As Prime Minister Mark Carney gets set for his second circumnavigation of the globe in as many months, his chief political opponent will also head overseas, Global News has learned.
Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre will be in London, England, on Sunday and will then head to the German capital of Berlin, a senior official in Poilievre’s office said late Wednesday.
Details on Poilievre’s itinerary will be released shortly but the source says he is scheduled to give several speeches in addition to meeting with unnamed European officials.
It will be Poilievre’s first official overseas travel as Leader of the Official Opposition and comes while Carney is travelling to India, the first leg of a 10-day trip which will see him touch down in Australia and Japan before returning home.
It is rare — but not unprecedented — for an Opposition leader to travel abroad. In 2018, Andrew Scheer, then the Opposition leader but now the Conservative House Leader, travelled to India in the wake of a trip by Justin Trudeau to that country that produced significant controversy.
Scheer spent nine days in India and, at the time, his office said that travel was important and that “a Conservative government will dramatically expand the strategic relationship between our countries and our peoples and advance our shared security, prosperity and values. Unfortunately, Justin Trudeau’s disastrous trip to India damaged this key relationship and we must now work to repair it.”
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Carney’s trip to India will include stops in Mumbai and New Delhi, but Carney’s office is stressing that the visit will be about the Canada-India defence and security relationship.
Carney, like any Canadian prime minister, travels at taxpayers’ expense and usually, though not always, travels on a Royal Canadian Air Force plane.
Poilievre’s trip is not paid for by taxpayers.Poilievre and his staff will travel on commercial aircraft paid for by donations to the Conservative Party of Canada.
Global News has reported that Carney, in his first year, has spent significantly more time on the road than either of his two predecessors, Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper. Within his first week in office, Carney flew to London for meetings with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and, in August, he was in Berlin to meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
Merz, Starmer and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to Canada last June to participate in the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta.
Listened to your speech PP. You need to grow up. You mentioned what is legal in one place should be legal in another. Well Canadian food is packed with known carcinogens, mutagens and palm oil. Are you saying these should also be pushed on European consumers? Europe banned the former two items years ago which Canada happily pushes into children every day.
Does Poilievre have his security clearance yet? Who is he meeting with in the UK and Germany? Have they been cleared by CSIS?
All the anti-Pierre comments here because of the bought off Canadian media liberal propaganda mill.
Brainwashed viewers galore.
The CEO of the Canadian Media Producers Association stated “PM Carney, we have your back like you have ours” – no bias there. 🤣 /sarcasm.
Pierre wants to defund CBC etc. they have used “loaded words” (Google it) and subtle negative story telling & photo selection techniques to paint a negative picture of Pierre.
Judging by all the negativity here, it works well on gullible naïve people.
Fun Fact: The father of Pierre Trudeau, Charles-Emile, was a staunch CONSERVATIVE who ironically made the Trudeau family fortune by selling gas & oil products from his 30 Montréal gas stations ’empire’ that gave BOTH Pierre & Justin Trudeau their rich brat, privileged lifestyles.
Teenaged Pierre Trudeau rebelled by becoming a communist loving Liberal to rebel against his Conservative capitalist dad. Typical teen angst that he never grew out of…and that has destroyed Canada’s economy & culture and turned Canada into a broke socialist country with the lowest GDP of the G7 and dropping in rank from 9th to 27th in Quality of Life, in just 10 years of Liberal mismanagement. ⤵️
But keep voting LiEberal for more poverty and mismanagement.
Albert Einstein said, “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.”
That describes people who vote Liberal perfectly! 🧟♂️🐑😵💫🤡🙈
Are his messages in line with what is best for Canada? He is known for his “Canada is broken” rhetoric. Does he think this will this encourage foreign investments in Canada?
I hope this is planned as meaningful support for the country and what Carney is trying to do to build trade with other countries. But, honestly, it feels like a self-promotion tour, much like what MP Jamil Jivani did in the States.
PP is promoting his workout video that he made with his personal trainer/ Life partner.
I wish I was joking, this video and this little creep are so cringe.
He’ll accomplish more in a couple of days, than Carney could is all of his trips.
“I’m a somebody, you know. Just ask my former main squeeze and current senior advisor, Jenni “Robocalls” Byrne. She’ll tell you.”
Poilievre doesn’t have the security clearance to be doing this. This is not Poilievre job to go to other countries. Why is he doing this . He will sabotage everything Mr Carney is doing. Poilievre is a disgrace and needs to be stop.
Still got pro-PP Russians on here. Why? Cause they know he sucks. PP in Germany? bwahahaha
Pierre needs to meet the extremist Christine….
“Shrimp with no chance of becoming PM tries to pretend he could do the job, despite his complete incompetence.”
Yeah, he might as well. The rest are doing it. Take a junket on the taxpayer. Take a holiday and call it a trade mission. Canadian government is so dysfunctional.
What is that no-power useless complainer hoping to accomplish overseas?
lol good luck
PP will probably secure a trade deal for canada in the UK and Germany ready for when he’s PM can’t wait till Carney gets found out.
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