Bernier won the riding for the Conservative Party in the 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2015 elections before breaking with the party and launching his own right-wing party in September 2018. “I’m pretty optimistic that in the end I will win,” Bernier told Global News in a recent interview from Ottawa. Toronto Star articles, please go to:The Toronto Star and thestar.com, each property of Toronto Star And it works,” said Jacques.Recently, Bernier said that “Islamist extremists” had “infiltrated” Canadian politics, but he did not back that up.Bernier’s rhetoric, however, has not alienated voters like Jacques.Maxime Bernier isn’t fazed by recent polling that suggests he is in a.with the Conservative candidate running against him in the upcoming federal election for his Quebec riding, Beauce.“I’m pretty optimistic that in the end I will win,” Bernier told Global News in a recent interview from Ottawa. The English version peaked at No. In a letter sent to the Leaders’ Debate Commission, Bernier picks five ridings based on “candidates who are better known in their riding as public figures, and […] Politeness and tolerance have always been traits Canadians are happy to ascribe to themselves, and the country’s carefully cultivated idea of,But that isn’t the whole story, either. He carved out a niche for himself as a libertarian, coming out hard against conventionally popular positions, such as.He slowly climbed back up the rungs of power. “But I don’t take anything for granted.”,Until last year, Bernier himself had been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Beauce, a region made up of several municipalities south of Quebec City that stretches to the border with Maine. Trade talks with major UK ally start TODAY – huge boost for Boris,As Supreme Court Fight Heats Up, Biden Urges Republican Senators to ‘Follow Your Conscience’,Murkowski Becomes 2nd Republican to Oppose Supreme Court Vote Before Election,Coronavirus: Boris Johnson ‘feeling the weight of responsibility acutely’ over COVID-19,Boris Johnson to avoid furious nationwide Tory rebellion if he fulfils key Brexit promise,F.B.I. After losing the national Conservative leadership race by a small margin to Andrew Scheer, Bernier went on to renounce the party as.and started the People’s Party of Canada that sits even further to the right.Earlier this month, polling from the riding suggested that Bernier is.with Conservative candidate Richard Lehoux, a fourth-generation dairy farmer and long-time mayor from the area.He’s out there talking about immigration and climate change. Much of his political strategy appeared the work of one of his longtime aides.But Bernier’s flop may also be a sign that the growth of the far-right has its limitations and its appeal may be waning. He got ample airtime, in part thanks to his new party and in part thanks to his incendiary tweets, such as one calling the climate campaigner Greta Thunberg “,Judging by other countries, this should have been enough to capture plentiful political space.
He said he had developed fear and hatred toward the Muslim community, fuelled by the stereotypes he saw on the news and in the media.“Basically, I prefer a politician who reveals his true intentions to the one who tells us what we would like to hear,“ said Jacques.Although Maxime sometimes gets bogged down in the way his messages are sent and he rocks a little too far right, his way of doing politics is different and everywhere in the world, we need this feeling of difference and of change. He attributed his loss to a concerted campaign by Quebec dairy farmers who were upset that Bernier was proposing to end the supply management system that regulates the price of eggs, dairy and poultry.Bernier founded his own party soon after, declaring the Conservatives to be “intellectually and morally corrupt” and lacking in true conservative principles.As leader, Bernier campaigned against what he calls “extreme multiculturalism,” promising to cut immigration levels and ensure new arrivals respond to Canada’s economic needs.The 56-year-old faced criticism during the campaign for tweets describing 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg as mentally unstable, although he later softened his comments.Late last week, The Globe and Mail reported that strategist Warren Kinsella and his firm Daisy Group were hired to “seek and destroy” Bernier’s party and portray its supporters as racist.The Globe has reported the client was the Conservatives, although Scheer has refused to confirm, deny or even acknowledge the report.Bernier who filed a complaint with Elections Canada over the affair, suggested that Kinsella’s campaign might have had a hand in the satirical Rhinoceros party’s decision to field a candidate also named Maxime Bernier in the Beauce in hopes of confusing voters.While Bernier ran candidates in almost every riding, his party struggled to break through, and it was polling below three per cent in most opinion surveys.Lehoux, a former dairy farmer, said last week he was running against not just Bernier but the PPC leader’s father too. Star Newspapers Limited and/or its licensors. Not In The Way You Might Think,7 Takeaways About Erin O’Toole’s New Shadow Cabinet,From The Supermarket To The Dollar Store, A Dietitian’s Fave Budget Eats,Teens Give Advice On How Schools Can Do Better By Black Students,While The World Isolated, A Rural Newfoundland Family Thrived Underwater. ".In the fall of 2018, Bernier abandoned ship and started his own conservative party, which made his chances for re-election challenging at the outset. He was summarily fired as foreign minister.His career was torpedoed, but not quite sunk. Brexit, supposed to confirm the renewed, modern conservative vision of Prime Minister David Cameron, had just accidentally cemented the U.K. Conservatives as reactionary Euroskeptics.Three candidates were front-runners in the Canadian Conservative leadership race: Andrew Scheer, the former House of Commons speaker who represented the traditional Tory base; Kevin O’Leary, the.O’Leary, to everyone’s surprise, vaulted to first—only to drop out of the race at the last minute, keener on staying a TV star than being prime minister. Ontario elected as its premier.Bernier responds to NDP leader Jagmeet Singh during the Federal Leaders Debate in Gatineau, Quebec, on Oc.t 7.A more tangible reason is Canada’s campaign finance laws.