Pierre Poilievre, who is the front runner in the Conservative Party leadership race, says he will remove the gatekeepers that are standing in the way of the success of Canadian immigrants. He also wants  to fight inflation by capping Government spending, eliminating the carbon, tax pressuring cities to speed up how housing construction, and also pressuring provinces to speed up recognition of immigrant credentials so that doctors who come here to this country can get a job working in medicine rather than being shut out by the government gatekeeper. He also wants to open the door of opportunity to all  including new Canadians to fulfill their potential through hard work and through merit.

These announcements were made in an exclusive interview with Mr Rajinder Saini, President and CEO of Parvasi Media.

Here are the excerpts from the interview conducted at the Parvasi Media House:

Rajinder Saini: Here we have our special guest, Mr. Pierre Poilievre, first of all, welcome to our studio.

Pierre Poilievre: Thank you for having me.

Rajinder Saini: This was a long due visit, here in the studio, welcome to Peel region, you have been here a couple of times during your campaign. My first question is that you have been meeting Canadians coast to coast, province to province, meeting them, trying to know what their issues are, and if you are elected as a leader how you are going to solve them, deal with them, so What is your experience so far while working in this campaign?

Pierre Poilievre: Well, first of all, congratulations on the 20-year anniversary you recently celebrated here. My experience on the campaign trail is that Canadians feel like they have lost control of their lives, whether it’s the 35-year-old stuck living in his parent’s basement because house prices have risen so much, it is over $1,000,000 for a home in Brampton now, or it could be the single mom who can't afford food for her kids or because the working class guy who cannot  put gas in his truck because  it is now over $2 a liter in some places. What we have here is a massive inflation that is taking away people’s buying power and causing them to lose control of their daily decisions. The cost of government is driving up the cost of living, half a trillion dollars of government deficits have driven more dollars chasing fewer goods which leads to higher prices, inflationary taxes are driving up the cost of businesses to make the goods and services that we require. So, the more Trudeau spends the more things cost, it’s Justin inflation. Justin inflation is inflation caused by Justin Trudeau and we need to reverse it so I what I am saying is that it is time to make the government affordable by capping government spending, getting rid of the carbon tax to lower gas prices, and removing the gatekeepers so that we can build more homes, grow more affordable food, and produce more Canadian energy here in this country. Those things will make life more affordable and our dollars go further.

Rajinder Saini: You have been representing riding of Carleton for more than now 18 years, since 2004 you are a member of Parliament, two-time minister also, how you think it’s going to help you if you are being elected as the new leader of the party?

Pierre Poilievre: Well, I’m undefeated in seven elections, I’ve never lost and have won the support of a multicultural big city riding over the last decade, more than decade and a half almost two decades, and that means that I have the ability to represent people of all backgrounds and to champion them. You know Canadians feel like they’ve lost control of their lives they want someone who will fight for their freedom and give them back control of their lives and that’s what I intend to do as the leader of the conservative party in the Prime Minister of Canada.

Rajinder Saini: Yesterday our Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland was in Brampton at a trucking companies office, I asked her a question, 2 million applications are pending to be processed at the various visa centers and we have more than half million people, shortage of work force, so how are you going to deal with that? The answer was: we don’t have enough houses, if people come here, how are going to accommodate them? So, people are, I mean particularly small-scale businesses, they’re struggling, they don’t have a workforce they don’t have workers to work, so how if you (are) elected as the leader or if (you) become Prime Minister in due course of time, how are you going to deal with that?

Pierre Poilievre: Well, you’ve raised two issues, one is housing and the other is the immigration backlog. So, let’s start with housing, we have the fewest houses per capita in the G7 even though We have the most land to build on because government gatekeepers block construction. We rank 35 out of 36 OECD nations for the time it takes to get a building permit, you can’t get a building permit you can’t build a house, so I’m going to require large cities that have overpriced real estate to get out of the way and let builders build more houses -fast affordable building permits to get more housing. I’m going to ensure that the number of infrastructure dollars a big city gets depends on the number of houses they allow to be built and that will incentivize more home building. I’m going to sell off 15% of the federal buildings to convert them into housing, there’s 37,000 federal buildings so we could sell off thousands of those buildings to turn them into housing. Finally, I’m going to require that every single federally funded transit station must come with approved high-density housing around each station so that you have high rises so that young people can get on the elevator from their apartment and get right down to the to the train and go off without a car. That’s how we’re going to get more housing, remove the gatekeepers that are preventing building and then immigration, look we need the workforce, we have a million job vacancies in Canada. One of the reasons we can’t build things is we don’t have enough tradespeople to build them. So, we need to fast track skilled immigration to Canada and the best way to do it is to expand express entry, so when an employer has a job opening and gives a job offer to a future immigrant they can get here quickly, within a few weeks, get them a work permit, then allow them to apply and become permanent residents and eventually citizens, (do it very quickly). We should also allow temporary foreign workers who proven that they follow the law, they pay their taxes, to graduate into permanency so they can stay here and then eventually sponsor their families to do the same thing. That’s how we’re going to fill the shortage in our workforce, by inviting hardworking skilled immigrants whose abilities are needed in our workforce.

