Poilievre pledges to reward communities for building more houses
Conservative leader says ‘stay tuned’ for party’s future candidate in Nunavut
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, wearing a blue hard hat, greets workers during a tour of a construction site in Iqaluit Monday. It was Poilievre’s first visit to Nunavut’s capital since becoming party leader in 2022. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)
Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says municipalities should be rewarded for building more homes, and territorial governments should also be able to collect more revenues from the extraction of their natural resources.
“I want keys in doors, and the only way to make that happen is to speed up the permitting, free up the land to build, build, build,” Poilievre said in an interview at the start of his visit to Iqaluit on Monday.
Poilievre, who hopes to become prime minister after the next election, outlined some of his plans for governing ahead of a rally at the Frobisher Inn, scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks in Iqaluit, Monday morning. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)
The Opposition leader visited an NCC Development Ltd. construction site of a mixed-use housing and commercial development in Lower Plateau. Wearing a hard hat and safety vest, he met with workers and shared his criticism of Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.
On housing, he said that the more houses get built in municipalities, the more federal funding those local governments will receive.
“The federal government right now is paying local governments to push paper,” Poilievre said.
Poilievre also said he is “totally committed” to the implementation of the devolution agreement signed earlier this year. In January, Trudeau and Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok signed an agreement that will see Nunavut assume more control over decisions affecting natural resources in the territory by 2027.
However, Poilievre, who came to Iqaluit from a weekend rally in Yellowknife, said a Conservative government would look for ways for territorial governments — including Nunavut’s — to keep more of the revenues that come from mining and other natural resource extraction projects.
“We’re going to have a First Nations and Indigenous resource charge that will allow businesses that do resource projects to pay a share of their federal income tax to local authorities rather than funnelling it through Ottawa,” Poilievre said.
The Conservative leader spoke on a few other issues, such as a promise to bolster the Canadian Armed Forces presence in the Arctic to meet the military threats posed by Russia and China in the Arctic.
He also repeated his vow to repeal the federal carbon tax. And he said he would scrap Trudeau-era gun laws, which he said are restrictive to Inuit hunters.
The Conservative leader said winning Nunavut again in the next election is “very important.”
Last week’s scrapping of the NDP’s deal with the Liberals by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh increases the possibility of a federal election happening anytime between the resumption of Parliament next week and the scheduled election in October 2025.
Nunavummiut have picked New Democrats or Liberals to represent them since 2015. The Conservatives last held the riding between 2008 and 2015.
When asked, Poilievre didn’t identify who he was thinking about as a candidate in Nunavut.
“Well, I can’t say, but stay tuned,” he said.
What a wacko.
He’s just weird.
It’s been a while since the Conservatives have run an electable candidate in Nunavut, the momentum is theirs this time, hope they can up their game this time.
With Pierre at the helm, expect Canada to finally return to its greatness. Where all of our communities can prosper, where freedom reigns supreme, and where provinces and territories can have their autonomy.
How’s the weather in Moscow, comrade?
The Territory needs infrastructures that lacks:
– Housing
– Education (Academic) needs improvement
– Healthcare (lacks)
– Small Craft Harbour (no infrastructure)
– Transportation (needs improvement)
– Homecare (lacks)
– Recycle (none exists)
– SPCA (none exists)
– Water Treatment Plants & Sewage Lagoons (needs improvement)
– Create GN Jobs in Small Municipalities
These ARE wish list’s but wait until ELECTED, and may perhaps put aside! 🎁🦺🛒👓
You know Pierre, you might have actually gotten a few people out to your event if it had been open to the public. Making attendees pre-register is not the way. Having a private meeting with a local contractor is straight out of the Harper playbook and trust me, it didn’t fly well with the locals when he had Tower Arctic block off public access to his event.
Host an open and public townhall, put out some food and drink, let people ask you questions and shake their hands – hardhat or not. Of course, we know this will never happen as the CPC loves to operate under a cloak of secrecy and shuns the general public as if they were outcasts. You were never going to get my vote but hey, some things need saying.
Sure reminds me of the Harper days, only certain people are invited, certain media, closed door events, back room negotiations. Just not open or accountable.
Brings me back to the good old Harper days.
I hope most of you have learned your lessons from having a Cons party in control, the trickle down economics does not work.
Great hope with Pierre he does make sense this country is not the Canada I grew up with we need someone like Pierre in
Need more explanation of what you mean Canada is not Canada anymore in the country you grew up in, be honest what you mean by that, cause we can interpret in so many ways.
too many immigrants is what is meant by that! figure it out!
You are right, but this is nothing new, for a few hundred years there has been way too many foreigners coming to turtle island, mostly from Europe.
European Canadians.
Grotesque for a so called Inuit Corporation to promote this distasteful candidate. NCC quit pretending to be owned by Inuit yesterday!
Cry more, let it all out
Putin’s Poilievre didn’t open this to the public, since countless right-wingers are discovered to be propped up by Russian money.
Not to mention his affiliation with the white supremacists from the Convoy, like Pat King, Tamara Lich, Chris Barber, and their whole association with the Sons of Odin, and Diagolon; it’s no surprise PP’s afraid to talk to the public at every instance.
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it every time, ABC. Everybody now, ABC.
Poilievre’s real goal is to cut the taxes on the rich. He hobnobs with rich businesspeople all around Canada. (A particularly notable example is the Semple family, with their Brandt machinery business, selling John Deere equipment designed to be impossible to repair in the field.)
