Maxime Bernier challenges Canada’s establishment parties—Liberals, Conservatives, NDP—for excluding him from the 2021 debates despite his 1.6% vote share, accusing them of silencing pandemic dissent over vaccine mandates and travel restrictions. His legal fight against the unvaccinated no-fly list failed after courts dismissed it as moot, ignoring evidence. Bernier links this to broader institutional distrust fueled by media bias and political overreach while warning that mass, fraudulent immigration—like India’s foreign students and temporary workers—exacerbates housing shortages and inflation. He demands stricter enforcement for real refugees, not exploiters, and urges PPC voters to pressure Polyev’s Conservatives toward reform, despite the party’s limited electoral reach under first-past-the-post rules. Both agree: freedom and accountability remain critical battles. [Automatically generated summary]
You know, I'd like to check in with Maxime Bernier.
Although I believe that Pierre Polyev and the conservatives are the only likely pragmatic choice to defeat Trudeau, I have a soft spot for Bernier because he's a true believer.
But how does he fit in to a world where a lot of conservatives have decided to back Polyev?
I'm going to ask him that question.
What is his role?
How does he stay relevant?
We're also going to talk about some of his battles.
He's still fighting from the COVID times.
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Here's today's show.
Tonight, what's Maxime Bernier of the People's Party up to?
We'll find out with a feature interview, and he'll have a new argument about why people should support him.
It's September 2nd, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
The other day I was talking about the unanimity in our different political establishments amongst the court system, in the political system.
I remember the election debates in 2021 in the federal election, and you had five party leaders who were indistinguishable on the issues of the day.
You might remember that in 2021, COVID and the brutal lockdowns and mandates and soon a no-fly list for anyone unjabbed.
These were the hot issues of the day.
And yet the only political party leader that had a dissenting opinion was denied participation in the leaders' debates.
I'm talking about Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party.
It's important that our political system includes dissidents.
We know this.
For example, our legal system has pros and cons.
The prosecutor and the defendant, the plaintiff and the defendant, not just one side.
We know this from our political system.
The office of the leader of the opposition is specifically set aside for the country's biggest complainer.
He's called the loyal opposition, because although he's loyal to the country, he expresses it through his opposition to the policies of the day.
I think in the age of cancel culture, what we do to anyone who is a dissident, we try and silence them completely.
And so it's a pleasure to catch up, as we do from time to time, with Maxime Bernier, who joins us now for this special feature interview.
Mr. Bernier or Maxime, I mean, we've known each other for a long time.
Great to see you again.
Thanks for taking the time.
Thank you, Ezra.
I'm very pleased to be with you today.
You know, I was just thinking back to that election debate where you would expect the controversies of the day to be battled over back and forth.
But the only leader who actually dissented from the establishment narrative was you.
And you weren't allowed in.
You were kept out by the debates commission, the same people who tried to keep out rebel news.
Why was that?
Why do they not want you even to have a platform?
I mean, journalists love controversy, you would think, but why do they want to silence you rather than engage with you?
The Liberals and the Conservative, the NDP and all these establishment political parties didn't want another narrative.
Didn't want somebody that will challenge everything that they did during the COVID hysteria.
And actually, I was supposed to be there because I was be able to participate in the national debates at our first election as a new political party in 2019.
And for that election in 2021, the debate commission decided with the pressure of these establishment political parties to create a new rule for the People's Party of Canada.
They said, you know, Bernie will need 4% of the vote.
And we had the election before 1.6%.
So that was the reason why they didn't allow me to participate in these debates.
Appeal Denied: Liberties at Stake00:08:01
And actually, you're right.
The narrative about COVID was the same.
And everybody were saying, you know, that vaccine is safe and effective.
Everybody were okay with the huge deficit and the spending to tell our people, stay at home, but we will give you money that we don't have.
And after that, we all know that that created inflation.
So I was not part of this debate, yes.
But the good news, Ezra, is at the next general election in 2025, October 2025, we had 5% of the vote at the last election.
So I will be there.
I will be able to participate.
And I can tell you, I will answer the question, but I will ask a lot of questions.
Well, that's great.
I didn't know that.
Now I'm worried they're going to change the rules on you as they've done before.
Well, listen, we were talking about something that happened three years ago, the 2021 debate.
