done without Pier Polyv's drive and commitment to
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listening to listening to and fighting for the Canadian people.
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It was this ear to the ground approach that drove his policy development. And as a former member of caucus, the most
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common thing that I would hear Pierre ask is, "What are the people saying?"
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What are the people saying at the doors in the coffee shops across this country?
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He led by example. Thanks guys. He led by example that commitment to
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listening to the people and built policy that mattered to Canadians. And I want
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you to think about this. Every major issue that Pierre Polyv and
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our conser conservative team brought forward defined the agenda. Folks, it
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was Pierre to thank that we no longer pay a consumer carbon tax in Canada.
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Think about every other major issue. Immigration, the chaos and abuse. It was
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Pierre that brought it to the forefront. He exposed the soft on crime agenda. He
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brought inflation to the forefront before it was even a major issue. He led
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the conversation on that. And folks, Pierre Paulv didn't become Canada first
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because the polls said he should be Canada first. He's been Canada first because that's the foundation of what
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Conservatives believe. Now,
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now the question that one naturally asks is, did the Liberals lead on any of those issues? Did they? The answer is
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no. Mark Carney's solution was to copy and paste our policies, dress them up in
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a little bit different language, and put them into his platform. He wasn't leading on any of the issues.
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It was Pierre that was. And it's clear that Carney doesn't even believe in
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these policies. They don't fit the Liberal Party's radical leftist belief system. And we see it front and center
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with their nonsensical gas powered vehicles ban. Can you believe that? They want to ban you from driving a gas
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powered vehicle. Boo is right.
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in oil country. We can maybe use a few more pipelines. Eh,
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now now as Shu mentioned, my wife Danielle and I made the decision to resign my
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seat so that our leader Pierre Polyv could run there with a path back to
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parliament. Danielle and I
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Danielle and I knew that we needed Pierre back in the House of Commons and we saw the opportunity to lead by
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example to make sure that happened as quickly as possible. And folks, I can tell you confidently today, more
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confident now than ever before, that Pierre is the man of principle,
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character, and is the hardest working MP that I have ever met. And folks, he needs to be in Parliament and he is the
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right guy to be the next prime minister of Canada. His
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his energy, passion, and drive have grown our party and strengthened this movement beyond what we have ever seen
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before. And folks, now having had the chance to door knock with him?
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Has anybody in this room door knocked with Pierre Polyv? Now, now I don't just wear cowboy boots
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at Stampede. It's tough to wear cowboy boots doornocking with Pierre Polyv because he
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runs between the doors. His energy, commitment, belief, and principles is
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what this country needs. So now folks, without further ado, please join
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Danielle and I in welcoming the next prime minister of Canada, Pierre Polyv, and his wonderful wife, Anna.
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Thank you, Calgary. It's great to be home. It's great to be back
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here for the greatest outdoor show on earth. And before I begin, thank you to the amazing Damian Kurrick, a man for
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whom I will forever be grateful. Thank you, Damian. You know,
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there'll be more to say about him in a moment, but I me I did overhear him talking about my door knockocking. And what he forgot to tell was his first
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campaign, despite the immense lead he had, he did not want to take anything for granted. Damian was out doornocking.
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I think it was in Drum Heller and he wouldn't let up. It got to be 9:00. It was late at night and uh he kept going
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and his team said, "You know, it's getting to be 9:15. Maybe you should think about stopping." He said, "No, no,
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if we got to keep on going." He wanted to win every single vote. So, it got to
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be 9:30. The lights were starting to go out on the street and Damen just kept on going. And finally, his team said,
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"Damn, you're going to start costing us rather than winning us votes." He said, Okay, I'll make you a deal. One more
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vote and then I stop. He goes up to this house. Lights are all off. Bangs on the
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door. All of a sudden, babies crying. Multiple babies crying. The lights go
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on. They're screaming and hollering from the parents. The mother opens the door and says, "You just woke up my
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triplets." and my husband, she says, who is an
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Olympic Olympic weightlifter, is going to be coming down to have a word with you.
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And he said that won't be necessary. Just tell him that the Liberal candidate came by to say hello.
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How are you, Premier? Great to see Premier Danielle Smith, a champion for freedom.
