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Pierre Poilievre makes swing through West Island and West End

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By Chelsey St-Pierre and Beryl Wajsman, Editor
The Suburban

Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre made a swing through West Island and West End Montreal on Monday. In DDO he met with young people and community leaders at Mandy’s Salads restaurant. Later in the day he was in TMR at ACME Engineering hosted by its President Robert Presser. He looked at ACME’s leading product lines and met with ACME’s staff and local business leaders. Poilievre was accompanied at both events by Conservative candidate for Pierrefonds-Dollard and Dollard-des-Ormeaux City Councillor Tanya Toledano and Conservative candidate for Mount Royal and leading civil rights attorney Neil Oberman.

At Mandy’s, started by sisters Mandy and Rebecca Wolfe and now grown to multiple locations in Montreal and Toronto, Poilievre congratulated the family on its success and stressed the importance of women entrepreneurs. “We can’t wait to unleash the boundless opportunities for women entrepreneurs across Canada,” Poilievre said. “What is great about this business is that it symbolizes all that is great about Canada. People came here from all around the world, not for free stuff but for freedom — the chance to earn a living and to make their own way. The greatest freedom of all is economic freedom (which is) the freedom to start a business, to work hard, to keep the fruits of your labour for your family and your community, to be rewarded with a powerful paycheck and a pension that buys affordable foods and homes in safe neighbourhoods.”

“Women are at the center of our society bearing the most important responsibilities. I can’t understand how they are not treated with top level respect. There is no more room for this apathy,” Oberman told The Suburban.

At ACME — also a family run business started by Presser’s father Steve who recently passed away at 98 — Poilievre continued the theme of encouraging entrepreneurship. He highlighted the road to how ACME became a leader in multiple technologies including gas detection systems. He promised that a Conservative government would cut taxes and red tape to make it easier for companies to like ACME to flourish. He also made a point that his government’s tax cuts would prioritize helping working men and women ”who are the foundation of our economy and nation.” n

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Four party leaders share agendas at Montreal debates

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Four party leaders share agendas in debates 

Ruby Pratka, LJI reporter

The leaders of Canada’s four main political parties held two wide-ranging debates this past weekend at the Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal. The French-language debate on April 16 was moderated by Radio-Canada anchor Patrice Roy and the English debate the next evening by Steve Paikin, host of TVO’s The Agenda. 

The French-language debate was overshadowed by several controversies. Less than 24 hours before the debate, it was rescheduled to avoid a potential overlap with the end of a Montreal Canadiens game; the morning of the debate, Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault was ruled ineligible on the morning of the debate because Elections Canada had not confirmed a sufficient number of Green candidates. The post-debate press conference attracted nationwide attention when several right-wing outlets asked contentious questions and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh declined to answer; the following day’s conference was cancelled after two arguments between reporters in the press room, leading Michel Cormier, the director general of the Leaders’ Debates’ Commission, to say the commission “could not ensure a propitious environment” for it. 

It was centered around five themes – cost of living, energy and climate, trade war, identity and sovereignty, and immigration. All four leaders linked the themes to their respective agendas. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promised to cut taxes by 15 per cent, eliminate federal sales tax on new homes and reduce regulations to speed the building of houses and resource extraction projects such as mines, and linked Carney’s proposals to those of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet emphasized Quebec’s resource-based economy and cultural and linguistic distinctions; Liberal Leader and frontrunner Mark Carney emphasized the importance of crisis management and the necessity of countertariffs. Singh repeatedly brought up the health system (which Blanchet emphasized was under provincial jurisdiction) and emphasized the NDP’s role in creating the federal dental care program. Carney pledged to reduce taxes for the middle class but defended his decision to walk back a capital gains tax increase.

The trade war segment led to animated discussion. All of the leaders pledged to maintain supply management in the dairy sector, the French language and Canadian sovereignty, and build more homes.

