Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada, joins us to review the election results and talk about what's next for the party and the country. Maxime also talks about his vision for the future of the party.
00:00:00.000In Alberta, you will have a referendum on the separation before the end of this year.
00:00:05.580And with Carney there, I believe that Carney will do his best to give what Albertan wants.
00:00:12.740But this country may not exist in five years.
00:00:16.260The unity of this country is in danger and the prosperity of this country, we don't have any prosperity with this inflation and more deficit, more debt.
00:00:52.900Well, hello, everyone, and welcome to the Empower Hour.
00:00:59.380My name is Tanya Gaw, and I'm the founder of Action for Canada.
00:01:02.520And I'm super delighted tonight to have our special guest, Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada, join us so that we can review the election results and talk about what's next.
00:01:16.980As for some of you, I've seen some things, a little misinformation going around the social media, Maxime, about you saying that you never won a seat and not been elected.
00:01:27.720And I just want to set the record straight.
00:01:30.120You were an MP for the Conservative Party from 2006 to 2018.
00:01:34.460And from 2018, you founded the People's Party of Canada until 2019.
00:01:42.540So, you have great experience as a politician.
00:01:53.440You were the former minister, I believe, of foreign affairs, business, tourism, and agriculture.
00:02:00.160Like, you just have this wealth of information as leader of the party.
00:02:04.620And so, for those of you out there who are kind of new to this, I just, I really, it was something, every time I saw it come up on social media, I'd roll my eyes.
00:03:34.480And we are educating and informing the population about the issues with the real solutions.
00:03:42.920And that's what I appreciate you, Maxime, in the party.
00:03:45.500And I just want to thank you, your team, the candidates, your volunteers for working so hard in the face of opposition, of criticism, of people who I don't want to say they're cowardly.
00:03:59.820But at the same time, fear was driving them to vote for the Conservatives because of this campaign to inflate what was going on.
00:04:10.380And I call it, as earlier I said, the self-inflicted tariff war with the United States and then to ride on through that into this election rather than the issues that matter, such as mass immigration, what's happening, you know, to our children.
00:04:25.940I mean, we have such a list of issues, the money laundering, the drug cartels, and none of that was central in this election.
00:05:09.560And, you know, that was not the solution.
00:05:11.860And that's why I'm saying it was not an election, because people decided, OK, who's going to be the best one to fight against Trump, Poliev or Carney?
00:05:25.420And the election was very, you know, concentrated on these issues.
00:05:30.980And for mass immigration, like you said, it was not the top issue for this campaign.
00:05:38.160And for us, we wanted that to be the top issue for this electoral campaign, because it's having a huge impact, as you know, on our standard of living and the social fabric of our country.
00:05:49.860But I just want to tell you, I was I did travel across the country in the country in 2021 at that election.
00:05:58.880And I did that this year at this election.
00:06:02.140And I can tell you, Tanya, I saw the mass immigration this year.
00:06:07.880I can tell you the big difference with 2021 and 2025.
00:08:02.320And I can tell you, in Alberta, you will have a referendum on the separation before the end of this year.
00:08:09.640And and with Carnie there, I believe that Carnie will do his best to give what Albertans wants.
00:08:16.280But this country may may not exist in five years.
00:08:20.060And, you know, that was not part of the platform of the Conservative speaking about, you know, radical decentralization, a change in equalization formula.
00:08:31.560That was not a concern for the Conservative.
00:08:34.720And that's why I said to people in Alberta when I was there in Alberta, when I was there to Alberta, you know,
00:08:42.200the Conservatives are taking your vote for granted and you are still voting for them when all you're concerned, it's not part of their platform.
00:08:51.740So please wake up and smell the coffee.
00:11:05.400But there's once in a while those people that come across and, you know, send a little zinger and arrow our way for supporting the PPC party.
00:11:13.980Because, you know, the Bible talks about, for lack of knowledge, a people perish.
00:12:45.620Well, they've got a definite minority government right now.
00:12:48.760I think there's still a couple of ridings that are in question.
00:12:52.100I'm a little concerned because of what we went through here in BC with the provincial election.
00:12:57.000And it just seems that, you know, people are, we talked about potential election fraud.
