January 31, 2026 • Calgary, Alberta
FROZEN IN TIME: Smith’s Speech Replays Trudeau Grievances, Mutes the Previous Year - Speech Infograph
DEFENDING THE WEST, RESTORING ORDER, AND A RETURN TO CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES
📝 FHarbour
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87%
Leadership Mandate
Pierre Poilievre's vote share in leadership review
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10 Years
Federal Overreach
Decade of Liberal-NDP policies targeting the West
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Nation-Building
Pipeline Priority
Conservatives' commitment to build pipelines in all directions
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Safety First
Public Order
Focus on fixing bail, funding police, and addiction treatment
- Alberta as the "heartland of conservatism in Canada"
- Legacy of conservative leaders from Manning and Klein to Harper
- For 10 years, a federal government that "did everything he could to devastate the West"
- A "left-wing activist coalition government" of Trudeau and Singh attacking provincial jurisdiction
- Opposition to the production cap on the Alberta oil sands and moratorium on pipelines
- Criticism of appointing a "Greenpeace activist" (Steven Guilbeault) in charge of economy
- Conservatives believe in "getting out of the way of investment and projects"
- Plan to build a new pipeline to the West Coast and pipelines "to the west, east, north, and south"
- Enhancing economic opportunity for indigenous communities through ownership stakes
- Federal government "ramped up immigration to an entirely unsustainable level"
- Need to return to the "world-renowned system" under Prime Minister Stephen Harper
- Opposition to "woke ideological justice policies" like safe supply of drugs and soft-on-crime bail
- Support for funding police (not defunding), justice for victims, and addiction treatment
- Addressing smuggling of illegal guns instead of punishing law-abiding firearm owners
- Stance that "biological men do not belong in women's sports"
- Pierre Poilievre and Conservatives "believe in our constitution" and leaving provinces to be provinces
- Federal government should focus on core duties like bail reform and supporting jobs
- Leadership with "moral clarity" and a plan to restore Canada's economic leadership
- A promise that "if you work hard you can get ahead"
- Confidence that Poilievre will "lead the Conservatives back to victory in the next election"
KEY QUOTES
"We need to build pipelines to the west, to the east, to the north, and to the south."
"I would love, as the prime minister said, for pipelines to be boring again."
"The rapid and unsustainable rate at which the federal government increased immigration... has damaged public programs and our economy."
"Biological men do not belong in women's sports. Period."
"If you work hard you can get ahead."
Conservative Party
Pierre Poilievre
Alberta
oil sands
pipelines
federalism
immigration
public safety
bail reform
women's sports
Justin Trudeau
NDP
Stephen Harper