Posted on 06/11/2021 5:54:40 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell
Max Bernier, leader of the Peoples' Party of Canada, which is similar in policy to the Trump movement, was arrested today in Manitoba at a political rally outside Winnipeg.
He had been warned by police acting under the province of Manitoba's health emergency laws that he could face arrest if he continued his political tour of the province.
Stating that it was a constitutional right for him and his supporters to hold political rallies, he continued with his tour and the police made good on their threat, transporting Bernier to a jail where he is in touch with his legal team but otherwise incommunicado.
Canadian leftists and supporters of the RINO-like Conservative Party of Canada have taken to twitter and other social media to make fun of Bernier, who is the only Canadian federal politician actively speaking out against lockdowns and excessive travel restrictions.
In some cases, we'll have to see how they react if an election is called (as widely expected) and their parties are treated the same way. Perhaps they can get together in the maple gulag and yuck it up together.
"First they came for the libertarians ...|"
No word yet from the PM, whose father (allegedly) once used a political crisis in Quebec as a pretext to declare martial law and arrest all sorts of his political adversaries. However, in this case, the political dynamic at play is more to do with Bernier's threat to divide the Conservative vote -- the premier of Manitoba, Brian Pallister, who likely signed off on this arrest, is a Tory and a supporter of the corrupt and anemic Conservative Party, a place where Mitt Romney and his ilk would feel right at home. That party has basically told the voters, "we are basically the same as the Liberals, but will tax you a little bit less."
Bernier is a libertarian conservative who wants to see reduced immigration, enhanced personal freedom, smaller government, and lower taxes. He is opposed to the suicidal green agenda and pandering to political agitators posing as anti-racists in order to create a pretext for socialist revolution.
I don’t trust him. He cost the PC’s about 5 or 6 seats.
I find that there is an axiom in politics. The more pure the candidate, the more likely he is playing a spoiler role and knows it.
https://twitter.com/maximebernier?lang=en
There’s a video at about the 4 minute mark where the RCMP officer asks Bernier “Do you have any weapons?”
“Only my words” says Bernier.....
The fools just made a hero out of Max Bernier. I expect him to have a very bright future in Canadian politics.
There is huge anger over the totalitarian lockdowns as evidence mounts that it was a scam. The people who nobody in the establishment pays attention to, the people who work and mind their own business are pissed and they will express it more and more S time goes on.
Here in American November 2022 and it will be a tsunami wave of vengeance voting.
He’s been around politics for all his life.
He’s just going to help keep the Liberals in power by always splitting the conservative vote. He knows his role.
This is a Hitler-like strategy being used to help the liberals.
He’s just going to help keep the Liberals in power by always splitting the conservative vote. He knows his role.
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Well.... he had a run at the leadership of the party and fell short. That’s true. However, is there anyone who thinks that Scheer wasn’t a disaster? Or that O’Toole isn’t also turning out to be a disaster?
There is no viable Conservative party in Canada.
May God bless him for attempting to create one.
There is no body who could have been Trump-like in Canada. The Canadian establishment and Toronto are too liberal. Trump’s clone, who was born in Canada, could not do what Trump did in the States.
There is nobody, if you’re looking for a Trump-like success. Scheer was not a disaster, per se, as he was pretty conservative, but the media successfully savaged him. No conservative can win in Canada. We need a depression to the point where we starve to death before Canadians will really consider a conservative option.
If you want conservatives to win in Canada, you need a depression. People need to pay with their lives in order for conservatives to win.
No. He’s not attempt to create anything. His role, as paid by the liberals, is to act as a perpetual distraction and parasite of conservative votes.
He’s there to destroy the conservative vote, not create it.
There is no viable Conservative party in America. Free Canadians and free Americans need to decide what we want the future to be. The election process is rapidly turning into a unworkable option.
So he is a "McMullen/McMuffin Romneybot candidate? Too bad. At least he is making the leftist expose their inner totalitarians .
That’s exactly what it is.
I wish people could see him for what he really is, but their ego’s are stroked and their concerns affirmed, so they follow him.
Hopefully he will cost them all their seats, they are just enabling Trudeau and the leftist agenda, and provide no real opposition. We would be far better off to have Max Bernier and a handful of MPs than 80 to 100 sheep who go along to get along.
So, you want Max Bernier to be the official opposition, so Trueshit’s legislation can have nearly 306 votes for approval
I’m not sure what that would do.
Like it or not, the Conservatives is about as conservative as a party can be and be viable in Canada.
If the Liberals were really behind Max and his breakaway party, he would have gotten help from them in his riding but prominent Liberal Warren Kinsella spread the big lie about him being a neo-Nazi which hurt his chances (the Conservative won by a relatively small margin).
I don’t believe Max is any sort of secret agent for the Liberals. He has always been a libertarian, and wanted to provide a real conservative option, was defeated by a very narrow margin for the leadership in what many thought was a fixed final round, and then went off to start an alternative.
Even if let’s say he was a plant, we need a party like this and if he ever happened to be exposed as such then another leader could take over, but personally I trust him and think he is the only good alternative, other than separation of western Canada which would just drag along all our own homegrown Marxists of whom there is no shortage in any province nowadays.
I can’t understand a position where one distrusts Max Bernier but trusts Erin O’Toole or his predecessor, Andrew Scheer, who make no secret of their centrist accomodationist views. What are you trusting them to do, build three less windmills and outlaw your car in 2029 instead of 2028?
As for Max not being a Trump, well everything is relative, we don’t have a large political base already waiting for a Trump like leader to come along, our version will have to create that base out of disaffected centrists, as the actual base of principled conservative support is probably more like 5% than the 50% Trump has to work with.
So the opportunity in some ways defines the leader, a Donald Trump clone would not work in Canadian politics at this point in time, Max Bernier has taken a more reasoned approach but with almost zero accurate media coverage this is next to an impossible task. It can succeed if a critical mass of Conservative voters who are tired of being taken in by promises never kept break ranks, and join the 2-3% who already did that and came over to the PPC in recent years. This is how Reform defeated the Joe Clark Conservatives in the 1990s.
I am not one to minimize the challenges involved, but if we don’t even try, then what can we expect other than slavery?
Actually, the more “pure” a candidate appears, the more likely his secret leftist tendencies get exposed down the road.
I don’t see any evidence of secret leftist tendencies with Max Bernier and how does Donald Trump fit into that particular theory?
A more logical analysis is simply (and depressingly) that Max doesn’t appeal to many Canadians because we are largely a socialist nation and a libertarian conservative is odd man out, I should know, I’ve been odd man out here for most of my life. The only successful conservative politicians have been those who concentrated on some practical aspects and who then governed like a toned down version of the leftist alternatives, but this is never good enough for the Canadian media who routinely compare such persons to Adolf Hitler (with absolutely no cause, they just can’t help themselves) and always, inevitably, the “natural governing party” returns from its exile and quickens the pace of the march to oblivion.
I agree largely with another recent poster here in this thread who linked to his blog about Chinese plans for Canada and I think in a sane world our citizens and your intelligence departments would be equally concerned about it; in this world, nobody seems to care one way or another, if we’re going to go down the woke socialist path we might as well have expert supervision I suppose.
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