But the reason we're inviting you on the show today is that there was another institution that does not countenance dissent, and that's our justice system.
Just a few days ago, your court case where you were a plaintiff suing the federal government to challenge the constitutionality of the no-fly list for unjabbed people, it was thrown out.
You appealed, and you appealed all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, which just said, no, we're not interested in hearing the matter.
It is moot.
So even though you sued promptly in the middle of the no-fly zone, your lawyers moved quickly.
You put your arguments forward.
You brought your witnesses.
You cross-examined theirs.
When they dropped the no-fly list, the court said, oh, we don't have to talk about it anymore.
We can evade it.
I think that's inappropriate.
I think that our Supreme Court has evaded dealing with this civil liberties bonfire.
And I find it a very disappointing proof that not just our political system that we just talked about, but our legal system is shut out to anyone who dissents too.
What's your take on having the door slammed in your face this week by the Supreme Court?
It was a sad day for the democracy.
It was a sad day for our Constitution and our Charter of Rights.
But, you know, we started that early in 2022.
When I'm saying we, me and Brian Petford, the former Premier of Newfoundland, and he's the only live person that was part of that signatures for the Charter of Rights, he participated in the redaction of our Charter of Rights.
So I was very pleased and encouraged to sue the federal government with Brian.
So we did that early in 2022.
And we worked very hard with our lawyers because we had witnesses and we did what we must do.
And I believe that you must remember, Ezra at that time, we had a couple of witnesses that were saying, you know, all that travel ban mandate that they were telling Canadians, the federal government, you don't have the right to travel if you don't have the vaccine.
But we had proof that the doctor working with the federal government and with Transport Canada said that all that was not based on science.
And we had these witnesses in our case saying that.
But the problem is the federal government tried always to postpone and postpone and postpone that lawsuit.
And in the middle of that, the government decided to withdraw all the restrictions.
But actually, the sad things that happened at the first at the federal court, the judge didn't look at all the facts and the proof and the witnesses that we have.
The judge didn't take one minute to look at all our witness and our counter experts where they were saying.
The judge told us, you know, I didn't look at that because now, you know, these restrictions are not in force, so that's moot.
And that's it.
And we were very not happy with that decision.
We appealed that decision at the Federal Court of Appeal.
And the federal court of appeal said, no, everything is okay.
You know, the judge did the good thing, looking at saying that it was moot.
So they didn't want the federal court and the appeal court, federal appeal court, didn't want to look at the case based on facts.
And so we said, let's go to the Supreme Court.
And we just had that decision last week.
And it's the same thing.
So we have a Charter of Rights, but our court, and it's in a lot of cases, not only our case, but a lot of cases, the court decided not to look at what happened to us Canadians during that time by applying the Charter of Rights.
They find always excuses to not look at that and not look at our case or other cases and not give a decision based on our Charter of Rights.
They were saying, oh, it's mute or other fake arguments.
So that's very discouraging.
The court was not there to protect our civil liberties.
You're so right.
I spoke with one of the lawyers on the file the other day.
And, you know, it's just so disappointing that the court couldn't be bothered.
The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on these restrictions within months.
It was very quick.
And our Supreme Court has not yet actually heard a case emanating from the lockdowns.
And I think that that's disgraceful.
And I think that they have lost some of their reputation.
I was just making a little list.
Who lost their reputation during the civil liberties bonfire the last four years?
The media, definitely.
Politicians, the health authorities.
I don't think people trust health officers or pharmaceutical companies or even some doctors as much anymore.
And what you've described and what we've seen in other cases, I think the courts have burned up their credibility.
I think almost every single institution has less public trust today than it did in 2020.
What do you think of that?
You're absolutely right, Ezra.
And I have another example of that.
You know, I was a witness in a case, in another case, for a rally that I did in Manitoba.
And so we decided to appeal a decision because we receive the tickets.
And when I was a witness there, I was in that court.
And I can tell you, judges and all these judge, the judge that was there, and they are woke.
They are leftists.
Before speaking, before giving my testimony, they asked me, can you decline your name?
I said, yes.
My name is Maxine Bernier.
Can you spell your name?
I said, yes.
M-A-X-I-M-E-B-E-R-N-I-E-R.
