November 1, 2025 – On a night meant to celebrate all things spooky, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is all geared up for Halloween to trick and threaten Canadians about everybody’s major s concern today - affordability.
While PM Mark Carney and his Liberal Party team are in Asia relentlessly focused on empowering Canadians by arranging trade agreements with ASEAN countries to lower costs of living for Canadians, protect the essential programs that give everyone a fair chance, and create new opportunities to help Canadians get ahead, Pierre Poilievre remains focused on rage and division on television. Every day this week, he is on TV criticizing every step PM Carney takes to build a stronger Canada. A few examples of Poilievre’s scary tricks and threats according to the Liberal Party Team are :
✅ We’re making the National School Food program permanent, to save families up to $800 a year and ensure kids can focus on what’s important – learning at school.
❌ Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives voted against it and called it “garbage.”
✅ We launched Build Canada Homes to supercharge housing construction, including deeply affordable and community housing for low-income Canadians.
❌ Pierre Poilievre called social and co-op housing “a Soviet-style takeover.”
✅ Every time our Liberal team puts forward policies that support Canadians, like affordable childcare and the Canadian Dental Care Plan,
❌ Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives fight to block them.
As leader of the opposition, Pierre Poilievre is expected to criticize whoever is in power to govern so he may just be doing his job, but even Halloweeners going around as ghosts and goblins tonight are real children. The leader of the opposition is no longer a child but childish in his anger tantrums against the Liberals who he seems to think can’t do anything right to his liking.
Editor of Canadian Filipino Net
Eleonor R. Laquian has written four bestselling books and co-authored four others with her husband, Prod Laquian. Over ten years, she served in various capacities at the University of British Columbia’s Institute of Asian Research: as manager of administration and programs, editor and chair of the publications committee, and primary researcher of its Asian Immigration to Canada project.
She did her BA degree in journalism at Maryknoll College in the Philippines, a master’s degree in public administration at the University of the Philippines, and postgraduate studies at the School of Public Communications at Boston University in the US.
Before immigrating to Canada, she worked with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, and the UN Information Center. She was a researcher and bureau manager of The New York Times in Beijing, China from 1984 to 1990. She was the first and only Filipino to conduct a nationwide survey of Filipinos in Canada, in 1972, for her master’s thesis at UP. It was published as A Study of Filipino Immigrants in Canada, 1952–1972.
She updated the survey in 2005 for a book, co-authored with her husband Prod: Seeking a Better Life Abroad: A Study of Filipinos in Canada, 1957–2007,published by Anvil Publishing in Manila. She and Prod have visited over a hundred countries for work and pleasure. They immigrated to Canada in 1969.
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