00:13:03.240I know there's a lot of things going around on social media right now.
00:13:07.200But I think the focus needs to be at the community level.
00:13:10.180I think that we really need to say, you know what, put your boots on, get busy, get out there.
00:13:18.040And you were talking about really getting qualified candidates ready, not at the 11th hour, but building in the next two years to be ready for that.
00:13:27.780And you and I are in agreement that these candidates need to be well known within their community.
00:13:34.220And that is of such a benefit, managing to go into the different communities within the churches, door knocking, being part of events so that people know your name.
00:13:46.840Because the marketing of the Conservative and Liberal Party right now is the direction that people are still going towards.
00:13:55.460Yeah, and they have a lot of money, the Conservatives and the Liberals, they spend about $35 million each during this campaign.
00:14:07.060And we as a young political party have spent about $400,000.
00:14:13.660But what you can do, like you said, our candidates must be more active in between the elections.
00:14:20.140And actually, I was with a couple of our candidates the night of the election, and they told me, Maxime, tomorrow morning, I'm back on the street speaking with my people, but I want to be sure that I'll be your candidate.
00:14:33.640I said, yes, you know, you have a lot of experience now.
00:14:37.140And what we will do, personally, I will be in touch with each one of our candidates the next couple of weeks.
00:14:43.260But we want to have a process, a fast process to approve our candidates right now, and they will be able to be out there, and they will have more time to be known in their community.
00:15:53.320We had about 65 volunteers knocking on doors almost every day.
00:15:59.080And so that's why I decided to go back in Bowes.
00:16:02.220I had a choice to go back to Portage Lisgar in Manitoba, where I had 18% of the vote in a by-election, or going back to Bowes.
00:16:11.940And before deciding to go back to Bowes, I did have a discussion with maybe five or six dairy producers, because I wanted them to understand our proposal.
00:16:23.600And, you know, I told them, I'm offering, you know, cooperation because I strongly believe, and you can read, Trump said that we must get rid of that cartel if we want to have a free trade agreement with the U.S. and Trump and Mexico.
00:16:40.340And they told me that they understand that.
00:16:44.560And I said, you know, I'm speaking about compensation, fair compensation for the abolition of that cartel with a transition period.
00:16:52.340And they told me, Maxime, if you're speaking like that during the election, you'll have more support from the dairy producers.
00:16:57.660Actually, I did it, but I think the union, the UPA, l'Union des producteurs agricoles in Quebec, they did everything and they put a lot of money in Bowes, telling to our dairy producers, don't support Maxime, that we won't, we will be able to have a free trade agreement with the U.S., we'll keep our privilege, don't believe Bernier and don't support him.
00:17:22.660So, again, the cartel was very active in Bowes.
00:17:27.060But anyway, we did our best and best and we'll see.
00:17:31.880I can tell you that I was disappointed for sure, but at least, you know, I was out there telling the truth to people in Bowes.
00:17:41.720Yeah, there was a lot of people rooting for you, Maxime.
00:17:44.200And there are a lot of powers that be that have been influencing our elections for some time.
00:17:48.940I love what a woman said down in the States that was lobbying for the unions to be defunded, to be banned, because they have become these Marxist socialist power groups.
00:18:00.540And they're using their members' funds in order to attack our sovereignty and our freedoms and not allow democracy to unfold naturally.
00:18:08.620Now, let's talk about what happened to Pierre Polyev and his writing.
00:18:12.740I understand that there was 91 candidates in his writing, and it was said that, I'm just looking for my notes, it was a group called The Longest Ballot.
00:18:27.480And it's a group that tries to get as many candidates on a ballot to call attention to the idea of an independent electoral reform process.
00:18:36.740And so they targeted Carleton, Pierre Polyev's writing, and 85 of the 91 candidates had the same agent.
00:18:45.180And so, you know, it was a targeted attack, it sounds like, against Pierre Polyev.
00:18:53.520And, you know, after 20 years of being in office and serving in that writing, he has lost.
00:19:00.820And so now, tell us a little bit more about what may be coming for Pierre Polyev.
00:19:06.020Yeah, but speaking about that, I think we can have an electoral reform, you know, that a financial agent must be a financial agent for only one candidate.