Can you decline your pronouns?
I was so mad.
That's the reality.
I was so mad.
I said to the judge, look at me.
I'm a man and I won't decline any pronouns.
That's the court today all across the country.
They're woke, they're leftist, and they don't bother about our constitution.
That's crazy.
Oh, my God.
You know what?
I would have been tempted to say something a little bit more rude than you did, but good for you for staying in control.
You know, a lot of the reverberations will continue in society, but the court cases are coming to a close with the Supreme Court refusing to hear your case.
That's the end of that.
Why Are We Ignoring Immigration Issues?00:14:59
There's a few more truckers that are finishing up.
Tamara Leach has, I think, one more day of hearings in her very long trial.
The Coots truckers have all been through their trial and now they're in their sentencing phase.
And Arthur Pavlovsky has his appeal in Calgary in about two weeks.
But each of those things feels like it's sort of coming to an end.
And I don't think that many of them are satisfactory ends, although I'm very hopeful for Tamara Leach.
But I think the country has moved on and there's other issues.
And I think the number one issue in Canada now, well, if you ask people, I think they would probably say cost of living, cost of rent, cost of food, inflation.
But if you just push one ounce harder and say why, I think a lot of people will say immigration, mass immigration, unvetted immigration, unqualified immigration, in some ways culturally inappropriate immigration, in many cases fraudulent immigration.
I think people are stunned when they learn we have a million foreign students here and most of them are just in fake degrees.
Three quarters of a million foreign workers.
You were on the immigration issue when it was very dangerous to say so.
People would call you racist even for talking about it.
What's changed?
Why is it now slowly becoming respectable for people to say the things that you've been saying for five years, ten years?
You're right, Ezra.
When we created the People's Party in Canada in 2018, in our first election in 2019, immigration was part of our platform.
And I was saying, you know, we want to lower the number of immigrants that are coming to Canada, fewer immigrants.
And we were used to have that discussion in Quebec because, as you know, Quebec wants to keep their culture.
And, you know, in every provincial election in Quebec, you have that discussion.
Your party will say, you know, maximum of 50,000, another one, 20,000.
But nobody will say, oh, you're racist because of that.
No, it's a question of a discussion about the level of immigration that you want.
So the debate, it's important all across the country.
And we started that debate.
And that was very, very difficult because, yes, some people were saying that we were racist because we were raising that subject.
And at that time, it was a taboo subject.
But when we created the PPC, I said there's no taboo subject for us.
And, you know, I'm saying no to the political correctness.
I'm speaking about the facts and the truth and about the vision that we have for this country.
And immigration was important at that time.
It is even more important today to have a discussion about that.
But I'm pleased to say, to be able to see the shift of the public opinion.
And you have in the newspaper, in the mainstream media, maybe every week something about immigration, what is happening in our country.
But they won't speak about the People's Party.
They won't say that we were the first political party to fight and still the only one to fight to have a moratorium on immigration.
But I believe that because what is happening in Europe, what is happening also in the UK, and everything that you did, Ezra, with you know, you were there and you are bringing that to Canadians.
In the UK, it's like Canada, but there may be a little bit more in advance.
They have multiculturalism and they have open borders policy.
We have the same thing here.
And people understand now what is happening.
You know, all cultures are not equal.
And when you have people coming from the third world, you are bringing that culture and Canada will become a third world country.
You know, we need to stop that.
We need to have a discussion about that.
And we will speak about that again at the next general election.
But because of and also the housing crisis that is there, people realize right now that the real solution to solve the housing crisis is to have a moratorium on immigration.
We cannot build all the houses that we need just to be able to answer the demand coming from immigration.
You know, that was Polyev who said, Ezra, we built about 240,000 homes last year, but we need to build 700,000 houses every year just to meet the demand.
We won't be able to do that.
That's not the solution.
That's not the real and immediate solution.
The real solution that is under the jurisdiction of the federal government is to have a moratorium on immigration.
And more people understand because that's having an impact on the, you know, people are not able to buy a house first.
And also renting an apartment in the big cities in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver is very expensive.
Our standard of living is going down.
We have more people that are coming to the country.
But, you know, the liberals are saying, oh, it's good for the economy.
It's always the argument.
It's good for the economy.
