ANALYSIS | Poilievre isn't pivoting, but he's stepping lightly around a few things | CBC News

CBC - 01:19
Pierre Poilievre is an ideological conservative who believes there is an inherent value in lower taxes and lower public spending. The campaign platform he tabled on Tuesday broadly hews to those principles. But at least some of the debate now will involve the Conservative Party's math.

During his campaign for the Conservative leadership in 2022, Pierre Poilievre said he would never pivot.

"I am who I am," he said.

To a great degree, that has held true — despite periodic suggestions from the commentariat that he should change course.

Pierre Poilievre is an ideological conservative who believes there is an inherent value in lower taxes and lower public spending. The campaign platform he tabled on Tuesday broadly hews to those principles.

WATCH | Poilievre unveils his party's platform: 

Poilievre unveils Conservative platform focusing on spending cuts, reducing deficit

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre released the party's platform in the final week of the campaign, pledging to cut income taxes, remove the GST on new homes and reduce Canada’s existing deficit by 70 per cent.  

An income tax cut, reductions in capital gains taxes, the elimination of the GST on new homes and freezing the excise tax on alcohol would reduce federal revenues by $10.5 billion next year and by $20.6 billion in the fourth year of the Conservative plan. On the other side of the ledger, a Conservative government would in its fourth year cut $1 billion from Crown corporations (including the CBC), reduce foreign aid by $2.8 billion and cut hundreds of millions from federal programs meant to support the housing, artificial intelligence and clean tech sectors (Conservatives would no doubt argue the specific programs were waste...
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