26 Replies to “Maxime Bernier”

  2. i like maxime , he is further right than harper and is not afraid to show it …that is not to say that i dislike harper i stil feel he is stuck with a minority and thta he cannot govorne the way he would like but i wish he would not pander .
    Any way to have maxime in parlement would be good for this country perhap’s jim flahrities spot would suit him nicley .
    GOOd luck maxime. 😉

  3. Kate, maxime’s has had a blog for quite some time now. At first glance the blog looks little different than it did before. Ammo missing something?

  5. So what is Mr. Bernier promoting? Conservatism.
    Have we had anyone promote it before. Say like Preston Manning and the Reform Party, like the early Ralph Klein, like early Stephen Harper.
    How did the media react to all of the above? Did the media treat them with any respect, or promote their ideas, or give credit when those ideas were coopted by the left?
    Not to my recollection.
    Yet here we have a guy who is promoting a very conservative message, who by all rights based on his past actions should be treated as a joke by the media for the remainder of his political career (if their treatment of other conservatives who found themselves mired in a “scandal” is used as a benchmark), and I have not read a single negative thing about him in the MSM.
    All the big guns are treating Mr. Bernier with absolute deference.
    I love the fact that a conservative is being given respect in the media, but does anyone wonder why its happening when it has not happened before?
    Is his message any different than Quebecs other conservative poster child Mario Dumont? but Dumont got the Reform Treatment by the media and Bernier is getting the Full Stronach.
    My guess is Mr. Berniers resurected political career and loving media support is in direct proportion of how deeply he has climbed into the pocket of Canadas political power elite.
    The same elite has realized they will not be able to knock Harper of his perch with via a hand selected Liberal leader, nor can they bury the Conservative governement with a coalition.
    Last option is to replace him from within, and doing so with a centrist wont work because Harper has staked out that ground.
    So a new conservative boy wonder it will be (but from Quebec of course, none of these Westerners really know what is good for the country.

  7. Ward, I agree Mr. Bernier is a political thought lightweight, with more glitz than gas. His website is slick, but vacuous, IMO (and laughably introspective).
    Having said that, he has tapped into an historic political paradox in Quebec – a statist political culture somehow wedded with a strong entepreneurial spirit. Quebecers look inward on political and social matters, but outward on economic.
    While this attempted movement won’t likely overtake the entrenched pequiste attitudes in Quebec, it could cause erosion.
    This will benefit the right of centre candidates in Quebec for two reasons. First, disparate movements such as the ADQ (witness Dumont’s recent rising) can cobble ideas together to complement an alternative to status quo statism.
    Secondly, and more importantly, this small vein of political thought, and populist sentiment that follows, may provide the desperately need political organization for Conservative candidates in Quebec, surely the federalist home of this idea.
    Organization is the dirty little secret of Harper’s setback in Quebec during the last federal election. There was no provincial party institutional response to attacks such as the ridiculous arts funding “cuts” affair. The media contacts, the editorial voices, the rebuttal, was non-existent.
    How do you get the vote out effectively without boots on the ground?
    Harper, for his part, probably cannot believe his good fortune. If Bernier falls flat on his face, the CPC can withdraw gracefully. If he succeeds, his penance may be declared paid, and all will be forgiven.
    That’s why he not saying much about Bernier’s escapades.

  8. eljay
    […….The media won’t touch him because he’s French……..]
    Most likely and they overestimate the impact of his gafe with the wrong girlfriend, thinking that if they give him some rope they can hang him later.
    Quebec politicos much like French and Italian politicos get pretty much a pass for “romantic” pecadilos….in fact it may increase their statis…..it’s a cultural thing.
    English Canada much like the US reverts to puritanical values…see Slick Willy’s persistant “little blue dress” albatross.
    The McKay/Stronach matter resulted in rejection for Stronach and sympathy for Mckay….which is my position.
    Bernier’s escapades may him more popular with Francophones and he makes the right noises for the ROC.
    The CPC likely can’t believe their luck….Bernier “goes rogue” and it works.

  10. BTW…for the rest of you not in Ontario, Steve Paikin is a real journalist and has a well respected format. We should link to him more often. The word balance comes to mind.

  15. Interesting.
    Frankly, I’m surprised to hear this from anyone in Quebec. Lightweight, perhaps, but still.
    Why is it that left-wing activists find the time to attempt shutting down conservative speakers but have little time for anything else?
    “Last Wednesday, I visited Laval University at the invitation of the local Conservative Students Association.The media don’t usually cover this type of events. But this time, a group of young left-wing activists had alerted journalists that many of them would attend and protest against my speech.”

