Juno News - October 25, 2018PREVIEW： Andrew Lawton sits down with Maxime Bernier
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Summary
The People s Party of Canada (PPC) is a new political party formed by former Conservative MP and former MP for the Toronto-area Andrew Scheer and his wife, Candice Simons, who left the party in 2017 to create a new party with a new name, the PPC. In this episode, we talk to Candice and Andrew about how they plan to win the next election, their vision for the future of the party and what they hope to achieve in 2020.
Transcript
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Let's talk about your strategy heading into the election.
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It's about a year away from now, and when you look at ridings that the Conservatives
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won in 2011, when Harper won a majority, and ridings that they then lost in 2015, particularly
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around the Greater Toronto Area, a lot of those ridings were won by the Conservatives
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You throw another party that's going after, in many respects, votes from the right.
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How are you not just going to be a spoiler for Conservatives?
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First of all, before I resigned from the Conservative Party of Canada and we formed the People's
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Party of Canada, Andrew Scheer was at 31 percent in the poll and Justin Trudeau at 39.
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But what we want to do, we want to be sure to have Conservatives that will vote for us,
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but also people who didn't vote at the last election.
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30 percent of the population in the last election didn't bother to go to vote because they didn't
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So we are doing politics differently, and I think that we'll be able to attract these people.
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So having people coming from the Conservative Party of Canada, people coming from other parties
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and people who didn't vote, we can build a kind of coalition and being an alternative.
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And I'm saying to these people who want to be sure to get rid of Justin Trudeau, just watch
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You know, there's 10 percent of the population in Canada right now that they're looking to
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In three, four, five months from now, I think we can grow from there.
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So I'm saying to them who are not sure, come with us and we'll...
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Because if you vote for Andrew Scheer right now and Justin Trudeau, for me that's the same.
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They want to impose strict regulation for carbon emission.
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Yes, they're against carbon tax, but, you know, they believe in that Paris Accord.
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They don't believe in free markets for poultry, dairy, and eggs.
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They want to protect 15,000 producers under the Cartel of Supply Management, and Canadians
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are paying twice the price for that, artificial high prices for these products.
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So they don't... what they're doing right now, they're looking at a poll, they're looking
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at some survey, and they try to please everybody.
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If you like what we are saying, come and come with us and be a member and vote for us.
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If you don't, it's okay, you know, there's other parties and you can vote for the other
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So that's a big difference between us and these two old parties, and I'm saying to them, if you
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want to be sure to be Justin Trudeau and you're a real conservative, come with