Quotes from Maxime Bernier

We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

The People's Party, I am working for the people and we want to put the power back in people.

I think it is not important to have the free trade agreement with China.

Prosperity has nothing to do with the quantity of money that we have in our pockets, but rather with the quantity of goods that we can buy.

They call me the Albertan of Quebec. It stuck.

We must give less money to these provinces, like my own province of Quebec, and give them the right incentive to develop their own natural resources and their economy.

The electric car, it's not the government saying, 'Oh, we must have electric cars.' The market was ready for that. People were ready for that, so, we have electric cars.

We must go back and we must be sure that our immigrants will be well-integrated into our society, and the best way to do that is to have more economic immigrants, less refugees a little bit and less reunufication of families.

People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.

I may be a dreamer, but I think monetary economics should be a hot topic.

Monetary policy is one of the most difficult topics in economics. But also, I believe, a topic of absolutely crucial importance for our prosperity.

We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.

We want First Nations and these people to be like Canadians on a lot of points of view. Right now, that's not normal that they cannot have running water on reserve. We need to fix that, but it must not be imposed by Ottawa, a top-down bureaucratic decision.

You can shut down our economy and the effect on climate change, it will be nothing.

Brian Mulroney came to power in 1984 and privatized Petro-Canada, brought in the GST and signed the free trade agreement with the U.S. He was a great prime minister and made bold conservative changes. That's all I want to do.

You can be of any ethnic background or faith and be a Canadian if you share fundamental Canadian values, learn about our history and culture, and integrate in our society.

I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.

A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

If you're choosing somebody that doesn't have the competence, but because it's a young guy, or it's a lady or if it's a man, it's a positive discrimination and I won't push that.

It's nice to have dreams, but when you use borrowed money to achieve them and act as if money grows on trees, you may have a brutal awakening.

A small group of motivated citizens can potentially have as much influence as a lobby group spending millions of dollars.

I want a smaller government, yes, but I want a government that will be fair.

It's federal jurisdiction, so the federal government can approve pipelines.