Rajinder Saini: I asked you this question last time and I am repeating it again, there’s a perception that (the) conservative party is not pro-immigrant, so how are you going to deal with this question?

Pierre Poilievre: Well, that that is a false perception. I am pro-immigration. My wife is a refugee to Canada from Venezuela. Canada needs immigration to fulfill its economic success and so our party will put forward a pro-immigration platform in the next election and we will fight for immigrants by pressuring the current government to remove the backlog and increase processing time so we can get families united, refugees safe, and jobs filled here in Canada.

Rajinder Saini: So, for the third time we have a minority government in the country and the people are now thinking that Mr. Trudeau is tired. We don't see that much energy in him and his team now and people are looking for a change there's no question about that. We are grassroot people and we can tell you that is what the feeling in the in the public’s mind is now -we need a change in the government. Previous two leaders, Andrew Scheer, with all due respect, and Erin O’Toole, they couldn't connect to the new Canadians, so Pierre Poilievre, how are you going to win over them, that's my question?

Pierre Poilievre: I am going to address the problems facing their lives, I mean if youre a new immigrant to Canada the biggest obstacle right now you;re facing is how do I get a house? Its a million dollars plus for a home in Brampton. If youre new to Canada and not had a chance to build up $200,000 for a down payment then you cant buy a home, but how would you save up for a down payment when youre spending $2 a liter on gas or youre spending an extra $2,000 a year on food, its impossible. So, I want to remove the gatekeepers that are standing in the way of the success of Canadian immigrants. Im going to fight inflation by capping government spending, eliminating the carbon, tax pressuring cities to speed up how housing construction, and also pressuring provinces to speed up recognition of immigrant credentials so that doctors who come here to this country can get a job working in medicine rather than being shut out by the government gatekeeper. So, Im going to open the door of opportunity to all Canadians including new Canadians to fulfill their potential through hard work and through merit.

Rajinder Saini: We have problem for the passports now, theres a long line/queue for the passports, we have chaos at the airports, similarly the inflation is sky high now, so how you are going to deal with that? Whenever we ask ministers about this all theyre saying is that theyre hiring more people, Mr. Alghabra was saying we have problem with the screeners, were trying to recruit more and more people, but at this time when European families are traveling, its vacation time, tons of problems people are facing now. So, if you were elected as the Prime Minister of this country, how is your government going to deal with all these issues? We understand that many of them are related to the pandemic also but the government must be prepared for this situation.

Pierre Poilievre: You know what, I do not accept that excuse anymore. Look the pandemic started back in 2020, the beginning of 2020, we are halfway through 2022 now, it is not an excuse anymore. Truck drivers are delivering their goods, waitresses are serving their customers, why can not the government serve Canadians? By the way most of the backlogs are in departments where people could do all of the same work from home. For example, immigration, they have internet systems so that the public servants can process immigration applications remotely, so, it should not be an excuse that they had Covid, that we as a country had Covid. Look at the passports. The government says that all of the passport workers are back in their offices. They also say that the number of passport application officers is equal to what it was before Covid and what we also know is that there are actually fewer people applying for passports than there were  in 2019, before Covid, so the applications are down from the pre-Covid level. So, we have got fewer people applying, just as many public servants and yet the wait times are so long people have to camp in tents at government buildings. This is total government incompetence that starts with Justin Trudeau, he does not want to do the hard work of running a government, what he wants to do is be a world celebrity traveling around, doing selfies around the world, rather than doing the hard work of running a competent government and the result is airports that do not work, passports you can not get, immigration applications that are now two million behind, that is the result of an incompetent government led by gatekeepers who are standing in the way of Canadians.

Rajinder Saini: There is another important question related to our community, Ukrainians have been brought in here, Syrians were brought in here, I know conservative leaders were also supporting Hindu’s and Sikh families in Afghanistan. They are not very high in number, now hardly 200 people are left there, they are vulnerable, many of them died during last blast, the Gurdwaras are under attack, cats and dogs have been brought in from Afghanistan but not all these human beings. So, what is the stand of conservative party? I mean government is now assuring us that yes, they are working on that but it is more than four or five years since the demand has been made.

Pierre Poilievre: Sorry, which demand are you asking about?