They all weighed in on Quebec City’s tramway and the proposed “third link” between Quebec City and Lévis.  “Quebec City wants a tramway, the Quebec government wants a tramway, the federal government’s responsibility is to send them the money,” Blanchet said. Singh said the NDP supported the tramway but not the third link; Poilievre backed the third link but not the tramway, accusing his rivals of wanting to “ban cars.” Carney said the federal government would continue to support the tramway, but he couldn’t commit to supporting the third link because he hadn’t seen the project yet. 

Issues affecting Indigenous people and linguistic minorities were almost entirely off the agenda, except for Poilievre’s defence of Radio-Canada as a crucial link for francophone minority communities. (He defended his plan to defund CBC and made no mention of Indigenous broadcasting.) 

The English debate was centred around public safety, the cost of living, energy, crisis management and “tariffs and threats to Canada.” The four leaders agreed that U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies posed a threat to the country, and both Carney and Poilievre said they supported countertariffs, although not necessarily dollar-for-dollar tariffs. Poilievre criticized the previous Liberal government for weakening the economy and making it more difficult to build pipelines which he argued were essential for the country’s energy independence. Singh criticized the short-lived Carney government for walking back the capital gains tax increase while failing to increase EI. Blanchet argued that Carney’s and Poilievre’s plans for reducing red tape around pipelines and other energy sovereignty projects overrode provincial jurisdiction. 

Poilievre and Singh criticized the Liberals for the cost-of-living crisis. “Only 10 years ago, you could buy a house for $450,000, but in the lost Liberal decade, housing costs have doubled,” the Conservative leader said, saying a Conservative government would build houses on federal land and train thousands of tradespeople. His NDP counterpart suggested putting price controls on grocery staples and banning corporate landlords from buying affordable rental housing units. 

International affairs were also on the agenda, with Singh calling the conflict in Gaza a genocide, Carney calling for an immediate ceasefire and a resumption of aid, and Poilievre coming out in support of a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine.  

Toward the end of the debate, candidates discussed gun control, crime and the notwithstanding clause. Poilievre said his government would use the notwithstanding clause to enact tough-on-crime policies. “In fact, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms exists to protect Canadians from people like us on the stage, politicians who may use their power to override fundamental rights,” Carney argued, before the four leaders made their final pitch to voters. 

The full debate can be watched on the CBC website. Advance polls begin this week; the final day of voting is April 28.

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Why (almost) everything is Ronald Reagan’s fault

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Ronald Reagan’s policies have inflicted incredible damages on the American people and economy. Graphic Olivia Shan

Geneviève Sylvestre,
Local Journalism Initiative

How today’s extreme class disparity and economic instability can be traced back to the 1980s

In the ‘80s, the United States’ 40th president Ronald Reagan pushed social and economic plans that laid the groundwork for Donald Trump’s presidencies and growing social inequalities.

Inaugurated in 1981, the actor-turned-politician left a permanent stain on America, from his refusal to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic, leading to the deaths of thousands, to his economic policies strengthening class divides.

Still revered by modern-day conservatives, “Reaganomics,” based in supply-side economics, is an economic model based on cutting taxes for corporations and the highest-earners as well as deregulating industry, slowing spending on social programs and putting a higher emphasis on free trade. The reason: the belief that it would stimulate the economy by encouraging the rich to invest and having the money “trickle-down” to the consumers.

“Reaganomics” was mostly based on the theories of economist Arthur Laffer, who served as the chief economist for the US Office of Management and Budget from 1970 to 1972. Known as the father of supply-side economics, he created the Laffer curve, an economic theory outlining the presence of an optimal tax rate and how rising taxes too high can lead to a decrease in government revenue.

Laffer not only had a huge influence on Reagan, but he continues to be a key figure in conservative economic policy to this day. Indeed, he served as Trump’s economic advisor during his first term, with Trump awarding him the medal of freedom in 2019.

Reagan inherited an America suffering from high inflation and unemployment, which he promised to fix with his supply-side economic plan. Early in his first term, Reagan passed the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (ERTA), cutting taxes for the highest earning Americans by 20 per cent.

He implemented massive cuts to social welfare programs, like federal student loans, and increased military spending. He deregulated healthcare, shifting the financial risks from private insurance providers to hospitals and doctors, which still impacts the system today.

