{"id":1446100,"date":"2022-04-19T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T17:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1446100"},"modified":"2022-04-19T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T17:15:33","slug":"fact-verify-did-canadian-politician-pierre-poilievre-demand-abolishing-all-social-programs-within-a-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-verify-did-canadian-politician-pierre-poilievre-demand-abolishing-all-social-programs-within-a-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT Verify: Did Canadian Politician Pierre Poilievre DEMAND Abolishing All Social Programs Within A Tweet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-verify-did-canadian-politician-pierre-poilievre-demand-abolishing-all-social-programs-within-a-tweet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1446100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span>An image <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=10160194643910166&#038;set=a.86071965165\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> purportedly shows a tweet from Canadian member of Parliament (MP) Pierre Poilievre advocating for the abolishment of all social programs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The image is digitally fabricated. There is no record of Poilievre sending such a tweet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Poilievre <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierrePoilievre\/status\/1490115382157398030\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> his candidacy for prime minister in February 2022. The 42-year-old MP has since emerged as a frontrunner to be the Conservative Party\u2019s nominee to run against incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/04\/06\/pierre-poilievre-canada-pm-experts-00023297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a> reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>An image shared on Facebook appears to show a tweet from Poilievre\u2019s verified account calling for an end to all social programs. \u201cHere\u2019s a simple idea: Abolish all social programs,\u201d reads the alleged tweet. \u201cThis guy is awful,\u201d reads the post\u2019s caption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The image is digitally fabricated. The purported tweet does not appear on Poilievre\u2019s verified <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=here%27s%20a%20simple%20idea%3A%20abolish%20all%20social%20programs%20%20(from%3APierrePoilievre)&#038;src=typeahead_click&#038;f=top\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><span> account nor is there a record of it on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politwoops.com\/p\/conservative\/PierrePoilievre?page=1\"><span>Politwhoops<\/span><\/a><span>, a website that tracks the deleted tweets of politicians. There are likewise no<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Pierre+Poilievre+aolish+all+social+programs&#038;sxsrf=APq-WBt1JMizkVihYkUeOhmyXGQfmd52vg:1650311992649&#038;source=lnms&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwi7-tugs573AhXgg4kEHbEcBQEQ_AUoAHoECAEQAg&#038;biw=960&#038;bih=972&#038;dpr=1\"><span>credible news reports<\/span><\/a><span> that mention such a tweet or Poilievre advocating for the abolishment of social programs as part of his platform. Check Your Fact searched his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pierre4pm.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> but found no evidence that Poilievre had endorsed such an idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe tweet is a fake,\u201d a spokesperson for the Poilievre campaign told Check Your Fact in an email. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/11\/17\/fact-check-biden-covid-19-withholding-welfare-refuse-vaccine\/\">(RELATED: Did A Member Of Biden\u2019s Covid-19 Task Force Suggest Withholding Social Benefits From Those Who Refuse To Be Vaccinated?)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The fake tweet is likely based on a visually similar <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierrePoilievre\/status\/1511458369479004161\"><span>tweet<\/span><\/a><span> from Poilievre that reads, \u201cHere\u2019s a simple idea: STOP. PRINTING. MONEY,\u201d and includes a link to donate to his campaign. The tweet also linked to a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8736145\/canada-budget-2022-inflation-effects\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global News article<\/a> that reported the Liberal Party was seeking to increase spending despite fears of growing inflation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a tweet from Canadian member of Parliament (MP) Pierre Poilievre advocating for the abolishment of all social programs.\u00a0Verdict: False The image is digitally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":1446115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1446115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}