Poilievre suggests he would ‘protect’ dental care, child care programs as PM [Video]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, when asked Tuesday if Liberal programs like dental and pharmacare would be at risk if he is elected prime minister, said ‘we will protect these programs,’ before going on to discuss his views on child care.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising a government led by him would maintain existing federal dental-care, pharmacare and child-care coverage.

At a campaign stop Tuesday in Vaughan, Ont., Poilievre was asked whether he would cut those programs if he became prime minister.

“We will protect these programs and nobody who has them will lose them,” Poilievre said, offering his most substantial answer yet about the fate of those programs under a Conservative government.

“We will make sure that nobody loses their dental care.”

Poilievre stopped short of saying a Conservative government would expand those programs beyond the agreements already in place.

His comments addressed a common line of attack from …