His tight economic policy spurred a short six-month recession from 1981 to 1982. According to the Pew Research Center, 54 per cent of Americans in September 1982 agreed that Reagan’s policies had made their financial situation worse, although many believed it would improve.

As such, despite being known for tax-cutting, Reagan was forced to raise taxes across the board in 1982,1983,1984 and 1987, effectively cutting the intended effect of the ERTA in half. While he managed to lower inflation and unemployment, by the end of his tenure, the government deficit had tripled.

This is not a uniquely American system. “Iron Lady” Margaret Thatcher was the prime minister of the United Kingdom during Reagan’s presidency and implemented similar supply-side policies.

Now, unsurprisingly, researchers have shown that extreme tax cuts for the rich did not greatly impact a country’s gross domestic product. It only served to widen the gap between the lowest and highest earners in a society.

Essentially, it allowed the rich to get richer while gutting the middle class.

It’s simple math: If the government collects less tax revenue from the rich, it must recuperate the money somewhere else, either through taxes to the lower and middle classes or slashes in government spending.

As such, George H. W. Bush raised taxes in 1990 despite famously promising not to do so, in part due to the large deficit Reagan left behind. In 1993, Bill Clinton raised the marginal tax rate for the highest-earning Americans when he took office.

With the “dot-com” recession of 2001 at the start of George W. Bush’s first term, the US went back to Reagan-esque supply-side economic tax cuts. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, this mainly benefited wealthy Americans.

Data shows that economic and investment growth in the US was lower under supply-side economic policies than in the 1990s.

These conservative economic models have also poisoned the Democratic party which, for decades, has been scrambling to the centre in an attempt to secure votes by pushing neoliberal economic policies.

In a column for PBS News, American economic historian John Komlos demonstrated how the post-tax income of the middle class from 1979 to 2011 barely grew when adjusted for inflation, while the top 1 per cent lined their pockets.

Simply put, the benefit of supply-side economics for everyone but the top 1 per cent is nothing more than a myth, a bedside story Conservative politicians keep peddling to line their own pockets.

Unfortunately, the stories worked, with The Guardian reporting that, in his first term, Trump’s tax-cuts led to billionaires paying less in taxes than the working class.

Researcher David Hope—who wrote a paper analyzing the effects of major tax cuts in 18 countries—said in an article for the London School of Economics and Political Science that he could not find any evidence that Trump’s 2017 tax-cut plan would help fuel the economy.

Trump points to immigrants as the reason why so many Americans are struggling, but the truth is that years of placing corporate greed first have landed everyone in this mess. Trump has, time and time again, implemented policies and cuts to advantage his rich peers while perpetuating harm against marginalized communities in America.

Trump’s most recent inauguration brought the idea of supply-side economics to its logical extreme, with billionaires sitting in the front row while his cabinet members sat behind them. All the while, since he got his foot through the doors of the Oval Office, Elon Musk has been slashing government funding left and right. This was despite his companies benefiting massively from government funding.

The income inequality in the US is the highest of all the G7 countries.

Let this be a cautionary tale.

On this side of the border, populist politician Pierre Poilievre is promising to implement similar economic policies, slashing government budgets, gutting social programs and cutting taxes as solutions to the raising cost of living. It won’t work.

The economic state of a country is much more complex than its tax system. But cutting taxes for the rich and slashing government spending has not only proven itself ineffective in helping the economy, it has shown to only deepen class disparities and inequalities.

It’s not common sense; it’s dangerous.

This article originally appeared in Volume 45, Issue 10, published March 4, 2025.

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La Pocatière mayor “clarifies” tramway stance for Poilievre

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La Pocatière mayor ‘clarifies’ stance on tramway for Poilievre 

Peter Black, Local Journalism Initiative reporter

peterblack@qctonline.com

The mayor of La Pocatière is “clarifying” his town’s stance on Quebec City’s tramway project in the wake of comments made by federal Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre.

During a visit to Rivière-du-Loup on Jan, 22, Poilievre had applauded a resolution adopted a week earlier by the MRC of Kamouraska, which includes La Pocatière, in support of the so-called third link project championed by the Coalition Avenir Québec government.

