Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is warning Canadians that Mark Carney will push for a quick election if he becomes Prime Minister to avoid scrutiny and capitalize on a political honeymoon.
Poilievre said, in an exclusive interview with Juno News co-founder Candice Malcolm, that Carney wants to avoid scrutiny over his past. That includes his economic advice to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his decision to move his company headquarters to the United States, and his history of opposing Canadian pipelines while supporting them in the Middle East and investing in American coal.
“I think it’s important we do get a quick election. But let’s not mistake the real reason why Carney wants that: it is to avoid any scrutiny and to have the Liberal establishment, the Liberal media, basically rubber-stamp him as prime minister so that he can go on carrying out the same policies that have destroyed our economy, doubled our debt and housing costs after nine years of the Liberals,” said Poilievre.
He added that barring a few exceptions, the mainstream media has supported the Liberals and echoed their talking points for the past six or seven elections. He expects the same treatment in the next election.
Even before the election, or the Liberal Party of Canada’s leadership race has concluded, Poilievre warned that Carney is already lying to Canadians.
“There’s going to be a big con job coming up,” warned Poilievre.
He said that although Carney historically enthusiastically supported the carbon tax and even called for it to be increased faster, he now claims he will pause it. Poilievre predicted that if Carney were to win the election he would introduce an even bigger carbon tax and scrap the existing rebate.
True North previously published an investigative series highlighting Carney’s previous claims to uncover his beliefs, background, and vision for the world.
Despite not yet winning the party’s leadership race, Carney previously came under fire for acting as if he was already Canada’s prime minister.
In general, Poilievre said the Liberals are making a “funny argument.”
“They’re saying: please forgive them for all the economic damage they did because we have to focus on the Trump tariffs. The economic damage Liberals did through taxes, debt, and blocking resource projects was bad before the tariffs. It’s lethal after the tariffs,” said Poilievre. “The fact that we’re facing threats of these unjustified tariffs now is another reason we can’t afford to take a risk on these radical tax-and-spend Carney-Trudeau Liberal policies that have failed over the last nine years.”
He said the Liberals’ spending problem is derived from a mathematical formula that has been known for millennia.
Citing economist Milton Friedman, Poilievre explained that when you print money faster than the supply of goods, the result is inflation. He added that printing money is the sneakiest way to increase taxes.
“Inflation is actually just the symptom. The real disease is overspending. Governments don’t print money for fun. They print it so they can spend it. It’s the sneakiest way to raise taxes without actually holding a vote,” said Poilievre. “It’d be like raising the GST by three or four points — you’d get thrown out of office for that — but if you just tell the central bank to do a bunch of backroom hocus pocus that no one can understand, call it quantitative easing, you can sneak it under the radar. And that’s what they did.”
Carney did not respond to True North’s request for comment.