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Wow. They love you, Danielle. And um I know
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that you're a very hospitable person at stampede time, even for liberals, we have to be hospitable. And so, let me
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start in a spirit of nonpartisanship as a Calgarian to welcome Prime Minister
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Mark Carney to his very first stampede in this role. And he had, of course, to
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do the customary thing and flip some pancakes. Now, he thought he would be great at it because in his trade talks
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with Trump, he's had so much experience flip-flopping. But
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[Music] but but still, it didn't go as planned. One of
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the pancakes got broken in half and the other one splattered everywhere. And he he owned up to it. But a careful
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review of a slow slow motion replay demonstrated exactly what the problem
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was. He couldn't figure out whether to put his elbows up or down.
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So,
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but it is great to be home here. You know, I used to come here to Heritage Park when I was in school. They bring us
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here, dress, our parents would dress us up like it was 1905. And we go into the little schoolhouse. I think it's still
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over there. And they even had the little strap. They didn't they didn't hit us very hard, but I got a little bit of a
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mark on my palm for talking too much during the class. And um this is the
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place that taught me my values. The values of hard work, freedom, family, values that my wife Anna, who I'm very
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honored to have with me here, shares. The values with which we're raising our kids.
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I grew up in these neighborhoods. Walked my dog, ran my dog in Fish Creek Park, delivered the Calgary Sun door to door
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as my very first job. Played hockey in the local arenas. And uh these values
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that I've taken from this community and this province have taken me forward. And of course, these are the values of all
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Albertans, the values that Damian Kurrick has demonstrated in putting his country first. And I'm very excited.
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Yes. Give him one more round of applause.
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Damian is a family man, a hardworking patriot, a great farmer, uh beloved in
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his community, known and trusted by people far and wide. And the story that
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touches me most about him and Danielle was um about a year ago, his father passed away unexpectedly right in the
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middle of the harvest. and they have 6,000 acres that they had to bring home. And if you can imagine, making
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arrangements and mourning such a loss in the middle of the harvest was a big problem. They didn't know how they were
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going to bring home the crop. Then all of a sudden there were these combines
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that just appeared from all directions on one morning and they fanned out into
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the fields and they brought home the crop and dropped it in the bins and went
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back to their farms to do their jobs. And that really is the story of Alberta, isn't it?
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It was more than it was a harvest in more than one way. It was a harvest of the crop that had been planted, but also
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a harvest of all the friendships that had been built over so many years. But the Alberta way didn't require a
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government program or a grant or an application to come to the rescue in a time of difficulty because that's not
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how Albertans work. They get up, they get it done, they do what's help, what's right, they help a neighbor, and when
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they're done, they don't expect any thank you. They go back to doing their business and caring for their families.
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That's what it means to be an Albertan.
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That's the spirit of the stampede, the spirit of free enterprise, personal
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responsibility, communities coming together, neighbors helping each other. It's about remembering where you come from so you know where you're going. But
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that is also the story of Canada. And on the topic of Canada, we know that there
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can only be a strong Canada when there is a strong and respected Alberta.
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For me, [Applause]
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for me that's personal. I was born in 79. And of course, only a few late years
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later, Pierre Elliot Trudeau would attack our province with a national energy program.
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Not to mention, yeah, there's still a few that remember that. Many probably still paying the bill from
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it. At the same time, he hammered the entire country with money printing deficits that gave us the worst
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inflation and interest rates in our history. Our family actually lost our home and we had to scrimp and save and
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get help from extended family in order to get our little place in Shaughnessy which my mother still lives in. I think
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my mother is here today somewhere. There she is. And
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when I got a little older and I started to understand politics and realize what had happened and why we had gone through so much hardship in my early childhood,
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that's one of the things that got me into politics to join with fellow Westerners to stand up for our province
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for fairness within a united Canada to stand with the great leaders like Preston Manning, Stockwell Day, Steven
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Harper, Ralph Klein and to carry carry on the tradition
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that they started and we'll do it again and we will do it again. What's that?
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Peter. Peter Loheed. Another one. Yep. He was a little a little early for me, but yes, absolutely. Peter Lawed and
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you look too young to have known Peter Lawed, but uh but that is the tradition that Danielle
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carries on today. And let me tell you, we are going to fight for our province again. We'll fight for oil and gas, for
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farmers, for low taxes, for decentralization, a stronger military, and a smaller federal government so that
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we can have a bigger Alberta.
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And if elected in Battle River Crowoot, I'll use the platform of leader of the opposition to amplify the legitimate
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demands of Western Canada to end the unfair treatment. The era of Ottawa
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telling Alberta to pay up and shut up must end once and for all.
