00:29:32.600because bell is crippling themselves here bell is taking themselves out of the game and i'm not sure
00:29:42.960if they're doing this on purpose because they've been operating with these losses for quite some
00:29:47.280time now so finally all of a sudden today they decide ah we're going to lay off 1300 people no
00:29:52.540big deal and they're coming up with lame excuses right this gives you a little bit of a look
00:30:01.220inside what's really going on in canadian media they cannot exist without the federal government
00:30:08.500And that's sad. That is incredibly sad. Let's say hello to Maxime Bernier. He is the leader of the People's Party of Canada. Max, you're late, buddy. What happened?
00:30:18.800I was with another show. Sorry about it. But I'm pleased to be with you.
00:30:23.900I am pleased to be with you as well. How is the campaign going so far? Is it positive?
00:30:28.400Oh, yeah. It's very busy. You know, this day was a great day.
00:30:31.800I did the door knocking, meeting with people, working on the, we just did a new also radio ad for the end of the campaign.
00:30:42.160So it's busy. It's going well. And I like it.
00:30:45.720OK, excellent. Listen, I'm hearing from my political contacts in Ottawa.
00:30:48.800I've got a few people who work in the inner circles there.
00:30:51.580And they're telling me that NDP membership and, by extension, the National Caucus is putting a little pressure on Jagmeet Singh to maybe break his deal with Justin Trudeau over these Chinese election interference allegations, which could trigger an election as early as this fall.
00:31:09.520Would the PPC be ready for something like that?
00:31:12.560Absolutely. You know, that's why we started, you know, to look at for candidates across the country.
00:31:17.740We have about 100 candidates selected, approved, ready to run if there's an election.
00:31:25.920And before the end of this year, we'll have another 150.
00:33:13.220It came out yesterday at about 5 o'clock,
00:33:15.640and he pointed out his thoughts on why Donald Trump
00:33:17.740became the enemy to the establishment.
00:33:20.760And his reasoning is that during the 2016 Republican primary debates,
00:33:25.680Trump said, we never should have been in Iraq. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and they knew there were none. This after years of lies from the U.S. Uniparty until finally that went away. Why has the media consistently portrayed you and the People's Party of Canada as far right?
00:33:46.840Who did you piss off? Was there one moment where all of a sudden things turned on you?
00:33:51.340Because you were, you know, a cabinet minister in the Harper government.
00:34:38.120So that's why they don't want to cover us.
00:34:40.160And for them, we have a vision of this country that is very different than their vision.
00:34:50.160You know, they want to divide everybody by race, by their sexual orientation, by their, you know, medical status like they did with COVID-19.
00:35:00.980And we want to unite every Canadian under the freedom umbrella.
00:35:05.440And we want every Canadian to be able to do what they want.
00:35:09.540And also, we believe in parental rights.
00:35:12.580So that's very different than the leftists and the socialists.
00:35:20.060But I know that you're showing our platform, but that's why we are doing politics differently,
00:35:25.800because we have strong ideas and we are promoting that.
00:35:29.220But if you go on the website of the Conservative Party of Canada, I try to find Pierre Poliev's electoral platform.
00:35:38.620You won't be able to find it because there's no platform.
00:35:43.340Pierre Poliev doesn't know right now in 2023 what he will believe in 2025 at the election,
00:35:51.460because he will need to do focus group and polling at that time to tell you what you want to hear.
00:35:56.660But we believe that the population has been manipulated and is manipulated by the mainstream media and the leftists.
00:36:08.120And we must, you know, have a vision and speaking about that vision and leading the public opinion and not following the public opinion like Poliev is doing right now.
00:36:19.380Max, don't you understand that you're anti-immigration and a climate denier?
00:38:48.340They don't want to bring our ideas at the national level on immigration, on abortion, because they know that they won't be able to win the argument.
00:41:29.800We are fighting these globalists, but they're everywhere in Ottawa in these establishment political parties.
