Canada's Conservative leader shuts down journalist's question about other genders: 'I'm only aware of 2'

When pressed connected President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid rejecting transgender ideology, Canadian Conservative Party person Pierre Poilievre challenged a writer to sanction immoderate sex speech from "men and women."

On his archetypal time successful office, Trump declared, "As of today, it volition henceforth beryllium the authoritative argumentation of the United States Government, that determination are only 2 genders, antheral and female." The enforcement order, "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government," was portion of a flurry of reforms against excesses of far-left individuality authorities successful American government.

CP24 quality big Phil Perkins spoke astir the enforcement bid arsenic helium interviewed Poilievre, the person galore judge is most apt to replace existent Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 

The big asked, "if elected arsenic premier minister, is that thing that you’re going to benignant of locomotion successful enactment with? Or what are your feelings connected that enforcement order?"

Canadian Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre challenged an interviewer to sanction immoderate sex identities speech from antheral and female.

"Well, I don’t know. Do you person immoderate different genders that you’d similar to name?" Poilievre asked dryly. 

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The big reiterated his question, "I’m conscionable asking much truthful if you’re successful enactment with what helium is saying. Do you hold with what he’s saying? Is that thing that you would beryllium lockstep with if elected arsenic premier minister?"

"Well, I’m not alert of immoderate different genders than men and women. I mean, if you person immoderate different that you privation maine to consider, you’re invited to archer maine close now," the Canadian blimpish person said.

"Well, there’s- well, there’s… Personally, I americium a man," Perkins tried to explain, saying immoderate would notation to him arsenic a "cis-man."

"Me, too. I americium a antheral arsenic well," Poilievre replied, adding, "We person thing successful common."

"You’re a man, yes," Perkins said. "There are radical determination who accidental that they’re gender-neutral, uhh, they are a trans person. Is that thing that you would admit here? Whereas successful the States, astatine slightest with their U.S. government, the mode they’re seeing it, there’s lone two?"

U.S. President Donald Trump signs documents arsenic helium issues enforcement orders successful the Oval Office astatine the White House connected Inauguration Day successful Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

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"I’m lone alert of two, but, I mean, if you person — if you travel up with different list, past you’re invited to bash that. But I’m alert of two," Poilievre replied. "And arsenic acold arsenic I’m concerned, we should person a authorities that conscionable minds its ain damn concern and leaves radical alone."

When asked by the quality host astir whether passports with different sex identities should beryllium recognized, the Canadian blimpish person argued determination are acold much pressing issues astatine hand.

"I person to beryllium honorable with you. I conscionable saw your conception connected stateless encampments that are popping up each implicit Toronto. We’ve got 25% of our colonisation successful poverty, the lodging costs person doubled, transgression is rampaging done our streets, I conscionable find it to beryllium a unusual precedence to walk clip talking astir this," Poilievre said.

He went connected to item what helium prefers to absorption connected to amended the lives of Canadian citizens.

"My precedence is to springiness radical backmost power of their lives and bring backmost Canada’s committedness that anyone who works hard gets a almighty paycheck and pension that buys affordable food, state and homes successful harmless neighborhoods. That’s the committedness we request for Canadians," Poilievre said.

"If liberals privation to speech astir antithetic labels for sex that they privation to enactment connected passports successful the United States, they tin bash that. I’m gonna speech astir the things that volition bring location Canada’s promise," helium added. 

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Trump's enforcement bid calls for passports and each government-issued IDs to "accurately bespeak the holder’s sex," reversing the Biden administration's determination to let "X" arsenic a sex marker.