Photo L-R: PPC Leader Maxime Bernier, PPC Candidate for Grande Prairie -Mackenzie Shawn McLean

By Erika Rolling

Politics

PPC Leader Maxime Bernier makes stop in Grande Prairie

Aug 16, 2022 | 6:00 AM

Even though it is not election time, the party leader for the People’s Party of Canada Maxime Bernier is on his summer tour across the western part of the country.

Bernier made a stop in Grande Prairie to spread the word of the PPC platform alongside Grande Prairie – Mackenzie’s federal candidate Shawn McLean.

Everything GP got the chance to sit down in an interview with the party leader.

He says he chose to make the stop on his tour in Grande Prairie because there is already a solid foundation here.

“I want to help them build this organization and to be sure that we will be ready for the next election.”

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“My main message is ‘look at the PPC’, I know there are a lot of challenges for you people in Alberta… the established political parties and our national leaders don’t speak about the western part of the nation, and we are.”

“I believe when you have 32 per cent of the population in Alberta that are looking for separation, you must address that as a national leader. But other politicians; Poilievre, Trudeau, or Jagmeet don’t want to speak about that, because if you do, you need a solution, and they don’t have any.” Bernier referred to a study done based on 1,000 people surveyed in December 2021.

He went on to say the party is founded on the beliefs that: the equalization formula needs to be changed to be less generous and pipelines need to be built.

“Individual freedom, personal responsibility, fairness, and respect… and all our policies are in line with these principles,” he says is what the PPC is all about.

Bernier says he was one of the only leaders that spoke out against Covid-19 mandates and restrictions as it “was against my own values”, at the time it started in 2020.

He says his reasoning behind coming to Grande Prairie was to spread the message of the PPC and grow followers before the next federal election.