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Pierre Poilievre’s own website is warning people about accepting government largesse, even as the Conservative MP and minister has taken the lead in dispensing child-care benefit cheques to thousands of Canadians this summer.

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“Canada was built on freedom, not freebies,” reads one of several rotating banners at the top of pierremp.ca.

Another reads: “Government cannot give anything, without first taking it away.”

While a politician featuring his own inspirational quotes on his site is already a questionable decision, those particular pearls of wisdom come at an awkward time for the MP for Nepean-Carleton, who has been active over the last week promoting the government’s newly expanded Universal Child Care Benefit, which resulted in lump-sum payments to parents of $420 to $520 for the first seven months of 2015.

Poilievre has branded the benefits splurge “Christmas in July” and even encouraged people to tweet about receiving their cash.