Does Poilievre pose a threat to the People’s Party and Bernier？
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Summary
Pierre Polievre is the favourite to become the next Conservative Party of Canada's next leader, but is he a serious contender? Maxime Bernier, the current leader of the People s Party Of Canada (PPC) and potential candidate for the next Tory leadership, says that if he wins the party s nomination, it will be a disaster for Justin Trudeau and the Liberals.
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Perceived frontrunner in the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race Pierre Polievre isn't
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only seen as a threat to Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, but also to Maxime Bernier and the
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People's Party of Canada. Both men share similar ideas including wanting to repeal all COVID-19
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mandates and restrictions. Polievre and Bernier's events have both attracted large crowds and both
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men marched with veteran James Taub in Ottawa as he ended his incredible journey. I had the
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opportunity to catch up with Bernier at a picnic the PPC held in Ottawa Strathcona Park on Canada Day
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and I asked whether or not a Conservative Party led by Pierre Polievre would threaten him and his party.
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This is what he had to say. Aren't you worried that if Pierre Polievre ruins the Conservative
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leadership that the PPC could be maybe decimated? No, no. First of all people must know that Pierre
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Polievre were not there when we needed him, when we needed the Conservative Party of Canada the last
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two years. Pierre Polievre is a career politician. He was elected for the first time at 24 years old.
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He never had a real boss and also he's an opportunist politician because of all Canadians and Tamara and
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James and James and everybody that everybody were there in Ottawa during that freedom convoy. It's
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because of them that we're able to grow our support from a tiny minority to a stronger minority and when
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it was not popular to speak about freedom Pierre did it. He did it the last week of the freedom convoy and at
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that time he took he did a photo op with a tracker. He was not there in from the parliament. It was to
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I don't know. I don't know. He wasn't there because you know at that time
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he doesn't want to be with us because of the mainstream media. He was listening to mainstream media
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and the polls so you cannot count on him to defend our civilization and our freedoms. But I'm very pleased
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that today he's speaking like that. But I believe that you must judge a man and a politician by his
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action. Where were he the last two years? Nowhere to be seen. So that being said he may win the
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leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. But like I said in 2018 when I resigned from that party
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I said the Conservative Party of Canada is intellectually and morally corrupt because they are not conservative.
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They're only conservative in name and they're speaking about leftist values and they're promoting
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socialism. So when you do that and you have as the name a conservative you are giving more credibility
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to the leftist narrative. That's what the Conservative Party is doing. And I believe that with Poliev,
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O'Toole or another leader their only goal is to be in government and when they'll be in government
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they will be the same like the Liberals because they won't have any mandates to do bold reforms.
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They don't they don't speak about that. So they will go to the left because they will need to have
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the support of the people living in the GDA and there's more seats in the GDA than in all Alberta.
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So Poliev will will do his transition maybe in a couple of months after winning the leadership.
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So but us the BBC we are we will be always there. We're not doing politics by survey on polling.
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We're doing politics by conviction and determination and our goal is to speak about freedom and our values
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individual freedom personal responsibility. I did it at the first election in 2019. I did it at the last
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election in 2021 and I'll do it at the next election. That's why we are doing politics differently because
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we're not looking at polling and survey. We have conviction and we believe that they are the best
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conviction. We have a vision for this country based on more freedoms and more prosperity for all Canadians.
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So we won't change our platform before the election. It's always the same platform but for the
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Conservatives they will do polling and focus group and they will tell you what you want to hear and after
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that they will do maybe the opposite when they'll be in government. So we cannot trust establishment
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politicians and establishment political parties. We need to do that freedom revolution that common
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sense revolution and the only vehicle for that is the People's Party of Canada and we are growing you
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know where the mainstream media were saying after our first election or Bernie and the BBC are dead.
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No we started that party in 2018 at with zero percent 2019 our first election 1.6 percent the last
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election 2021 five percent and I can tell you this party will grow and I will travel across the country
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and meet people and meet Canadians and we'll have support from people with different political
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backgrounds that are fed up with the statute quo so they can count on us and I believe that I can count
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on them. Unlike the legacy media True North will always give you objective and fair coverage of right of
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center parties and politicians including Maxime Bernier. For more of our coverage visit tnc.news and
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