00:19:15.080And actually, Daniel Smith in Alberta tabled a bill saying that, so that's great.
00:19:21.520And for our electoral process, like I said, we need to have one day of votation, the day of the election.
00:22:33.480And now the Republican Party is a real Republican Party.
00:22:37.600So he's looking at Polyev that is a Conservative in name only.
00:22:41.420So he doesn't want to support a guy that is not Conservative.
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00:25:17.660It would be the 11th hour before he would pop his head out of the sand and talk about an issue that was really relevant days before a vote,
00:25:25.040like on Motion M-103 or the Global Compact on Migration.
00:25:28.700There was no conviction there on the issues that Conservative Canadians, that any reasonable Canadian was concerned about watching our sovereignty slip away from us.
00:25:39.480And, you know, when you were running for leadership as well, that got stolen, in my opinion.
00:25:46.360And it's just like this rot at the executive level within the Conservative Party.
00:31:45.380And we need to start talking straight talk.
00:31:48.400I'm not worried about hurting immigrants' feelings.
00:31:50.640I care enough about them to maintain our sovereignty.
00:31:54.640Otherwise, why did they leave the hellhole that they were living in to come to Canada only to bring their failed foreign systems of governance and belief systems here and expect us to adopt them?
00:32:05.820So, no, we're not going to adopt Islam's, you know, political ideologies.
00:32:10.700We're not going to adopt Sikhism and Hinduism and Buddhism.
00:32:16.080And it goes against our core documents, the founding documents of Canada, which is founded on a Christian nation.
00:32:23.500We have a right to protect that sovereignty.
00:32:26.140And so we need to get bold about this and we need to talk straight talk.
00:32:30.840And I just want to give people encouragement because one of Action for Canada's main topics is definitely immigration from countries who want to bring those values here that are totally anti-Canadian.
00:32:46.740Islam and the West have never been able to coexist together.
00:32:49.780I don't want to hear anything from anybody about, oh, I know a nice Muslim.
00:32:54.660There isn't, you know, there may be nice Muslims, but they're disobedient to their doctrine because it says to when the population gets high enough to kill the infidel.
00:33:07.180And so that's just not compatible with our Western democracy.
00:33:11.360And if they can't find enjoyment in the 56 Islamic majority countries, then we need to say, I'm sorry.
00:33:17.420You know, you have a certain belief system, but it's not going to be we're not going to compromise our sovereignty and the safety of this nation to accommodate it.
00:33:27.380And the point I wanted to mention was down in the United States, there's we hear a lot about Texas and Epic City and this huge mosque that was going to be built there on many acres.
00:33:37.480And it was going to be a Sharia compliant and Islamic society within the American society.
00:33:44.320And it's happening in Michigan and other places where the Muslims are very boldly and under the radar coming in and getting these pieces of property and bringing Sharia law, which is anti-Canadian.
00:33:55.620I mean, it's actually in violation of our Canadian constitution and the American constitution.
00:34:00.480Well, finally, the governor of Texas is coming out boldly speaking out against Epic City.
00:34:06.240And they're actually doing now investigations.
00:34:09.200They're investigating the leaders who are well-known imams that pose significant security threats to Americans.
00:34:16.040And so I am praying that Trump is going to take this very seriously and that ripple effect will start in other nations and that we can take down Islam.
00:34:25.940And that's that's got to be one of the central ones.
00:34:28.760And I personally am very, very discouraged that that wasn't one of the main topics during the election.
00:34:35.180And I thank you for being willing to talk about this issue, Maxime.
00:34:39.120Yeah, no, it's important because our goal, you know, is to save our civilization, to save this country.
00:34:46.360I said, you know, we are the last hope.
00:34:49.720We when I'm saying we action for Canada and political parties like Christian heritage and us, we understand what is happening.
00:34:59.060We can see what happened in France with Marine Le Pen and what they did to her to be sure that she won't be a candidate.
00:35:06.540I think she will be able to be a candidate.
00:35:09.560But, you know, our society, our Western societies, how come we are opening our doors to everybody?
00:35:16.060But, you know, in Japan, they don't do that.
00:36:00.820I'll walk down the street and there's not one person I can pass that is actually speaking English when I pass them, standing at the bank, the grocery store.
