Quotes from Maxime Bernier

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

Some may remember that, in 2010, I publicly broke ranks with my colleagues from the Quebec City area who were pushing our government to subsidize a new sports amphitheater in the city. They had seized on this popular project to... What else? Buy votes.

Do we want to emphasize our ethnic and religious differences, and exploit them to buy votes, as the Liberals are doing? Or emphasize what unites us and the values that can guarantee social cohesion?

What is best for the Beauce is what is best for Canada.

Integrating is easier when you have a job in Canada.

A person that wants to come to our country must share our Canadian values.

We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

I am saying to Canadians, there is no climate emergency in this country.

I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

You must believe in people. You must give back their money in their own pockets.

I believe in climate change.

I don't care a bit about people's race or skin colour.

I don't care one bit about people's race or skin colour.

I am not a communist.

Canadians are a compassionate people and we should be. But at what cost?

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

You cannot build public policies on sentiment, on panic and fear.

Actually, I'm the only politician in Ottawa who is against the Paris Accord.

I think here in Beauce, people are very honest. And they don't like a politician that will say something one day and the opposite the other day.

You know, I'm a free market politician and I think I'm the only one who worked for think-tanks like the Montreal Economic Institute.

We are doing politics differently - smart, populist, political movement.

We Conservatives believe not in big, interventionist, centralized government. But in small and limited government, government as close to the people as possible.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

Taxing corporations means unnecessarily burdening our wealth-creating machines.