Maxime Bernier is the candidate for Prime Minister of the Conservative Party of Canada in the upcoming federal election. In this interview, Maxime talks about why he decided to vote for Andrew Scheer and why he thinks he can win the election.
00:00:00.000So the big arguments that we had against us at the national election was, oh, Maxime, I like your platform, but I want to get rid of Justin Trudeau.
00:00:12.180And, you know, I will vote conservative.
00:00:15.040I will vote for Andrew Scheer because I don't want to split the vote.
00:00:19.080That argument about splitting the vote was very efficient against us.
00:00:24.040So this time I was in B.C. I was in Alberta and Saskatchewan and people came to me and some of them said, Maxime, I'm sorry.
00:00:33.620I said, why? Because I didn't vote for you last time. I didn't want to split the vote.
00:00:38.200I voted for O'Toole. But this time I will vote for you.
00:00:42.020And I'm asking a question, why? Because O'Toole and they're saying that O'Toole won't win.
00:00:47.860I don't want to waste my vote. I will vote for what I believe.
00:00:52.140And you're the only conservative party in Canada right now.
00:00:55.800And I appreciate that answer because it was very important in 2019 to get rid of Justin Trudeau for these people.
00:01:04.040But now they understand that maybe Justin Trudeau will win again and maybe Justin Trudeau will be in government for four years.
00:01:11.720And they're OK with that. They understand the situation.
00:01:16.960And now they need a voice, a new voice in Ottawa.
00:01:20.580And they're ready to support us, knowing that I won't be prime minister after the next election.
00:01:26.040So that's a big shift and in our favor.
00:01:29.500And that's why I think we'll have more support.
00:01:32.080We'll have some candidates that will be elected and we'll have a voice.
00:01:37.460And the mainstream media at that time will cover us and we will force the other political parties, establishment parties in Ottawa, to have the debate that they don't want to have.
00:01:48.720To have the debate on cancel culture, on socialism, on abortion.
00:01:56.320If we table a bill on abortion, on any issues that are important, on the equalization formula at West that is unfair for every province, we need to have a debate.
00:02:10.720And we'll bring this debate and that will be important.