Yes, the GDP is growing, ESRA, but we have more people.
And so what is happening?
The pie is bigger, but our piece of the pie is smarter.
The GDP per capita is smarter.
We are poor as individuals because of mass immigration.
And more people understand that now.
Yeah.
It's interesting.
You mentioned the province of Quebec.
A few days ago, the Premier of Quebec, Francois Legaud, said that if the temporary foreign workers left, there would be 300,000 fewer foreign people, and that would immediately relieve pressure on housing.
So 3,000 immigrants temporarily.
So we see a real explosion of non-migrants by two immigrants, simple impression and public service, that it is all public services.
It's a huge pressure on the parking lot.
If you have a little calculation, 300 000 people in two years, it's more than 100 000 parking lots.
We're not able to build 100 000 parking lots.
If tomorrow morning these 300 000 parking lots weren't there, there wouldn't be a crisis of parking lots.
I repeat it, and I know that it's a shock when I say that, but it's factual.
I think he's right mathematically.
To give him credit, Quebec leaders have always been a little tougher on immigration than other leaders.
I think he's normalizing an idea that until about five minutes ago was not just taboo, you would be called racist, which is deporting people.
I mean, it's one thing for people to come over here, but when their visa expires or when they're found to be a criminal or when they're found to be a bogus refugee, the idea of actually getting people to go home is still so controversial.
I've really never heard anyone in Canada talk about it.
But if we have a million foreign students and 750,000 temporary foreign workers, they're going to have to go home.
And I guess you could call that deporting or inviting people to self-support or paying them to get out.
But I don't know if the Canadian political class has the stomach to do what has to be done.
I don't think so.
I said it, and it's part of our platform.
We need to deport the illegals.
And actually, when you have a student visa, usually, you know, after your study, when you have your diploma, you go back to your home, and there's no, you know, it's normal to do that.
You came in Canada to be able to study, and after that, you go back to your country.
But all with these fake students coming from India, sorry, but that's the reality.
More of them, the majority of them are coming from India.
And, you know, that's a kind of a fraud because we tell them, you know, come in under the student international visa, and after that, you'll be able to apply for a permanent residency.
But that's not the case.
After your study, you have to go back.
And I said it, we will need to deport them.
But now Trudeau and Polyev are looking to give them a permanent residency.
You know, when you cheat and when you don't respect our legislation, why the government will give them a gift by giving them a permanent residency?
No, you cheated.
You suppose your permit has expired.
You have to go on.
If you don't go on, we will need to deport you.
And that's the basic logic.
If you want to respect ourselves as a country, we must speak about it and do it.
But they're too afraid.
Polyev and Trudeau, they're too afraid to speak about that.
They don't want their pandering to these ethnic communities.
They want vote.
They want to have more support.
They want to win the election.
But when they're doing that, they're not working for all Canadians.
You know, there's a lot of different categories of immigrant students.
I can't believe there's a million of them.
That's more than the number of Canadian university students.
But they're not real universities.
They're not at McGill or UBC.
Some of them are.
But most of them are sort of fake, you know, acumen college.
Like their diploma mills is what they're sometimes called.
The foreign workers are subsidizing McDonald's and Tim Hortons, which are billion-dollar companies.
Why are we subsidizing them and making it hard for young Canadians to find jobs?
But there is a category called refugee.
And these are people who don't claim to be students.
They don't claim to be workers.
They're just saying, life is really bad for me.
I'm in danger back home.
So let me in for free.
But I just saw the other day the ranking of countries for asylum, like refugee claims.
Number one is India.
Number two is Bangladesh.
Number three is Nigeria.
And number four is Mexico.
India is the world's largest democracy.
I mean, I wouldn't want to live there myself necessarily, but it's not particularly dangerous.
I don't know much about Bangladesh.
Mexico is a vacation spot.
I mean, again, they've got some drug cartels, but I don't know why we're even pretending that these are refugees.
And none of them can come directly to Canada, by the way.
They always came through a second place first.
I don't know.
I just, I feel like that's the worst because everyone knows they're tricksters.
Everyone knows they're bogus.
Everyone knows they're taking advantage of us.
I think that really drives people to hate refugees because people see they're fake.
What do you think?
Yeah.