00:36:57.680The other person that I want to mention as an example is Geert Wilders in the Netherlands,
00:37:03.860who for 20 years has been under security because of the huge population that has grown in the Netherlands.
00:37:12.480And he is committed to banning the Koran, to banning the mosque, to shutting these things down because he is very boldly speaking about how Islam is a threat to national sovereignty.
00:37:23.000We see that throughout France, Britain, because we don't have elected officials who are willing to absolutely close the door on this one.
00:37:30.180And so we've got to learn from these elected officials.
00:37:32.840He also won a majority after brutal 20 years of fighting for that.
00:37:37.520So, Maxime, thank you for not, I'm sure you must feel some days of discouragement, but you have the tenacity that we need to consider where that is coming from,
00:37:48.000that is coming from a place of fear in people.
00:37:50.620And we're going to continue to pray for Canadians that they can move past that and really get involved, not give up.
00:39:23.400We need to build our own organization also.
00:39:26.260But the future in our side, if we are standing up and speaking out about our ideas, we talk, you know, with courage and conviction, because sometimes it can be difficult to express your point of view.
00:40:33.900This is, I always say, an epic battle between good and evil.
00:40:37.500And even those people that would call this a secular nation are realizing, yeah, this is a pretty big battle.
00:40:43.680And I can't deny that there's evil in the world any longer after experiencing what's happened in the last 10 years.
00:40:50.120And especially the last five years as we traversed through the so-called COVID-19 and saw the extent of the depravity and cruelness that these globalist leaders were willing to go to in order to eliminate human beings from the earth and to divide citizens.
00:41:17.660The leader of the Liberal Party is very much infiltrated in the global agenda.
00:41:24.480And so thank God, thank the Lord that he has a minority government.
00:41:30.420And so we need to really focus on lobbying government.
00:41:33.780And I really genuinely mean that we have to appeal to our elected officials at the community level.
00:41:42.480And I've said many times that the World Economic Forum declared that the communities, the municipalities were closest to the people.
00:41:51.300And that's how they could promote and implement the greatest change.
00:41:55.720You see that with them providing all these government financial incentives to insert these 15-minute cities.
00:42:04.780And just on so many levels, the radical LGBTQ mob, the mafia, I call them, that are going after our children and have somehow infiltrated our school boards.
00:42:18.660Because this happens at the community level.
00:42:21.240And so Action for Canada is going to continue to work to build chapters.
00:42:26.700We need good, solid, strong chapter leaders to join us.
00:42:42.960And to be honest, some had a problem with Action for Canada's stand for a lack of knowledge where the stand was when I started talking about the globalist agenda to use the natives, the so-called indigenous people, as pawns in order to steal Canadians' land and to victimize this group of people.
00:43:04.320And also, with the purpose of this massive wealth transfer, hundreds of billions of dollars, and on initiatives like the Kamloops initiative against the false narrative of these mass graves, which is a complete hoax, and then millions and millions of dollars that are unaccounted for.
00:43:29.080I'll take the hit in the chin initially when we speak boldly about some hard truths because they need to be heard.
00:43:35.660And it may take six months, and it may take, you know, a year for Canadians to catch up to what it is that we're trying, the message that we're trying to reveal to them, the truth and the facts, because you've been brainwashed for so long.
00:43:52.600And so, we need to grow Action for Canada.
00:43:55.160I think that our team has stood the test of time, and that we have earned the public's trust in the way that we've managed everything.
00:44:03.600We've got our legal action against the BC and Liberal government still moving forward.
00:44:08.500We have the legal action that's been commenced against Action for Canada by this drag queen, with this fraudulent, trumped-up charges against Action for Canada, false defamation claims.
00:44:20.260And so, we're going to be fighting that.
00:44:23.720We need your monthly commitment and the one-time gifts.
00:44:28.240And I want to take this opportunity to thank our monthly donors, to thank everybody who is sacrificially giving those one-time donations, because you keep us going.
00:44:39.980And I also want to thank our team, the majority of who are all volunteering their time, sacrificially, but willingly volunteering their time for this fight.
00:44:52.440And then there's the very small national team that we have that do get some funding, but I'm telling you, it is just so minimal.