Poilievre promises more housing, but as a rich landlord himself, his real goal is to make as much money off renters as possible. He is not going to bring affordable housing to Nunavut. If anything, what he will bring will simply make rich landlords even richer (i.e. more taxpayer dollars into the pockets of already-very-rich real-estate developers).
Poilievre panders to ordinary people and is quite articulate. But he really answers to the big corporations (especially the corporate landlords that use AI software like RealPage YieldStar to jack up rents).
Poilievre has many similar traits to the following politicians, all of whom espouse neoliberalism (i.e. deregulation, privatization, slashing of public services, slashing of environmental protections, slashing of consumer protections, and laissez-faire economy with near-zero government oversight, all designed to ensure that the rich accumulate as much dynastic wealth as possible while the poor become ever poorer):
– Donald Trump (a convicted felon who should have been imprisoned long ago, carrying a long list of nightmares favouring Big Business over the public interest. For details on the Trumpian horrors to come if this disgusting, violence-fostering orange-haired ogre were to get into the White House again, the Project 2025 document provides all the details.)
– Doug Ford (totally wrecking Ontario’s prime farmland for his Mafia-style sprawl-developer cronies, destroying the Conservation Authorities, destroying Regional-level planning, undoing decades’ worth of progress in environmental protection, redesignating rural lands are urban in a way that bypasses all public input, thereby effectively enabling developers to engage in insider trading, to the point that there is an ongoing RCMP investigation).
– John Rustad (plans to destroy DRIPA, BC’s reconcilation plans, and also plans to destroy the 30-by-30 plan for environmental protection, so that the logging industry can decimate even more of BC’s old-growth forests)
– Gordon Campbell (slashed BC Forests in half, with the damage still persisting to this day, so that the logging industry is still expected to police itself, thereby resulting in massive damage to stream habitat and sensitive ecosystems).
– Danielle Smith (destroying Alberta Health Services, selling out Alberta to Big Coal, pandering to the fossil-fuel industry at the expense of renewables)
– Christopher Luxon (New Zealand, destroying decades of progress made for the Indigenous Maori people there, and destroying the progress made by Jacinda Ardern)
– Jair Bolsonaro (wrecking the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, deepening the ingress of illegal logging and also gold mining, with mercury literally everywhere, plus cattle-ranching, with the end being that the Amazon Rainforest will likely be a savanna).
– and various other examples too tiring to mention.
Although Justin Trudeau has been lacklustre and uninspiring, Poilievre is sleazy and disgusting when you look behind his populist façade.
Trudeau is not very competent, but Poilievre is a downright malicious behind a deceptively friendly face.
How many people are gullible enough to fall for Poilievre’s tricks?
Trudeau is a nepo baby who has more rich friends than Poilievre, not to mention was raised with a trust fund and a silver spoon in his mouth. Trudeau has also filled high-ranking positions within his government with his rich friends who were all groomsmen in his wedding.
We now know who you voted for and why we are in this mess for the last nine years. You should be ashamed of yourself for allowing this and allowing it to continue.
I have always voted either NDP or Green. I am fully aware that no party is 100% perfect, and the same goes for any leader.
The key things to keep in mind in this discussion are the following:
– Pierre Poilievre is worse than Justin Trudeau,
– Justin Trudeau is not the best choice.
– No party is perfect, but if you don’t vote at all, then you are effectively giving your vote to those who do vote.
– There are other choices beyond Pierre and Justin, but whether they have a change of getting in is a different topic altogether. This brings up the topic of our electoral system. Ideally we would have a Proportional Representation System (as the Scandinavian countries do), as opposed to our existing First Past The Post system.
– Over time, the First Past The Post system generates a lot of long-term problems and “pendulum politics”, and therefore sustainability issues (both environmental and economic). Entire political-science textbooks and papers have been written on these topics. To delve in depth into this topic would require far more space than is available here.
Nice photo op with NCC employee. Where are all the inuit employees that were to be hired and trained. Even if there are only a couple it would have been a more effective photo op if that few were front and center. But this is the closet Skippy has ever come to real work. Graduated university and straight to politics. Yup, he has an understanding of the people who built this country.
Wearing a High-Viz vest and hard hat for this photo op is the closest that Pierre Poutine has ever got to an honest day’s work! I cant believe that this MAGA wannabe will likely be our next PM!
Skippy will reward communities that build homes. The hamlets do not build homes the NHC builds homes with Fed and GN money. Carbon tax. Most homes are PH or SH. Heating fuel paid by GN. The majority of vehicles, especially in Hamlets are contractor or GN owned. Nunavut residents for the most part are not suffering from carbon tax. Payroll tax is lowest in the land, no property tax outside Iqaluit. No provincial sales tax. Things are expensive because of where we are but it could be worse. Just watch.
No property tax outside of Iqaluit?? Well, there goes any serious consideration of your ill-informed opinion.
He is shorter and younger but I guess that’s it, same stories about fake news and cozying up to felons.
Why are you reading NN if it’s fake news, enough of the fake news narrative, there’s no such things as most news organizations have fact checkers
I meant polievre same as trump. Everything is fake news even though it comes from a reputable source. Sorry for the confusion. He is the same as Trump, only younger and shorter but still has a great capacity for bs.
Reading it again, I think they disagreed with the ‘fake news’ narrative.
BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! BORING!!
Bring back Mummilaaq!!!🤣😅😂
At least Trudeau has held some sort of a job before politics. Pierre Poilievre who once famously called for term limits for politicians, has never had a job outside politics in his life and has been sucking the federal teat for 20-plus years and counting.