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[Applause]
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But the answer the answer is alliances. We need to build alliances with other provinces that share our destiny and our
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interests. Let's build an alliance with British Columbombians who want to ship
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liqufied natural gas off of our Pacific coast to Asia and bring home hundreds of billions of dollars in paychecks doing
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it. Let's build alliances.
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Let's build alliances with Saskatchewan and Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who
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want to develop their oil and gas and aren't interested in having anyone in Ottawa cap how much they can produce.
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Let's let's build alliances with Manitobans
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who want to ship oil out of the port of Churchill. Let's build alliances. Yes, let's even
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let's build alliances with Quebec and other provinces that want to decentralize our country and get Ottawa
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out of our business so that provinces and people can make their own decisions.
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[Applause]
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We want to put our country and our people back in charge of their lives. Now, to be honest,
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I wanted to return here today with an election victory. Though we didn't win,
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we made extraordinary gains. We added 25 new seats and 20 2.5 million extra
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votes, the biggest share of vote since 1988.
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We added union members, young people, new Canadians, and countless others to
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our bigger and broader coalition. We earned the support of these people by talking about the things that matters.
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My friends, we won every single major debate of our time on inflation, on
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housing, on natural resources, crime, drugs, and yes, the carbon tax.
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Conservatives led the debate and conservatives won the debate. And we know that people would still be paying
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the carbon tax today had we not put in that fight.
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Now, the Liberals, they have a new salesman. They changed Trudeau for Carney and he has a new uh it's a new
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look, new talking points which some of which he's plagiarized from yours truly,
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and he's now claiming to support things that he's long opposed. Beyond that,
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he's trying to flip-flop on the issues that we know he really believes in. But at his core, he believes in the same
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top-down government knows best approach. Carney's first ever spending bill boosted the cost of government by 8% in
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just one year. That's twice the combined rate of inflation and population growth.
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And I note that that is on the baseline of the biggest, fattest, most morbidly
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obese government we've ever had. He's kept Trudeau's failed policies, the same red tape, the same production caps, the
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no new pipelines law, the ban on oil tankers, on gas powered cars, and on
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much more. His catch and release laws, he's kept them in place. He hasn't changed them. You know, the former
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Liberal justice minister actually had his car stolen
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three times. This is a true story. He literally had his car stolen three times while he was
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justice minister letting car thieves out of jail. But, you know, it is kind of surprising that they would target the
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former justice minister or a liberal politician because you think there'd be some sort of professional courtesy
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in their industry. Mr. Carney though has done nothing to reverse this policy and crime rages in
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our streets. As a result, he's kept Trudeau's outofc control immigration. His deficits are spiraling, spiraling
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out of control. Think of this. Over the last 10 years, Liberals have created a morbidly obese government. And over the
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last 10 weeks, Mark Carney has added hundreds of billions of dollars of new
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spending promises to it.
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Mr.
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And and the reality is, my friends, that Mark
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Carney and the Liberals are spending irresponsibly and threatening our present generation with high inflation
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and our future generations with more debt. In fact, it looks like this year's
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Liberal deficit might be even bigger than the one that Trudeau left behind. The Liberals have gone from the budget
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will balance itself to there's no budget at all.
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And this is really building on their ideology, tax, regulate, subsidize,
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repeat. Mr. Carney has the same approach as Trudeau on this as well. Liberals block things and then they subsidize
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those same things. Think about it. They block pipelines. Then they buy
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pipelines. They pay local bureaucracies to block home building. Then they create
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a $25 billion bureaucracy to build homes. They ban independent media from
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the internet. And then they subsidize other media supposedly because we have a
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crisis in news coverage. They pass laws that stop things and then they dig into
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your pocket to subsidize those same things. As Ronald Reagan put it, if anything moves, a liberal will tax it.
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If it keeps moving, a liberal will regulate it. And when it stops moving, a
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liberal will subsidize it. Now, the commonality and the consistency in all
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of this is the simple. By blocking you from doing something and then making you ask the government to help you do it, it
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makes you reliant on them. It puts them at the center of all power, in charge of your life. And that is their mission.
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That is their goal. Mark Carney wants a full government takeover of our economy.
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He wants more control over your life so elites and insiders like him control and profit from everything. We
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conservatives, by contrast, we believe in freedom. We want you to have the ability to control your own destiny and
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make your own course. We believe in freedom of enterprise, freedom of speech, thought, religion, expression,
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and more. We want government that minds its own business and leaves people to be
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free to decide for themselves. [Applause]
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Let workers work. Let builders build. Let farmers farm. Let investors invest.