00:41:37.020What about your opponent there at Portage-Lisgar, Brandon Leslie, running for the Conservative Party of Canada?
00:41:42.800He's quoted as saying that they are following the Paris Climate Accords and that there is man-made climate change out there.
00:41:51.900Have you been hammering him on that? Because he's hammering you on your trip to Davos about 15 years ago.
00:41:56.920Yeah, but, you know, I'm very happy that, you know, that the only thing that they have against me, they're saying because I was in Davos in 15 years ago when I was a conservative, by the way, and that was the, I was a foreign affairs minister and I was in Davos to help our Canadian forces to have the right equipment.
00:42:19.340And yes, I did have some private meetings with other foreign affairs ministers because that was my job and that was very successful.
00:42:28.220But I was not at their meeting. I did my own personal meetings and I had my own agenda there.
00:42:34.760And I did not deliver any speeches when I was there, contrary to Stephen Harper when he was there.
00:42:41.080He praised Schwab about his World Economic Front.
00:42:47.080I was there to do my job, to find more support for our Canadian forces coming from other countries.
00:42:52.440I was successful. I was there two days.
00:42:54.820But they don't want to have a discussion about our platform because they know that we are the real conservative party, the real populist conservative party.
00:43:03.640And I must add, we are the new reform party.
00:43:06.660And so they know that their banks love our platform.
00:43:11.600So what they try during that campaign,
00:43:14.120the only things that they have against me is I was in Davos
00:43:17.560when Steve Harper asked me to do that.
00:43:20.300And I was doing my job as one FM minister
00:43:22.640to try to have more support for our Canadian forces in Kandahar.
00:44:28.480So he is in line with that globalist agenda.
00:44:31.320He believes that we must do everything to fight that climate emergency.
00:44:36.280And, you know, for me, I'm not a surprise because his position is in line with the position of the leader of Pierre Poliev, of the Conservative Party.
00:44:46.820So, and I understand that more people in the riding understand that.
00:44:52.140And that's why it's going well in the riding.
00:44:54.480And that's why the conservatives are doing everything, everything to discredit me without challenging me on the platform.
00:45:04.020And I must tell you that I asked the first day that I was here, I'm in the riding full time.
00:45:09.920I arrived, I believe, four weeks ago, sorry, to campaign.
00:45:17.040And they didn't want to have any debate with me.
00:45:21.040I asked for a debate and he always said no.
00:46:41.020As you remember, in Canada, in 1988, Brian Maroney was the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. We had a general election. It was about the free trade with the U.S. And Brian Maroney had the biggest majority in the history of our country.
00:47:02.000But what happened? The next election, because Brian Moroney was pandering to Quebec and Ontario, and yes, to the Laurentian elite, and people at West were mad. And in 1993, at the next election, Moroney was able to elect only two Conservative MPs, only two.
00:47:23.340And Western Canada decided enough is enough with the Progressive Conservative Party.
00:47:52.360And we are the new reform party. We are the only principled political party. And it's time to send that message and do like you did in 1993. And I'll be that guy. And, you know, there's no risk to do that.
00:48:08.700Because if Poliev has the courage to act like a conservative, I will support him.
00:48:42.820Some tweets, because as you know, we had 5% of the vote.
00:48:47.220I'm speaking about the electoral system.
00:48:49.780We had 5% of the vote, but zero representation in the House of Commons.
00:48:55.120And I don't want to have 5% of the members of Parliament in the House of Commons.
00:49:00.960But we may add and we must add some representativity in our system.
00:49:06.640And, you know, that's not normal. We represent 800,000 and 41,000 people who voted for us. And these people don't have a voice in parliament. So yes, I believe that we must tweak the system a little bit to add more representativity in that system to be sure that if you have five or six percent of the vote, you'd be able to have at least one percent of the seat in parliament.