00:45:05.340We are doing this willingly because we believe in this country, and we believe that the fight is worth it because the future generations are relying on it.
00:45:15.220So, these are desperate times call for desperate measures.
00:45:17.980This calls for me appealing time and time again.
00:45:26.060I don't want to feel like just quitting because we don't have support.
00:45:29.300And the reason I say that is because we were calling people to come and attend Waterloo, the Waterloo Catholic School District, on Monday night.
00:45:40.400And I hear that about 30 of our people showed up compared to 100 of the LGBTQ colorful people.
00:45:48.580So, how bad do we really want to rescue our kids from the hands of this evil snare?
00:45:56.420And we all, you know, the weather is getting better.
00:46:01.020You can see I'm not boasting a suntan.
00:46:03.560I sit inside and watch the sun outside.
00:46:09.000And, you know, I've given up a lot around my home in taking care of it.
00:46:13.180I'm trying to commit some time now to catching up on a few years of things that I need to take care of.
00:46:18.340But there is sacrifice that we all need to put forward in order to win this battle.
00:46:26.700And, yes, I am praying that an election will be in two years and that we will see a better result.
00:46:31.780But I'm going to just tap into your conscience here a little bit and to your goodness and to the things that think.
00:46:37.740And sometimes you say, well, there's no use going to that event because we're losing.
00:46:41.940No, there's every reason to go to that event.
00:46:45.420And in a couple of weeks, I'll do the Empower Hour where I'll give a weekly update.
00:46:51.120And it was in Dublin where it must have been 100,000 people came out on the streets opposing the mass immigration of all the Muslims coming into their country.
00:47:03.040And so we see these crowds of Palestinians and Muslims showing up on our streets.
00:47:07.840Can you imagine if Canadians committed that kind of time to come out in the hundreds of thousands and then our elected officials say, yeah, which way do you want to politically pander on this?
00:47:19.540So there is so much that we could do and we've got some really great ideas, but we need commitment.
00:47:25.340We really need commitment and show up at our chapter leader meetings because, you know, they need your support.
00:47:31.060And we've got some really incredible campaign strategies and resources that have been very effective and they would be so much more effective if we had the kind of numbers we needed to overturn this.
00:47:44.980We can we can prolong it another 10 years or we can get her done in the next in the next two years.
00:48:52.320We're going to honor him next week and have him on the show and support him, continue to support him and give him our thanks.
00:48:58.180It's just, you know, so much loss personally that he has endured in the background that the majority of the public don't know the battle that he was going on on a personal level and a professional level.
00:49:11.440They burned down his town, for instance.
00:49:32.880I urge then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and thanksgiving be made for everyone, for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.
00:49:47.240You will not believe the power of prayer, even in the face of evil kings, of evil rulers.
00:49:53.400And it says that God is, he's still on the throne.
00:50:00.780I've been saying this for years, that he will raise up evil rulers so that a country will get back to living a moral, biblical life founded on biblical principles.
00:50:12.600Those are good things, like you shall not murder, and you shall not lie, and you shall not commit adultery, and you'll honor your fathers and mothers.
00:50:35.360You go set up your mosques and your temples, and you bring all your failed evil systems here.
00:50:40.560And, you know, all those cultures, cultural belief systems are failing in those countries, and the majority of those citizens are living miserable lives.
00:50:48.300And now they're bringing all of that here because we didn't close the door on it.
00:51:12.460So when we pray for our kings, I will pray that either Lord raise them up or take them out.
00:51:18.140Sometimes it's as simple as that because I know how evil they are.
00:51:21.120And last week, I talked about that vengeance is the Lord's.
00:51:25.320But when we also, I want to clarify at this time, I had put a post out there asking people what they thought about capital punishment, the death penalty.
00:51:36.520And because it's actually biblical in Ezekiel in the Old Testament and in the New Testament.
00:51:41.780And somebody came back with a Bible verse that says, oh, you know, vengeance is the Lord.
00:51:45.860I says, we're not talking about vengeance.
00:51:52.080There's a big difference between those two.
00:51:54.500And so sometimes with the kind of crimes that have been committed against our children and the kind of mass murder that has been committed in our land,
00:52:01.940sometimes that justice involves the death penalty.