Charlie Kirk Host Maxime Bernier of the PPC. Here's the interview 18-Apr-2025

https://www.peoplespartyofcanada.ca/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1DyCwaqjD0
Maxime Bernier is a politician known for his frankness and authenticity.

A man of ideas, he is committed to individual FREEDOM and personal RESPONSIBILITY, RESPECT for Canada’s cultural heritage, as well as governance that ensures that every citizen is treated FAIRLY, principles that are at the heart of his political vision.

Encouraged to make the leap into active politics, he was elected Member of Parliament for Beauce on January 23, 2006 with the largest majority for a Conservative MP outside of Alberta. He was then appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Industry.

Professor Richard J. Schultz, Director of the Department of Political Science at McGill University, has written that “in terms of what is perhaps the single most important component of his Industry portfolio, telecommunications, he was without challenge the best Industry Minister in thirty years.”

Maxime Bernier then served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from August 2007 to May 2008, a position he left following a resounding scandal involving secret documents left at his then girlfriend’s home. He was nevertheless re-elected as MP for Beauce in October 2008, and again in May 2011. He was then appointed Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism. He won his fourth election in November 2015, again with an impressive majority.

In 2016, he entered the leadership race to succeed Stephen Harper at the helm of the Conservative Party of Canada, a race he lost a year later by only 1% of the vote under questionable circumstances of vote manipulation.

On August 23, 2018, Maxime Bernier left the Conservative Party, a party he no longer believed in and denounced as “morally and intellectually corrupt,” to sit as an independent member of Parliament (read his statement here). He officially launched the People’s Party of Canada a few weeks later, on 14 September. He lost his seat as Member of Parliament for Beauce in the October 2019 election.

Even if he has not yet managed to regain a seat as a member of Parliament, Maxime Bernier has succeeded in founding a party whose forward-thinking stances have had a considerable influence on Canadian political debates, and that has become the sixth largest in federal politics.