Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, who grew up in Calgary, is spending the weekend in the city to take in the Stampede.<\/p>\n
He also spoke to supporters at Heritage Park Saturday night, where he addressed the Oct. 19 referendum and Alberta separatism.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will fight for Canada,\u201d Poilievre said. \u201cIncluding in the upcoming referendum to win back Albertans…through hope, not by wagging our fingers or lecturing them, nor by threatening. We want to be respectful to people in both sides of this debate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are legitimate points of view to go around,\u201d he added, \u201cand while i have been very clear that I will always stand for a united Canada, we will always be willing to listen to the views and address the legitimate concerns of people who are involved in this debate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to ensure that when this is all over, we will once again be fully united as citizens of a common land dedicated to a common purpose of restoring the promise of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Poilievre also referenced the recently signed pipeline deal, calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to end the tanker ban off the coast of northern B.C., which he says blocks Alberta oil from Pacific waters.<\/p>\n
He said Carney\u2019s government isn\u2019t doing enough to end the affordability crisis and it continues to struggle in trade talks with the U.S.<\/p>\n
With files from CTV News\u2019 Darren Wright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, who grew up in Calgary, is spending the weekend in the city to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[712,49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-783105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}