00:49:34.760Do we need to remove ourselves from the crown, get rid of the governor general, replace that position with something elected and give that person actual power to keep the House of Commons in check and maybe have an elected Senate? What do you think?
00:49:49.160Yeah, I'm not for an elective Senate because, you know, if you do that, you'll have 60 percent of the provinces across the country that will have the control of the Senate.
00:50:03.28060% of the, you know, have not provinces, all the Maritimes provinces would have the same number of seat and vote than the other provinces and Quebec.
00:50:20.460So you add all that together, you have the majority of the provinces that have have not provinces that they want more support from Ottawa, more money from Ottawa, and they will control the Senate.
00:50:32.760We don't want that. We want a federal government that will have a smaller government and not interfering in provincial jurisdictions. I don't want to give more legitimacy to the Senate for them to be able to impose more of their vision and more redistribution of money and more equalization to Avnod provinces.
00:50:54.720That must be the opposite. We must give less money to the Afnot provinces. We must give them the right incentive to develop their own natural resources for them to become richer.0.79
00:51:08.640So I believe that on the role of the governor general, we must not have that link with the king. We can do that. We can decide the governor general would be the head of state without changing our electoral system and no more link with the UK and the queen and the king.
00:51:32.100We can do that like other countries did.
00:51:35.280Just cutting our link with the monarchy,
00:51:39.120it's something that we must do, I believe so.
00:51:54.800I prefer that we can have more proportionality in that system.
00:51:58.520But, you know, it's very difficult to have the best democratic system, but we have a good one.
00:52:04.100We can improve it by cutting our link with the monarchy.
00:52:07.960And at the same time, I did more represent, representativity in our system.
00:52:13.160And I think the Senate that won't be elected, because if you have an elected Senate, the federal government will have more legitimacy to impose on other provinces their wish.
00:52:25.200last question for you tonight max i know you've had a long day uh danielle smith the premier of
00:52:31.360alberta recently re-elected premier of alberta was she claims anyway on twitter today um limited
00:52:37.440on facebook meaning that she can't post for a few days they told her they don't give her a reason as
00:52:44.060to why but she says as the premier of a province of 4.6 million albertans if they can prevent me
00:52:51.320from communicating with you imagine what they can do to any one of us this whole business with bill
00:52:58.040c11 bill c18 uh it is all about censorship is there a way even if they do pass c18 in in this
00:53:06.000session of the house of commons before they rise for the summer is there any way we can fight that
00:53:10.900legally i know you're against it so i'm not going to ask you that question yeah first of all we must
00:53:16.380repeal this bill, but yes, we must fight legally, you know. And actually, I hope that she will do
00:53:22.800it. Same thing for me. I'm shadow banned on Twitter. But remember, we have that censorship
00:53:31.040coming from the big tech, and we have censorship coming from the federal government. People must
00:53:37.160realize that, you know, we are not in a real democracy when you have that. When you have the
00:53:43.060premier of a province that cannot be out there on Facebook, and she's such shadow ban, something
00:53:51.400happened in our country. Yes, she must fight that. We must fight that. Actually, in Florida,
00:53:57.880dissentists did fight that, and it's before the court right now. But yeah, it's the future of
00:54:06.280our society? Do we want? We had censorship during COVID-19. That must end. And people must realize
00:54:14.700that. They must. It's so difficult today to be in touch with Canadians. You know, I had a
00:54:20.600conversation with Jordan Peterson a long time ago, and I was telling him, you know, the mainstream
00:54:26.540media are canceling me. It's a little bit difficult to have a fair coverage. And he told me at that
00:54:32.840time, Maxine. Forget the mainstream media and be on social media, be active. You know, the future
00:54:40.020is on social media. More people are taking their news on social media. I agree with that. But,
00:54:47.180you know, if we have censorship on social media, we're not winning. So that's important. And we
00:54:53.720must have a national discussion about that, about the censorship that is happening here in Canada.