But actually, you know, we have two new Raksam roads in Canada: the Montreal Airport and the Toronto Pearson International Airport.
So what is happening?
Trudeau, two years ago, decided to change the rules for a person living in India or another country to be able to come to Canada as a tourist, as a visitor.
Usually, you had to prove to the embassy over there that you have enough money to pay for your tickets.
You have enough money to spend in Canada during your time that you'll be there as a tourist, and you have enough money to go back.
That was a very important criteria.
And after that, the MBC over there will give you a permit just to come to visit Canada.
And after that, you go back to your country.
But they changed that.
They don't ask that anymore.
So what is happening?
They apply as tourists and they don't ask them if they have enough money to stay in Canada.
That's not part of the questionnaire anymore.
So they're coming in Montreal Airport and Toronto Pearson.
And when they're there, they said, oh, I'm not a tourist anymore.
I'm a refugee.
So that's why, you know, we have a new Roxanne Road, Montreal Airport and Toronto Airport.
And that's because of Trudeau.
They changed the regulations.
They're not refugees.
You're absolutely right, Ezra.
You know, I was over in Ireland, and there's different kinds of refugees there.
I mean, believe it or not, there's Ukrainian families.
Ireland has about 5 million people in it.
They accepted 100,000 Ukrainians, which is a huge number.
That would be almost like a million in Canada.
But I couldn't find any Irish people who said they were really opposed to them.
I'm just saying what I heard.
And they said that they generally fit in.
They're generally law-abiding.
But I think more than that, people realize they really are coming from a war zone.
Now, you might say, why aren't the men back there fighting?
But people would say, yeah, you're from a war zone.
Yeah, there's women and children here too.
And you're sort of fitting in.
Like I was in one small community where the Ukrainian kids were going to school with the Irish kids and it seemed to work.
But what the Irish, who were fine with Ukrainians, and I don't think it was a race thing, although there was a bit of an English, sort of a language and cultural fit, a little bit more.
What drove them crazy was when single military-aged men from Somalia, from Afghanistan, from one guy told me he was from Palestine, from Pakistan.
Single guys saying, I'm a refugee, and there's like a hundred of these men coming over together.
And they're coming into Ireland from Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, if you recall.
So everyone knows they're not coming directly from a war zone.
Everyone knows that they ripped up their ID, and everyone feels taken advantage of in a way that they didn't with Ukrainians.
Not everyone loves the fact there's 100,000 Ukrainians in Ireland, but at least they say, okay, their families from a war zone.
Every single person I met in Ireland said that the reason they oppose the refugees is because they all know it's all a lie and people are going along with the lie.
Why are we going along with the lie here in Canada?
We must not.
And we must help the real refugees.
And I'm thinking about, you know, the Christian in Muslim country.
Keep Conservatives Honest00:07:45
You know, we must do that.
But now all these people are not refugees and we cannot save the world.
And we, you know, these politicians who are permitting that and they're not working for Canadians.
It's morally, it's not moral to do that.
If you're a politician, your main job is to work for your people.
Now they try to save the world and they want to give a better chance to these fake refugees when we are in the beginning of an economic crisis.
Inflation is at the roof and our standard of living is going down.
We must focus and put Canadians first and they're not doing that.
I want to ask you a political question because you and I have known each other even before you were an MP and you were in the Montreal Economic Institute, then you were with the Harper government.
Now you're the leader of the People's Party.
And I know you've had a libertarian, freedom-oriented point of view for decades.
I've also known Pierre Polyev for decades too.
In fact, we both sort of grew up in Calgary at the same time.
Believe it or not, when I ran for office very briefly, he was my communications director in my by-election campaign about 20 years ago.
It's a little anecdote for you.
And I know that he's said and believed conservative things for a long time.
I think both of you have.
Before Pierre Polyev was the leader of the Conservative Party, you had Andrew Scheer and Aaron O'Toole, both of whom had tremendous weaknesses, both ideologically and politically.
They were not winners, and they had no chance of winning.
And I think people were so appalled by how Aaron O'Toole rebuffed the truckers that I think you were there saying, look, I believe in freedom.
I've been in government, come to the People's Party, we're what the Conservatives should have been.
But over the last year, especially, Pierre Polyev seems to have consolidated the right of center vote.
