In 2018, Maxime Bernier left the Conservative Party to start the People’s Party of Canada (PPC). The party boldly took on that which almost none other would: Covid lockdowns and mandates, gender identity ideology, climate change hysteria, DEI, authoritarian hate speech laws, and more.
The PPC more closely resembles the populist, freedom-oriented option many Canadians are desperate for, in a sea of parties that often feel barely different from one another. Bernier has unapologetically challenged the woke agenda, as well as mass immigration—something that has predictably led him and the PPC to be smeared as “racist” and “far right,” in the way all those challenging progressive doctrine are. The party has even taken on the sacred cow that is the Canadian health care system, suggesting in its platform that Canada adopt a “mixed private-public” system to deal with the untenable wait times that have become the norm.
I found the PPC platform the most rational, bold, and honest of them all, and Bernier to be a kind man with a great deal of integrity, after speaking alongside him at an event last year. I was relieved to have a party I felt truly good about voting for in the last federal election.
You all can decide for yourselves, of course. I spoke with Bernier recently about the tariff war, climate change alarmism, what it means to “stand with Ukraine,” why Poilievre appears be leaning into Liberal Light, what the Liberal Party is up to, and more.
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