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LIEDTKE asks Pierre Poilievre About Canada's Foreign Policy Leverage & Palestine Violating Statehood Requirements · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: John Lidke, Convection Release. So much of foreign policy is
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  Speaker 1: about the leverage that we have as a country. We
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  Speaker 1: just saw that the Palestinian Authority has delayed elections. They
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  Speaker 1: have yet to demilitarize the state. And, of course, we
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  Speaker 1: saw that there has yet to be governance reform. I wonder,
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  Speaker 1: with the lack of leverage that we have on that file,
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  Speaker 1: and it seemingly is that we're not moving on the
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  Speaker 1: tariff file, what leverage does Canada have when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to dealing with foreign policy on the world stage? And
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  Speaker 1: what would Conservatives do differently?
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  Speaker 2: So first of all, we should not be giving aid
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  Speaker 2: to a government that's breaking its promise. The Palestinian regime
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  Speaker 2: said it was going to hold elections. They're breaking that promise.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why we would be sending Canadian tax
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  Speaker 2: dollars from people who can't afford to pay their bills
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  Speaker 2: to a dictatorial terrorist regime like that, especially now that
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  Speaker 2: they broke the central promise that our Prime Minister claimed
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  Speaker 2: was a condition for his support of them. Back on
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  Speaker 2: this continent, our.
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  Speaker 3: Our leverage is energy and resources. We know the Americans
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  Speaker 3: need energy.
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  Speaker 2: That's why President Trump is signing a deal with Russia,
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  Speaker 2: of all countries, Russia, to get diesel that he could
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  Speaker 2: be getting from Canada.
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  Speaker 3: This is what is so frustrating about us not having
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  Speaker 3: a deal. We could be selling that diesel from Canadian
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  Speaker 3: oil sands and upgraded at Canadian refineries generating Canadian paychecks
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  Speaker 3: of $ 200, 000 a year for our welders, pipefitters, industrial carpenters
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  Speaker 3: here in Canada, while making North America energy secure and
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  Speaker 3: energy affordable. That could all be used as leverage in
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  Speaker 3: this trade deal. We have 10 of the 12 NATO-defined
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  Speaker 3: warfighting minerals that you need to defend the continent. The
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  Speaker 3: Americans don't have those. We could build a massive reserve
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  Speaker 3: of that that they could access on a preferred basis
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  Speaker 3: if they give us tariff-free trade. We have what America needs.
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  Speaker 3: Let's use that leverage to get what we want, which
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  Speaker 3: is tariff-free access to the most lucrative market in the world.
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  Speaker 2: We have time for one last question.