Rajinder Saini: Afghanistan, Sikh, and Hindu’s, only 200 people are left in Afghanistan, they are vulnerable, so why do not we bring them here?

Pierre Poilievre: That is a very good question. I mean the government has not even successfully brought the interpreters who risked their lives to help Canadians when we were fighting in Afghanistan. There are still some interpreters that have not been brought to Canada, even after those people sacrificed their own safety to help Canadian soldiers carry out their mission on our behalf. So, again it is total incompetence on the part of the Trudeau government, they are not prepared to do the hard administrative work of running a government and as a result we have people like you mentioned Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan but other people around the world who are languishing and waiting for a chance to apply and come to Canada to live in safety and peace. These are very real consequences for Justin Trudeau’s incompetence Rajinder Saini: Now, coming back to your campaign, last night we got the biggest news that Patrick Brown has been thrown out of the race by the party because of financial regularities and many other reasons. His campaign is saying that they are going to get legal course for that, they are going to contest, they are going to fight for that. I am not going to ask you to indulge in this issue, but still I mean you were claiming that out of 600,000 members your campaign team could sign more than 300,000 members, any comment on this development of this campaign?

Pierre Poilievre: Well, nobody should be surprised that Patrick Brown is again accused of breaking rules. This is the same Patrick Brown who was found guilty of violating the ethics laws of Ontario when he was in the provincial legislature, he was found to have accepted a $375,000 loan that he had covered up. He was ousted as leader of the progressive conservatives for scandal, then the progressive conservative party in Ontario refused to even accept him as a candidate because of his past conduct and now as you know he is engulfed in a big scandal at Brampton City Hall involving Brampton University and City Council is now paralyzed because of his scandals there. So, it is not surprising that somebody has unearthed more allegations against him and he should be accountable for his own conduct and stop blaming others. As for me I am focused on continuing to present my vision, giving Canadians back control of their lives, letting Canada become the freest nation on earth so that people can earn big, powerful, inflation-proof paychecks and afford a good life that they deserve in this country.

Rajinder Saini: Many people were thinking you are a frontrunner already, now, Patrick Brown, if he is out of the race, what do you think, what are your chances to become the party leader?

Pierre Poilievre: I don't ever take anything for granted. We did sell 312,000 memberships which is an all-time record for any leadership candidate but it is still two more months to go and we must never take anything for granted, we must continue to work hard, sell more memberships, make the arguments, and win over Canadians.

Rajinder Saini: There is an allegation by Patrick Brown’s campaign that there’s a coronation of Mr. Pierre Poilievre, party has already made up their mind and they mischievously threw us out of the race.

Pierre Poilievre: Patrick Brown has a long history of lying to Canadians, lying to the people of Brampton, he has a long track record of scandal and it’s no surprise that he is trying to lash out and blame other people for his misconduct -that’s what he always does.

Rajinder Saini: My last question, we have a deficit of more than $450 billion in this country, lots of challenges which we were discussing earlier in this interview, if elected as the leader of the party and if you become the Prime Minister of this country, how are you going to deal with that? It will be a very tough situation in the coming days…

Pierre Poilievre: I am going to cap government spending with a pay as you go law. So, here is how it works, under the law that I propose the government would have to find a dollar of savings for each new dollar of spending. So, if the government comes up with a new plan to spend $100 million, they will have to look in their own government spending and find $100 million of savings to pay for it. If we had that law in place right now, we would not have a deficit and that would allow Canadians to have an affordable life. What is happening is, this deficit you mentioned, is driving up the cost of everything, it is driving up interest rates and inflation no I wonder if most Canadians can not afford to pay their bills. So, we need an affordable government so that Canadians have an affordable quality of life.

Rajinder Saini: Thousands of people are listening to us at this moment and many of them will be listening later on when we will share this video with our listeners and our subscribers, what is your last message to them?

Pierre Poilievre: You are working hard and yet you can not buy a house, you struggle to buy gas and food, maybe you have kids who are 20 or 30 living in your basement because they cant afford to move out. This is not the Canada you were promised. All generations of newcomers were promised that if they came here, worked hard, followed the law, they would be able to get ahead. That promise is now broken. Justin Trudeau has made life unaffordable for you and your family its Justin inflation, inflation caused by Justin Trudeau, and we need to remove him and replace the liberals with a government that is affordable to you and your family so that your paycheck goes further and your hard work pays off.

Rajinder Saini: On 10th of September, the members of the Conservative Party of Canada are going to elect their new leader who will challenge Justin Trudeau in the next elections. Good luck to you Mr. Poilievre and thank you so much for coming to our studio.

Pierre Poilievre: Thank you for having me.

Rajinder Saini: Thanks a lot.