He's at 40%, 43% in the polls.
He's starting very gently to talk about immigration.
He talks a pretty good game on CBC, I'll tell you.
And I think some people who before were for PPC are saying, you know what?
The PPC is better.
It's more purist.
It's more idealistic.
But Polyev has a real chance to win.
And because of our first past-the-post system, it's unlikely a PPC candidate could win.
For example, there's a couple of by-elections coming up very soon, one in Quebec, one in Manitoba.
What would you say?
Talk directly to our viewers.
Don't even talk to me now, Maxime.
A lot of our rebel news viewers have a deep affection for you.
They remember that you were the only one standing with them during the lockdowns, during the pandemic.
In fact, you were charged with a crime for it.
So our people have an affectionate love for you, but that's their heart.
But their head also says, well, Polyev can win.
Speak directly to our viewers and tell them your case.
It's all the argument about spitting the vote.
Oh, you know, Maxime, I like you.
I like your ideas.
I like your party.
You were with us.
But we need to get rid of Trudeau and you won't be prime minister tomorrow, so I cannot vote for you.
That's the argument.
And I must admit, Ezra, and people are telling me that in my face sometimes.
So, but the good news now, there's a good news, you just said it, Polyev will win.
Trudeau won't be able to win.
Look at the poll, and he may have one of the biggest majority in the history of this country.
You know, Trudeau won't be able, everything that he's doing, it's doing everything for Polyev, being able to beat him.
So, if you look at the polls and if you believe at the polls, you know, now you can vote for your value, now you can vote for what you believe, now you can vote for what you want.
If you vote for what you want, you have a better chance to have what you want.
So, Polyev will win, he will have a majority, but we need to be there.
The PPC needs to be there to keep Polyev honest, to keep him in the right direction.
And so, you know, you said it, Polyev is looking in the center, center-right, center-left sometimes, and he'll do compromise to be able to have the support of different ethnic communities.
But he's taking the vote coming from the West for granted.
And actually, we are not.
We are speaking about the real issue.
You need our voice in Ottawa.
I need your vote, but you need our support in Ottawa.
And voting for the PPC, it's a vote for you, it's a vote for the country.
And we will support Polyev when he'll be a conservative for sure, but we will shame him when he won't be.
So, look, people, you had Stephen Opera.
I was with him in 2006.
We had a minority government.
2008, a minority government.
2011, a majority national government.
So, I said to myself at that time, we'll be real conservative.
What is the legacy of Stephen Hopper after a majority?
Yet, he dismantled the wheat board.
That's it.
There's no legacy with Stephen Hopper.
He didn't change the equalization formula.
You know, he did the biggest deficit in the history of our country at that time.
Opera was a good manager of a big, fat, interventionist government.
So, if you want real reform, you need to put your vote for what you want.
And we will push Polyev in the right direction.
You know, it took seven times for Nigel in the UK to be able to be elected.
I'm not telling you that it will take for me seven times, but at the next election, that will be my third one, and we'll see.
But we need to move the public opinion on our side.
And the more people who speak about the PPC, the more people will be able to convince.
And Polyev is a follower, is following the public opinion.
And if we have a strong support from 5 to 10 percent, Polyev will look at that support as a government, and he will have to act a little bit.
So that's why people need to vote in line with their values if they want to have bold changes in this country.
Very interesting.
I think that's the first time I've heard you make this particular case to keep Polyev's conservatives honest.
That's very interesting, and I'm very glad I asked you that question.
It's a kind of an insurance policy for the conservative voters that they will have a better conservative government.
In a way, that's the mission of Rebel News.
When there was a Conservative Premier in Alberta, Jason Kenning, Conservative Premier in Ontario, we criticized in good faith from the right.
In fact, we were quite critical of Jason Kenning.
So that's an interesting.
I mean, of course, we're not competitive with politicians, but what is our role when there's a powerful conservative to hold them honest?
Maximum, it's great to catch up with you.
Thanks for taking the time.
I'm sorry the Supreme Court denied you your day in court.
I think that's atrocious, but it sounds like you have no plans to stop fighting for freedom.
So I appreciate you sharing with us your messages today.
Great to see you.
Thank you, Ezra.
Have a nice day.
I sure will.
There you have it, Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People's Party of Canada.