Poilievre, in the view of La Pocatière town council, had apparently misinterpreted the resolution to suggest the MRC, while supporting the “third link,” opposed Quebec City’s tramway plan.

In a statement sent to the QCT, Mayor Vincent Bérubé said, “We stand in solidarity with our interregional counterparts, but our openness to the third

link is not a rejection of the Quebec [City] tramway project, which would ultimately limit road congestion and reduce the impact on the environment.”

In fact, the mayor noted, La Pocatière would benefit substantially from the tramway project, with the Alstom plant – formerly a Bombardier factory – a major employer in the town of 4,000.

Although the contract with Alstom to build the cars for the tramway, valued at about $569 million, has not been reconfirmed under the most recent version of the project, it’s expected the company, whose largest shareholder is Quebec’s pension fund, the Caisse de dépôt et placement, will get the work. 

Bérubé said it “is obvious that this project has a special resonance given the presence of the Alstom plant in La Pocatière. The economic spinoffs are also felt in the territory of the MRCs of Kamouraska and L’Islet, since many workers live in these regions and several companies that subcontract with Alstom have a presence in the region.”

In his statement, the mayor invited the local Conservative MP, Bernard Généreux (Montmagny–L’Islet–Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup), “to facilitate a meeting with Mr. Poilievre, in order to present our regional economic ecosystem and to take the pulse, on the ground, of the importance of companies involved in the rail transportation industry.”

La Pocatière is some 120 kilometres east of Quebec City on the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River.

                     

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Poilievre holding West Island rally Dec. 13

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By: Joel Goldenberg
The Suburban

Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is returning to the Montreal area for a “Common Sense” rally being held at noon Friday Dec. 13. The rally is being held at the Sources Mega Centre at 2325 Trans Canada Highway, at the Sources exit off Autoroute 40. Poilievre has made numerous appearances in the Montreal, including the West Island, the Mount Royal riding and other locales.

The event is being held at a time when, according to recent polls, the Conservatives are far ahead of the Trudeau Liberals nationally, and according to recent numbers on 338Canada, the Conservatives and Liberals were tied at 39 percent in the usual Liberal stronghold of Mount Royal — the riding has been declared a toss-up between the two parties. The Liberals recently lost two strongholds, LaSalle—Émard—Verdun in Montreal to the Bloc Québécois and Toronto—St. Paul’s to the Conservatives.

In the West Island, in Pierrefonds-Dollard, the Liberals are ahead 36 percent to 35 percent for the Conservatives, and the riding has been declared a toss-up. in Dorval-Lachine-LaSalle, the Liberals were ahead 31 to 22 percent, and this riding has been declared Liberal likely. In Lac St. Louis, the Liberals are ahead 36 to 31 percent, and the riding has been declared Liberal leaning. Further to the west, in Vaudreuil, the Liberals are ahead 31 percent to 28 percent for the Bloc Québécois and has been declared Liberal leaning.

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Poilievre presents Neil Oberman as Mount Royal candidate in major rally

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By Joel Goldenberg
The Suburban

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and new Mount Royal Conservative candidate Neil Oberman received a massive welcome in the Mount Royal riding Wednesday night, with a crowd that was packed to the rafters at the Grover Auditorium at the Y in Snowdon. Also on hand were Deputy Conservative Leader MP Melissa Lantsman from Toronto, MP Pierre Paul-Hus from the Quebec City area and MP Marty Morantz from Winnipeg, as well as Poilievre’s wife Anaida and their children.

Oberman is the senior partner at Spiegel Sohmer who has sent legal warnings to universities to protect Jewish students, and filed six successful injunctions keeping anti-Israel protesters well away from Jewish institutions. He is challenging Liberal incumbent Anthony Housefather, who recently considered changing parties after a recent vote regarding the Israel-Gaza war, but elected to remain with his party.

Oberman, a Mount Royal riding resident and former Côte St. Luc municipal candidate, told the cheering crowd, “I will represent Mount Royal as if you are my family!

