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: CS1 maint: postscript (link)Libertarian leader Tim Moen had offered to step aside for Bernier following the results of the 2017 Conservative leadership race and adopted Bernier's platform.
Bernier explains that he is using social media to fundraise in which he argues that it gives him a lower net cost than either the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party and plans to hire an independent outside firm to investigate the candidates' backgrounds in addition to having a background check, which he argues that neither the Conservative Party or the Liberal Party do.
People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier paid a visit to Elections Canada's headquarters Wednesday morning, to submit his application to register a new political party.
The party went into the campaign pledging to nominate a candidate for all 338 ridings, but secured 326 and only registered 315 by Elections Canada's nomination deadline.
For the February 25 by-elections, they announced candidates Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson for Burnaby South. In subsequent weeks the party ran Robert Geurts for York-Simcoe on January 15 and Jamie Seale for Outremont Jennifer M. Clarke, the party candidate for Nanaimo—Ladysmith by-election was called for May 6, 2019.
By asking his followers on Facebook and Twitter to join regional groups to form what he is calling The People's Network, Bernier is encouraging supporters to work together to start groups for their own regions.
Founding members is an original member of a group
... Canada's first racialized federal party leader repeatedly squared off against the boss of the country's newest far-right party at the English-language election debate.
The People's Party has faced numerous controversies since Bernier, a former Conservative minister, quit his party in disgust in August 2018 to form a new one. For one, it fired the head of its St. Catharines riding association after he was alleged to have been tied to an American neo-Nazi group. Bernier has said 'racists and bigots are not welcome in our party.' On Monday, Bernier defended his past tweets about immigrants being in 'ghettos' and 'tribes,' saying 'we must have fewer immigrants in this country.'
He added that his heart goes out to the 315 PPC candidates across the country.
The wildcard coming into the evening was Maxime Bernier, leader of the far-right populist party the People's party of Canada. Formed amid a feud between Bernier and the Conservative party, its platform is defined by restrictive immigration politics and climate change denial.
He [Trudeau] continued attacking Scheer on the economy in an at-times chaotic three-way debate segment with the Conservative leader and far-right People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier.