Here’s What Pierre Poilievre Told Jordan Peterson

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Here’s What Pierre Poilievre Told Jordan Peterson

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Jen St. Denis - January 8, 2025 - The Tyee

EXCERPT: "The Conservative leader focuses on one industry in particular as the way to create jobs and economic growth — the energy sector, which for Poilievre includes oil and gas as well as new nuclear power plants.

“We could be powering these data centres with Canadian natural gas generators,” Poilievre said, marvelling at how much more energy is required to power a ChatGPT search versus a standard internet search.

“With nuclear, we have the biggest supply of uranium and we invented the CANDU reactor. We have these incredible nuclear physicists and engineers — 60 per cent of Ontario’s energy already comes from nuclear. So we could be powering these facilities.”

Poilievre has made a promise to end the federal carbon tax a central part of his party’s platform. In the interview with Peterson, he called people concerned about climate change “environmental loons that hate our energy.” . . . .

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