Maxime Bernier believes the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) is “not conservative, they're only conservative in name” and that is why real conservatives should support the People’s Party of Canada (PPC)..Pierre Poilievre is speaking like a conservative to win the Conservative leadership race, just like O’Toole did before turning to the left, according to Bernier..“I believe Poilievre may win because he is speaking like a conservative,” said Bernier..“O’Toole spoke like a conservative to win the leadership race … O’Toole did that. He said ’I’m true blue’ and won.”.Bernier said the CPC is “morally and intellectually corrupt.”.The CPC is not rejecting the leftist demands and Poilievre will turn to the left to win Ontario and Quebec..“Their [CPC] promoting leftist ideology, leftist narrative because they want to be in government and the only way to be in government is to have more seats in Quebec and Ontario,” said Bernier. .“Yes, Poilievre is speaking like a conservative right now. But he will go to the left when the time will come.”.Bernier accused Poilievre of ignoring the big issues for Western Canada, such as pipelines, equalization, and provinces controlling immigration. .“Poilievre taking Western support in Canada for granted because he is not addressing the big issues like pipelines,” said Bernier..“Poilievre won’t use the constitution to impose pipelines … equalization, not speaking about that … immigration, not speaking about that. Your province [Saskatchewan] wants to control immigration and not speaking about that. ”.READ MORE Bernier wants national pipelines to export Canadian energy to allies .Bernier said Poilievre helped cause the cost-of-living crisis Canadians are facing because of printing money and huge deficits..“He [Poilievre] is part of the reason we have inflation. Because the Conservatives and Poilievre supported these huge deficits. Four-hundred and fifty billion dollars. That’s why we have inflation because they supported and after that, the Bank of Canada printed the money,” said Bernier..“Poilievre is part of the problem and now he is speaking about inflation and saying ‘I’ll control that.’”.Bernier said the Canadian government needs to balance the budget and have the Bank of Canada target a zero inflation rate..“Need to balance the budget and they won’t balance the budget. They said they would balance the budget in 10 years … Tell Bank of Canada to have a zero inflation target,” said Bernier..“Poilievre's platform is based on focus groups and surveys … he’s telling you nice slogans you want to hear,” said Bernier..Poilievre has a problem with red Tories in the party as 10 Quebec MPs could quit if Poilievre does not move to the left..“Ten MPs from Quebec may resign … so he will have to compromise to please red Tories … It doesn’t matter who wins, they will go to the left,” said Bernier..Bernier made his pitch to Western Canadian voters that the PPC lines up with conservative values..“To the people out West. Vote for us [PPC]. You won’t have lost anything. We are the insurance policy that if the Conservatives are in government, as a minority government, we will be sure the Conservatives go to the right and do the right thing,” said Bernier..“We will support them [CPC] if they are in line with our values … Family values, common sense values, free market values. We will support them. If not, we won’t. It’s a win to vote PPC.”.Bernier wants to know where Poilievre was during the lockdowns and mandates eliminating people’s freedoms..“Poilievre was nowhere to be seen in 2020 and 2021, when we needed him to fight for our rights … Poilievre is an opportunist politician and will only speak about something when it is very popular for him to win,” said Bernier..Bernier said there could never be a merger of the PPC and CPC..“Never, never, never. We won’t do the mistake that the Canadian Alliance did… The only thing we will do is support any government that supports our values. It’s the only way to win,” said Bernier..Canada needs a common sense revolution and that takes more than one election cycle, according to Bernier..“We need to have that common sense revolution in Canada and we started that in 2018. But doing a revolution, you don’t do that in one election,” said Bernier..“The Reform Party was not the official opposition after the first election. We are the new Reform Party and we have a lot of reforms that we must do … Healthcare, immigration, all these big reforms and we’ll do it.”.Bernier said Canada is in a culture war and the CPC is not fighting back against it..“The Conservatives are not talking about the culture war in our country. Socialism, wokeism, Poilievre is not speaking about that because it’s not popular,” said Bernier..“We are speaking about that because it’s so important for the future of our country … We have people who voted NDP that are coming with us … The NDP are now the woke party, that’s not the party of Jack Layton or Ed Broadbent with Jagmeet [Singh]. It’s another party, it’s a woke party.”.Bernier wants Canadians to know that the PPC is the party with convictions and the right vision for Canada..“We are doing politics differently … We are doing politics with conviction … We have the right vision for this country,” said Bernier.
