I have people on Twitter that they know better my own platform than myself.
— Maxime Bernier
Justin Trudeau is always saying diversity's our strength. It is not our strength.
I don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe in having a challenge to integrate their new immigrants.
You must build public policies on reason, on facts.
They call me the Albertan of Quebec. It stuck.
When we tolerate violations to the Constitution, the entire moral foundation of our political system is shaken to its core.
Taxing corporations means unnecessarily burdening our wealth-creating machines.
Some taxes are really dumb.
I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.
When government borrowing and spending go up, private borrowing and spending go down.
Prosperity has nothing to do with the quantity of money that we have in our pockets, but rather with the quantity of goods that we can buy.
Monetary policy is one of the most difficult topics in economics. But also, I believe, a topic of absolutely crucial importance for our prosperity.
What I'm looking for is doing politics like I believe.
I have said many times that racist and bigots are not welcome in our party... The journalists who don't want to recognize this and keep coming back with questions of bigotry can just take a hike.
The U.N. is a dysfunctional organization.
Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.
You can save a lot of money when you have responsible and bold policies that are in line with our principles, and we are telling the truth to Canadians.
I'm a kind of an entrepreneur.
A person that wants to come to our country must share our Canadian values.
We're not radical when we are speaking about fewer immigrants.
You cannot build public policies on sentiment, on panic and fear.
I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.
A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.
From the perspective of corporations, taxes are an additional cost of doing business. If you increase their taxes, to remain profitable they will have to find ways to lower other costs, or to increase revenues.
I want to live in a society where everyone is treated equally and not defined by their race.
It's nice to have dreams, but when you use borrowed money to achieve them and act as if money grows on trees, you may have a brutal awakening.
Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.
I hope that more Canadians will become interested in in how the inflation rate target affects our purchasing power, our standard of living and therefore our life.
I'm very different from other politicians.
People are fed up of politicians who say one thing one day and another the day after.
I don't care a bit about people's race or skin colour.
We want the private sector to be able to invest. The private sector works quite well.
We are doing politics differently - smart, populist, political movement.
We want First Nations and these people to be like Canadians on a lot of points of view. Right now, that's not normal that they cannot have running water on reserve. We need to fix that, but it must not be imposed by Ottawa, a top-down bureaucratic decision.
Our immigration policy should not aim to forcibly change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada, as radical proponents of multiculturalism want.
Diversity, it is good. This country has been built by diversity. But diversity in sharing of values? For me, it's not good.
For me, I don't have to defend myself that I am not a racist. I won't go in that discussion.
I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.
Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.
We Conservatives believe not in big, interventionist, centralized government. But in small and limited government, government as close to the people as possible.
A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.
I think it's motivating and exalting when we defend ideas that are at the foundation of western civilization.
In reality, every time the government takes an additional dollar in taxes out of someone's pocket, it's a dollar that person will not be able to spend or invest. When government spending goes up, private spending goes down. There is no net effect. No wealth creation.
To stimulate the economy, we need to give entrepreneurs the means to create wealth.
I may be a dreamer, but I think monetary economics should be a hot topic.
People like authenticity and I think I have the courage of my convictions and am authentic.
I think here in Beauce, people are very honest. And they don't like a politician that will say something one day and the opposite the other day.
We cannot be the welfare state of the planet.
You must believe in people. You must give back their money in their own pockets.
We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.
