'Your land is your land', Poilievre tells Kelowna crowd

The Canadian economy will collapse if courts assert the primacy of Indigenous land claims over private property rights, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre warns.

The federal government must vigorously defend existing systems of land ownership which Poilievre says are at risk as a result of recent decisions.

“The federal government has to make a clear and decisive argument in the courts in favour of fee simple property rights,” Poilievre said Thursday in Kelowna. “If we do not have fee simple property rights, our entire economy is going to collapse.”

“Your land is your land. You buy a house, you own the land, it belongs to you. No one can take it away,” Poilievre said. “The federal government needs to fearlessly argue that before the courts. And the judges better realize the massive, i