WATCH: Poilievre SMASHES Trudeau over ‘unjustifiable power grab’

"The prime minister... brought in this new mandate to deprive people of their living. Why? Because he knew that it would spark in them a sense of desperation. If he could deprive them of their incomes, they would be so desperate, that they would have to rise up and protest, and then he could further demonize them and call them names and attack their motives and belittle them and dehumanize them in order to galvanize the majority against the minority," said Poilievre.

Poilievre also condemned Trudeau's intimidation tactics of freezing bank accounts of those who donated to the "wrong political cause."

"Not just an attack on their finances, but on their personal security. If your bank account is frozen, you can't buy food, you can't buy fuel, you can't pay your children's daycare fees, and you can, under this law, face that personal attack without being charged with a single solitary crime.

"This is time limited, but his own finance minister said she wants some of the tools to be permanent. He said it will be geographically targetted, yet his own parliamentary secretary for justice said 'the act technically applies to all of Canada,' so the rules apply everywhere and indefinitely."

Poilievre said that there is an emergency in this country. "Indeed, there are a series of emergencies," said Poilievre, who gave examples of isolated and suicidal children, those who cannot get vaccinated and have lost jobs, and of truckers who went from heroes to villains.

"There is the emergency of the 32-year-old still living in his mom's basement, because under the pretext of COVID, the government printed so much money that it now costs $836,000 for the average house.

"There is the emergency of the single mother trembling as she walks down the grocery aisle because she can't afford a basket of affordable goods because the government has inflated her cost of living.

"There is the emergency created by the regulatory gatekeepers who keep people in poverty by blockading First Nations people from the ability of developing their own resources and blockade immigrants from working in the very professions for which they are trained and qualified," said Poilievre.

Poilievre called it a "unjustifiable power grab," and said that he as prime minister would make sure that no such abuse of power "ever happens again."