“I’m running for Parliament not because I have to, not because I need to, it’s because I want to!” he added. “There are hateful divisions. I don’t recognize the Canada that I love! We have to stop it and we’re going to stop it!”

Oberman said Housefather “can no longer dodge responsibility for his decisions to keep in power the most anti-Israel Prime Minister Canada has ever seen!”

“Shame!” yelled the crowd.

Poilievre spoke to the crowd about such election issues as crime, the housing crisis and the carbon tax.

“After nine years of Justin Trudeau, here in Montreal, a city that has given him unquestioned support for his entire career, what have been the results, my friends?!.. We see the crime and chaos, crime is raging out of control after nine years of Trudeau!”

Poilievre also spoke about the many antisemitic incidents, including Jewish schools being fired upon and Molotov cocktails being thrown at Jewish institutions, that have taken place since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.

“It wasn’t like this before Justin Trudeau! There have been many wars in the Middle East, but that violence did not pour over into the streets of Canada, because we had an understanding that we leave those troubles behind, and when we come here, we are all Canadians!….After nine years of Trudeau, everything is broken! Life was not like this before Justin Trudeau and it won’t be like this after Justin Trudeau!”

Poilievre praised Oberman as a “straight-talking no-nonsense local lawyer who has taken it upon himself to file injunctions against Hamas-inspired hate camps and is standing up for the rights of Jewish students to study without fear!

“But that’s not all! He’s fighting back against red tape for small businesses, for lower taxes for their workers, opportunities for the next generation to own a home. This is the type of champion [we need]! Justin Trudeau has taken Montrealers for granted long enough!” n

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Poilievre receives thunderous welcome in Mount Royal

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By Joel Goldenberg
The Suburban

Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre received a thunderous welcome during his standing-room only speech at Côte St. Luc’s Beth Israel Beth Aaron Synagogue March 26, which attracted some 1,400 people who gave Poilievre numerous standing ovations and waited in line for hours to take a picture with him.

It was so large, that it prompted prominent Conservative supporter Anthony Koch to tweet Liberal MP Anthony Housefather, currently reflecting on his future with the Liberals, about it. Hampstead Mayor Jeremy Levi replied, “I have no doubt our riding (Mount Royal) is going blue in a very big way!” And when Housefather earlier posted about “hopping from one party to the other” during Purim, Levi replied, “hopping from one party to the other is fun indeed (even when it’s not Purim!)” Previously, Levi posted that he was endorsing the Mount Royal Conservative candidate, and he was hoping it would be Housefather.

The federal Conservative leader, currently riding high in the polls, was joined at the synagogue by Conservatives Senator Leo Housakos and Quebec City-area MP Pierre Paul-Hus, and many other notables.

Before Poilievre spoke, Federation CJA board chair Steve Sebag condemned the passage of the recent “disgraceful” Liberal-NDP motion on the Israel-Hamas conflict, and lauded the Conservatives for their unanimous No vote. “Your moral clarity and steadfast support of the Jewish people in Israel is deeply needed and appreciated in these dark hours,” Sebag added. “Thank you for your friendship.”

The Conservative leader, who has visited Israel, said “the Jewish people are the only people I know of who, in the same language, worship the same faith, on the same land, in the same country as they did 3,000 years ago. That is a true indigenous people!” Thunderous applause followed.

Turning to current events, Poilievre said that “We know, since the [Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel], it has been necessary for us to turn our attention to the defense of our shared values, our eternal values.” He pointed out that before the attack, Israel had achieved peace through the Abraham Accords with several Arab countries, and it looked like Saudi Arabia might be next.

“Could you imagine what a breakthrough for peace it would have been?! This would have charted in a new era of peace and friendship among all of the Abrahamic peoples! It was this hope that most terrified the terrorists who carried out their attack on Oct. 7 and, more importantly, the state sponsors who orchestrated it all out of Tehran. They worried that their mission to destroy the Jewish people and Israel would be mortally wounded, their mission would be impossible, if Muslims and Jews were able to unite together in peace. What scared them even more was the possibility that the Palestinians had a hopeful future, a vested interest in the days ahead of them.”

