I agree that we need to have real temporary foreign workers, who are working in the fields, picking fruits.
— Maxime Bernier
The People's Party, I am working for the people and we want to put the power back in people.
We care about shared values, culture and identity.
I can understand why immigrants would want to bring the rest of their extended family here, including older ones who will benefit from our health-care system.
We must give less money to these provinces, like my own province of Quebec, and give them the right incentive to develop their own natural resources and their economy.
I think it is not important to have the free trade agreement with China.
I want a smaller government, yes, but I want a government that will be fair.
You know, I'm a free market politician and I think I'm the only one who worked for think-tanks like the Montreal Economic Institute.
We need new technology to fight climate change and that will come from the private sector.
Canadians are a compassionate people and we should be. But at what cost?
Policy should not aim to change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada.
If you believe in free markets, I don't want to make any compromise with my principles and I think that's the right policy for Canadians and for Canadian consumers.
Do we want to emphasize our ethnic and religious differences, and exploit them to buy votes, as the Liberals are doing? Or emphasize what unites us and the values that can guarantee social cohesion?
The Conservative Party tries to avoid important but controversial issues of concern to Conservatives and Canadians in general. It is afraid to articulate any coherent philosophy to support its positions.
Some may remember that, in 2010, I publicly broke ranks with my colleagues from the Quebec City area who were pushing our government to subsidize a new sports amphitheater in the city. They had seized on this popular project to... What else? Buy votes.
The free market, the people, will find solutions and they always did in the past.
I believe in climate change.
Yes, I worked in Montreal. I worked there for 20 years... I came back to Beauce in 2006 to represent the Beaucerons.
I am not a communist.
You can be of any ethnic background or faith and be a Canadian if you share fundamental Canadian values, learn about our history and culture, and integrate in our society.
We must go back and we must be sure that our immigrants will be well-integrated into our society, and the best way to do that is to have more economic immigrants, less refugees a little bit and less reunufication of families.
While the other parties look at polls and focus groups to decide what they stand for, and pander to every special interest group, we follow our principles.
My party will do nothing on climate change because environment, it's a shared jurisdiction, and provinces, they have programs for that, and so I'll let provinces decide what they're going to do to fight climate change.
I want to get rid of corporate welfare.
I am saying to Canadians, there is no climate emergency in this country.
If you're choosing somebody that doesn't have the competence, but because it's a young guy, or it's a lady or if it's a man, it's a positive discrimination and I won't push that.
Actually, I'm the only politician in Ottawa who is against the Paris Accord.
Brian Mulroney came to power in 1984 and privatized Petro-Canada, brought in the GST and signed the free trade agreement with the U.S. He was a great prime minister and made bold conservative changes. That's all I want to do.
The politicians, they try to please everybody and when you want to please everybody, you won't please everybody. That's not my way of doing politics.
The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.
A Conservative party that supports free markets should also advocate the end of corporate welfare.
I know many Canadians are fed up with the traditional way of doing politics.
The electric car, it's not the government saying, 'Oh, we must have electric cars.' The market was ready for that. People were ready for that, so, we have electric cars.
We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.
I like free markets, I like competition.
Everyone who knows me, they know that I am not a socialist.
I don't care one bit about people's race or skin colour.
It's federal jurisdiction, so the federal government can approve pipelines.
It's not true that we are white supremacists in Canada.
What is best for the Beauce is what is best for Canada.
When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices.
We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.
I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.
Integrating is easier when you have a job in Canada.
You have to stick to your principles and when you believe in something, to fight for it.
People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.
If we want conservative principles to win the battle of ideas, we have to defend them openly, with passion and conviction.
I am in politics to defend ideas, real conservative ideas. Because I passionately care about Canada's future. Because I know that the free-market conservative philosophy has the best solutions to ensure our society is more prosperous, secure, and peaceful.
A small group of motivated citizens can potentially have as much influence as a lobby group spending millions of dollars.
You can shut down our economy and the effect on climate change, it will be nothing.
