Poilievre blasts Carney, Liberal economic record in Canadian Club speech

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Mark Carney has not delivered on his economic promises after more than a year in office.

Poilievre spoke to a business crowd at the Canadian Club Toronto today to lay out his vision for Canada’s economy.

The Conservative leader largely repeated his pledges to cut taxes and regulations in his speech, and promised to get government out of the way of free enterprise.

Poilievre said Canada is poorer, weaker and more expensive to live in after a year of Carney in power and cited a new report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business describing an “entrepreneurial drought,” where more businesses are closing than opening.