Poilievre also pointed out that Hamas had total independence to run Gaza, as Israel had pulled out all Jews from the area in 2005. “When they say, ‘end the occupation’, in Gaza, the only occupier was Iran. Iran was occupying Gaza through its intermediary, Hamas!…And so they orchestrated the attack. The Hamas leaders travelled to Tehran, they got weapons and funding, and ultimately coordination. I’m sorry, but I refuse to believe that ragtag terrorists in Gaza were able to accumulate all of those weapons and all of that intelligence and coordination on their own! This was an outside job!”

Poilievre said Iran’s involvement “forms our policy as a country towards Tehran, and its terror arm, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC murdered 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents by firing an unprovoked missile at a civilian commercial aircraft, PS 752, over three years ago. This group can recruit, coordinate, mobilize, fundraise legally on Canadian soil. What is our Prime Minister thinking?! It’s time to ban the IRGC!”

Poilievre said he would also pressure the Trudeau government to streamline funding for the security infrastructure program, “so that shuls and all places of worship can put up the security to protect their people. I think it is appalling synagogues and churches are buried in paperwork for what what should be a very simple rebate program!” Poilievre also promised, to very long and sustained applause, that his party will stand with Jewish students on campuses, “fighting antisemitism at universities. We will also go line by line through all the groups that get dollars from the federal government and defund every single one of those that promote antisemitism in our country!…. We will continue to stand up for the right of Israel to defend itself and reject any motions and resolutions before the UN that unfairly target the Jewish State!”

Poilievre says he conveys the same message in mosques. “I say ‘I’m a friend of the State of Israel,’ and I will be a friend of Israel everywhere I go.

“Conservatives will stand with you! You are not alone in these struggles, you have friends!….I want you to look at the echo of the unmatched history of the eternal Jewish people!…The trashcan of history is filled with those who have tried and failed to destroy the Jewish people! I don’t know what will happen next year, or in a hundred years but I know that in a thousand years whatever is going on, on Fridays as the sun goes down, there will be Shabbat in Israel! The Jewish people will still go on, and they will say “am Yisrael Chai!” n

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Poilievre addresses housing crisis in Pointe Claire visit

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By Chelsey St-Pierre

Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre held a news conference in the Fairview Pointe-Claire shopping centre’s parking lot as part of a series of stops where he shed light on hyper-local issues causing delays in housing projects affecting the overall Canadian housing crisis.

Tens of thousands of housing units have been stalled in the Greater Montreal Area, which caught the attention of the Federal Conservative leader. In January, he declared Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante to be “incompetent”, as she continues to stall development.

Poilievre criticized the City of Pointe-Claire for blocking the Cadillac Fairview development plan for part of the mall’s parking lot. “Local bureaucracy is blocking that construction that would allow seniors and students to live next to a massive transit station.”

Pointe-Claire Mayor Tim Thomas disagreed, stating that he was elected for the purpose of slowing down development. “Too many housing units have been built without much thought given to the best way to design the urban fabric. This is sensible, responsible urban planning in a community where developers have been given too many red carpets, and not enough red tape,” Thomas wrote in response to Poilievre’s visit.

One thing Poilievre and Thomas agreed on is that the green space for Fairview Forest should remain untouched in the development plan. Cadillac Fairview’s proposal includes two 25-storey residential towers as part of a first phase and single family units in lieu of the green space as part of the second phase. Both phases of the proposed development project were stalled by an interim control bylaw issued in the spring of 2022.

Poilievre said the City of Pointe-Claire could have managed the development better. He stated that under the Conservative government, all new transit projects would be required to include a housing component. “Trudeau has caused this problem by funding local bureaucracies that block homebuilding,” Poilievre told reporters. “Building homes is a 911 emergency and I have a good-sense plan to get it done.”

Poilievre’s plan includes proposed incentives for municipalities who reach development goals and penalties for municipalities that score below the calculated rate of target development. The calculation would include consideration for the size of the municipality while considering the effect and contribution to the overall economy. n

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