Federal Conservative management candidate Jean Charest is pushing again on claims made by his rival Pierre Poilievre that he's a Liberal, calling the allegation “ludicrous.”
“When (Poilievre) says I’m a Liberal, is there anybody within the nation that does not already know that I went to Quebec politics to combat the separatists’ trigger in a coalition get together that was known as the Liberal Get together, as is that this case in British Columbia,” mentioned Charest, in an interview airing Sunday morning on CTV’s Query Interval with Evan Solomon.
Poilievre and his surrogates have been making an attempt to color Charest as a Liberal, because of Charest serving because the Quebec premier from 2003 till 2012 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Get together.
“I simply respectfully disagree along with his choice to lift the gross sales tax when he was a Liberal premier. He additionally introduced in a carbon tax that makes life dearer,” Poilievre mentioned in an interview with CP24, including that the federal Conservatives wanted a “true conservative” to steer the get together.
Charest was additionally the chief of the federal Progressive Conservative Get together from 1993 to 1998 and held a number of portfolios within the Brian Mulroney authorities, together with deputy prime minister.
Charest mentioned he relishes the assaults from Poilievre, who has been considered because the front-runner to develop into the subsequent Conservative chief.
“I take it as a praise given the truth that (Poilievre) is spending extra time attacking me than really doing his personal marketing campaign,” mentioned Charest.
Poilievre additionally attacked Charest for his work within the personal sector, together with offering recommendation to Chinese language telecom firm Huawei on the Meng Wanzhou case, whereas Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor have been in jail.
Charest dismissed the claims. “Let me put it very merely: the work that I did helped launch the 2 Michaels,” mentioned Charest, including that he labored immediately with the household of Michael Kovrig to assist get him launched.
Charest additionally took his first main swing of the race at Poilievre, saying that he wouldn’t really comply with by on a core marketing campaign promise to rescind the carbon tax if elected prime minister.
“(Poilievre) mentioned he’d scrap the carbon tax, and the final time I heard that was Jean Chretien saying he was going to scrap the GST. Draw your personal conclusion.”
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