Meeting Updates of Pierre Poilievre with Mark Carney

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00:00So why not press him a little bit further on it?

00:03Well, I didn't expect I would get an answer to that question in this meeting.

00:07And if I did, I'm not going to repeat things he said to me in private anyway.

00:11There seems to be like a shift in the narrative where it used to be the job of the government was in a minority situation,

00:16was to convince the opposition to support the budget.

00:19And instead it's become, it is the opposition's fault if you don't support the budget.

00:24And I just wonder if you could reflect on that tension,

00:26like this idea that if Canadians truly do expect in a minority situation everybody to work together,

00:31then where is it with all your parties to sort of sit down and hammer this out?

00:36Or who owns that ultimately?

00:39I think it will be up to the Canadian people to judge when they see the substance and measure it against the votes.

00:45But what I've tried to do is be fair-minded in just holding him to the promises that he made.

00:50You know, it was a year ago the Liberals promised this year's deficit would only be $42 billion.

00:54So I don't think it's that unreasonable to expect that they would keep that cap.

00:57He said he would be judged by the prices at the grocery store.

01:00Well, those prices are rising at 4% now, twice the Bank of Canada's target rate.

01:04My goal is to bring that food price inflation down.

01:09He said that he would create jobs.

01:13So we're putting forward policies that would actually do that.

01:15So I think we've been very reasonable in basically assisting that the Prime Minister live up to the very big promises that he made of himself.

01:25And for me, the biggest and most important promise of it all is that people can actually start to afford their lives again.

01:31Do you get the sense he wants an election out of this?

01:34We didn't discuss that.

01:36All right. Thanks very much, everybody.

01:38Thank you very much.