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And let parents parent.
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Now, these might seem like theoretical differences, but they are very tangible.
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Here's the core difference between a an economy controlled by the government and one controlled by the free market. A
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governmentont controlled economy is a political economy. Businesses have to clamor to please
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politicians and bureaucrats. In a free market, which we favor, businesses clamor to appro to to impress
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customers. The idea is to put people in charge of their economic lives by letting them have free exchange of work
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for wages, product for payment, and investment for interest. We want Canada to be the freest country on earth, where
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everyone who works hard gets a fair shot at a good life. And that is what brings
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us here to this moment. [Applause]
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That's what brings us to the moment and the job the Canadians have given us. In the short run, our job is to be a strong
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opposition. In the long run, a principled government and waiting. As Lincoln said, I stand with a man when he
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stands right and I stand against him when he stands wrong. We will, for example, offer any help we can to get a
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fair deal for Canada with our American friends. However, we will fight back
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when the government is wrong. We will fight tooth and nail against the ban on gas powered vehicles. You should be in
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the driver's seat and have the freedom to decide what you drive.
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We will continue to impose to oppose the the industrial carbon tax, C69, C48, the
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cap on our energy production, the plastic span. We're going to unleash our energy and our production and make
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Alberta and Canada the richest place on planet Earth.
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[Applause] We will fight against C11, the Censorship Law, and the Online Harms
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Act, so that Canadians can decide what they see and say on the internet. We will not let the government open your
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mail without a warrant. That's not how it works in a free country.
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We will end We will fight for an end to the to the catch and release bail laws which have unleashed chaos on our
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streets. And we will stand unapologetically with licensed, law-abiding, trained and tested firearms
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owners, our hunters and our sport shooters.
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And we will put Canada first in everything that we do. And that includes immigration. Look, we're a welcoming
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country, but the latest news that the Liberals allowed 17,500
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foreign criminals to enter our country by sponging their prior criminal records
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is just the latest example in the radical liberal failed experiment with
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open borders. And Mark Carney refuses to deport any of these individuals, nor has
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he changed, nor has he changed any of the radical immigration targets that Justin Trudeau left behind. Our house,
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our housing, our health care, our jobs, or overwhelmed our young people are cast aside while low-paid temporary foreign
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workers take their jobs. We must end the abuse in the temporary foreign worker program, the international student
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program, the refugee system, and we must restore an immigration system that puts
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our country and its people first.
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We reject the radical century initiative, which liberals have endorsed
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saying that they want to bring our population to a 100 million people over this century. Look, we don't blame
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people for wanting to come here. Almost all of us trace our lineage back
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to immigrants other than our first peoples. But that immigration must be controlled. It must be in numbers that
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we can absorb. It must be the right people at the right pace that will allow us to succeed as Canadians and integrate
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and be one united country.
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And to put Canada first, we need to have a strong armed forces. Conservatives will continue to champion our soldiers,
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our sailors, and our airmen to do the job of securing our sovereignty,
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rebuilding our alliances, asserting our claims, and also preparing for danger.
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But our military is not just about more money. Yes, we need more money, but that money needs to get to the front lines,
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not to back office bureaucracy, not to uh procurement boondoggles and not to
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pet projects of the government. In reality, our military must have a warrior culture and not a woke culture.
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[Music]
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. You know, fighting for these values,
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fighting for these values is never easy. Change, as we've seen, is not easy.
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Nothing worth doing is easy. But building Alberta was not easy. You think
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it was easy for the frontier farmers and the prairie pioneers to break cold
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ground in order to settle this land? No, it wasn't easy either for the oilmen to
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pierce through the frost and stone to bring the black gold to the surface. It
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wasn't easy for the prairie mothers to feed hungry children during drought, depression, and war. It wasn't easy for
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us to run rail across Mustag and Mountain. It wasn't easy for our prairie boys to go off and fight for freedom
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against tyranny in the Great Wars. None of that was easy. Making Alberta was
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hard. Making Canada, the country we love, was even harder. But we don't back
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down and we don't run away when things get hard. We dust ourselves off. We get back in the saddle and we gallop forward
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to the fight. So, let's fight for our freedom. Fight for our families. Fight for Alberta. Fight for Canada. I am
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ready for the fight. Are you ready to join me? Let's do it for the country we love. God bless Canada. Thank you very
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much and happy stampede. [Applause]
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