(0:00 - 2:03) With a federal election very likely to happen within the next few months, Canadians will be going to the polls with a long list of concerns. In fact, there may be no other election in Canadian history when there were so many points of contention between the right and the left. Carbon taxes and environmental policies, immigration and the societal and economic impacts of mass immigration, potential tariffs of 25% from Trump's government, DEI hiring policies, the housing and cost of living crisis, and the state of our military are just a few. Adding to the debate are observations of Donald Trump's actions as U.S. President since taking office on January 20th, where President Trump has signed a laundry list of executive orders to return America to financial responsibility and government for the majority by the majority. Many small-c conservative Canadians are very much in agreement with Trump's decisions and openly lament that we don't have a party here in Canada with much the same platform. But in fact, we do. The People's Party of Canada, led by Maxime Bernier, openly post their policies on their website in very plain and direct language. And those policies are very similar to those of Trump's Republican government. And furthermore, those policies were in place long before Trump was elected. Maxime joins me today to discuss the issues facing us in the next election and how the People's Party would restore Canada for Canadians. Maxime, it's a pleasure to have you back on the show. Thank you for having me. I'm very pleased to be with you today. And I'm really looking forward to your insights because I'm not sure if there's been a time in recent Canadian history when there's been so much upheaval in politics in this country and what's going on right now. So I wanted to start with the prorogation of Parliament. (2:03 - 2:19) January 6th, Trudeau announces his resignation. He prorogues Parliament in what to me is extremely obvious ploy to avoid a non-confidence vote that would lead to an early election. Your opinion on this and what impact it's having on Canada because the very good case has been made. (2:19 - 5:27) Well, the Parliament's not in session. Nothing's happening. Yeah. Yeah. It's sad that Trudeau did that. You're right. He did it to be sure to stay in government. And actually, that's not a precedent. Stephen Harper did it in 2008 to actually be able to stay in government. At that time, the Liberals wanted to have a coalition with the Bloc Québécois. And they were ready to do a confidence vote. And Harper did prorogue the federal Parliament. So that being said, it is constitutional. You know, it is constitutional. And that's why the governor general said yes. But the good news about that, the new or the future leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Mark Carney, he will be the leader March 9. And he said in an interview that he will call the election as soon as he is elected. So that's good news for us. I don't think that the Parliament will resume March 24 because we will be in election at that time. So for me, we needed to have an election as soon as possible. And it is looking like we will have that election. The election day must be in April, maybe the second or third week of April. But yeah, we'll have an election and we'll have a government that will be elected. And Carney wants to do that because he for sure wants to win. But he will ask for a mandate to be able to negotiate with Donald Trump. And Poilievre will do the same. So let's have an election as soon as possible. We are ready at the People's Party. And we will fight for real conservative family ideas, free market ideas, bold policies. And we may have time to speak about that today. Now, I certainly hope we will. But I do want one more comment from you on this, because when we look at the polls, where prior to Trudeau announcing his resignation, there was a wide gap between the conservatives and liberals. They were predicting a conservative majority. And then as soon as Trudeau announces his resignation, the liberal polls start to climb to the point where recently they're almost closed with the conservatives. And the thing that I think is significant about this is despite Carney's supposed popularity, the climb didn't start when Carney announced his campaign. It started when Trudeau announced his resignation. So what do you think is going through the minds of liberal voters? Is it Carney or is it just that we've gotten rid of Trudeau? Yeah. But what we can see right now, you're right about what you said in the polls. If you look at the polls right now, Polyev may be able to win with a majority, but Carney is doing very well. So that is showing me that the Conservative Party of Canada is splitting the vote with the liberals. (5:27 - 7:47) So not the People's Party. They are splitting the liberal votes. And what would happen? I still believe that Polyev will be elected with a majority. If you look in the history of our country, you have nine years of liberals and people are fed up, and nine years of conservatives, people are fed up. Look, when Brian Mulroney, in 1993, when he resigned, he was not that popular and the party was not popular. And they decided to have a leadership contest. They put Kim Campbell, the first lady, the first woman leader of a national political party. She went up in the polls and she was very popular. And the Conservative Party of Canada was able to grow in the polls and being competitive. But what happened? The liberal won with a huge majority and Jean Chrétien was the next prime minister. So people will vote, answering your questions, people will vote against the liberals, not for Poilievre, against the liberal. And now Carney is doing well in the polls. He has the support of the mainstream media. For the mainstream media, you know, the mainstream media is putting Carney, you know, like the new one and the best prime minister. So, but that will do a time. And during the election campaign, the People's Party would be able to show why we must have a seat and people must support us and why, you know, the liberals under Carney won't change anything on big issues that are important for the future of this country. Thank you, Maxime, for your insights on that. I wanted to get that question out of the way, because the only one where the People's Party of Canada's platform isn't directly relevant to the question. So now we can get into talking about not only what is happening, but what in your view should be happening. The carbon tax has been the most contentious issue. It's probably the single largest thing that this election is going to be based upon. Obviously, it's Trudeau who's been pushing this thing. Carney was very much behind it. But now he's saying he'll scrap it, although if you listen closely, what he really said was he'll scrap the consumer carbon tax. (7:47 - 8:14) And he's going to replace it with some sort of green initiative. And he hasn't given us any details on that. Poilievre, of course, is saying scrap the tax entirely. I have two questions for you, Maxime. Number one, what has been the economic impact on Canada of these carbon taxes? And what will be the benefit of getting rid of them? Because I know that you are in favour of completely scrapping them. There is a major stock market crash coming that will rival the crash of 1929. 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Now, you know, the liberals are in agreement with him. They are saying, yeah, we're going to ask the tax also. So there is no more election about asking the carbon tax. Both Poilievre and Trudeau agree that we will follow the Paris Accord. (10:47 - 11:54) They will do everything for our country to achieve the Paris Accord targets. And Poilievre won't impose a tax. He may impose more regulations on businesses and all these regulations. It's always a cost for the consumers. He will do everything to fight climate change. He will give subsidies to the green industry. And Carney will do the same. And like you said, he may come back with another kind of a tax. We are the only party that is very different. It's not that we want to impose a carbon tax. We won't sign the Paris Accord. We will withdraw from the Paris Accord. We won't do anything for the climate. We don't believe that there's a climate emergency in this country. We will save a lot of money. We won't give subsidies to the green industry. We will promote oil and gas and build pipelines. That's the most important. But on climate change, Poilievre and Carney, the Conservatives and the Liberals agree. They want us to fight climate change. And they think that there's a climate emergency in this country. (11:55 - 12:30) Right. And you know, from speaking to me in the past, I completely agree with me. The entire global warming, man-made global warming narrative is utter bull. It's not happening. It could be easily disproven. But you've got a problem there, Maxime, with scrapping it, withdrawing from the Paris Accord, and that a lot of Canadians are still buying it. So how would you address that? How are you going to get across to these Canadians who still believe in this? I've spoken to young, especially young people, teenagers, who are not planning for their future because they're absolutely convinced we're all going to be dead in 10 years. That's just how infected with this idea they are. How do you get through to somebody like that?