A biography for Maxime Bernierhasn’t been written yet.
“Taxing corporations means unnecessarily burdening our wealth-creating machines.”
“The free market, the people, will find solutions and they always did in the past.”
“When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices.”
“Justin Trudeau is always saying diversity's our strength. It is not our strength.”
“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.”
“Yes, I worked in Montreal. I worked there for 20 years... I came back to Beauce in 2006 to represent the Beaucerons.”
“People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.”
“My party will do nothing on climate change because environment, it's a shared jurisdiction, and provinces, they have programs for that, and so I'll let provinces decide what they're going to do to fight climate change.”
“I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.”
“I don't care a bit about people's race or skin colour.”
“Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.”
“I don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe in having a challenge to integrate their new immigrants.”
“For me, I don't have to defend myself that I am not a racist. I won't go in that discussion.”
“I can understand why immigrants would want to bring the rest of their extended family here, including older ones who will benefit from our health-care system.”
“I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.”
“I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.”
“From the perspective of corporations, taxes are an additional cost of doing business. If you increase their taxes, to remain profitable they will have to find ways to lower other costs, or to increase revenues.”
“I'm very different from other politicians.”
“We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.”
“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.”