  16. People like Susan are getting ‘tingles’ up her leg, Mad Max IS electrifying; he has magnetic charm because he is ‘dangerous’, in a good way; unlike Turdo who was ‘boylike’ and never ‘dangerous’. Women like ‘dangerous’ men and men like them too. I think that the msm in Canada are so boring themselves that they cannot ‘imagine’ people who are outspoken and have ideas about freedom and independence and these ideas are not ‘governed’. Much of the population in Quebec is not French, many, if not most, of the people in Quebec are Irish and Scottish. Mr. Blackburn (Veterans Affairs) has the same name as my Great grandmother; she was Scottish, her ancestors came from Paisley, Scotland. The French population in Quebec is either recent or very far removed from France of today since their ancestors were subjects of the Kings of France!!
    The Irish and Scots who immigrated to Quebec were forced out of Scotland and Ireland by the British overlords. The Irish people changed their names so that they could keep their religion (Roman Catholic) and spit in the eye of the British government (Quebec was guaranteed the right to language and religion when the British took over Canada – the British defeated Napoleon in 1815 and they were more worried about other colonies so they paid off the Quebec people to keep their armies elsewhere).
    The people who now live in Quebec have had their run at the perceived Brits in Canada. It is time to get over the injustices of the past and be part of Canada – or leave. Canada is not British property anymore; we are Canadian (not British and certainly not French).
    I am a fan of what Max has to say as I am always on the side of personal independence. I hate all gument intrusion into the lives of gument’s patrons (taxpayers). Canadian citizens need to grow up and be responsible for themselves and their own families and citizens have the right to tell elected servants what to do and to fire those servants if they challenge us! Mad Max is on the same page as many Canadians inside and outside Quebec because he taps into anti gument sentiments formed in the long ago past against oppressors. Three Cheers for Max – and for PMSH – they share that aversion for oppression. Citizens of Canada can choose the state slave route, if they wish, by voting for the troika (Icky, Jacko and Decreep). It is up to Freedom loving people to stop the slavish voting individuals from stealing our freedom when they give up their own. Mad Max hits all the right notes, IMO.

  17. well if you like max “beauceron” bernier and many many people here in quebec do – you’re going to love johanne marcotte.
    it has taken 40 years to put the left back on their heels here in quebec – it’s all over now except the shouting.
    you’re going to like eric duhaime also 🙂
    the political movement (not party) is affectionately known as reseau liberte quebec (rlq). it translates into english roughly as “quebec freedom network” and one of its founding planks is that independance aka sovereignty or separation is a dead horse. good news from where i sit.

  18. johnnyonline, I hope that I am going to explain myself adequately. Many of us here, including me, and lately in the National Post in comments to articles many have slagged Quebec or rather some Quebec politicians for continually being at the trough while at the same time biting the hands that are feeding them.
    Duceppe, a former communist, is a treasonous scoundrel filling his pockets and Charest doesn’t know if he is liberal or conservative or just plain progressive.
    I hope what you are talking about gets legs and these people you mention are real and not lefty money suckers in disguise.

  19. Agreed, Ken (Kulak). Quebec is not the issue – Canada is; we have seen too much ‘strategic ‘ voting from Quebec (getting close to the piggy bank by voting for the party in power) to trust them any further than the frount door.
    I view Mad Max’s ideas as Canadian ideas, just as I view Wildrose ideas as Canadian, not Alberta, ideas. Geography does not always reflect individual beliefs.

  20. Da rpoof is da proof ‘nd when it’s … H/T U-Know*.
    BTW, has Chretien died yet?
    …-
    “Liberals rage after Charest called ‘godfather’
    Montreal Gazette – Philip Authier, Kevin Dougherty – ‎1 hour ago‎
    GRANBY – Furious Liberals are demanding the leader of the Action démocratique du Québec retract his statement comparing Premier Jean Charest to “the godfather” or resign.
    Charest ‘godfather’ of the Quebec Grits? Toronto Sun
    Liberal dissident loses in bid for a construction inquiry Montreal Gazette”
    http://news.google.ca/
    *Jeancula Crappo da crappo Liberal Chretien:
    http://media.canada.com/5b6e4c44-1c52-4892-9c05-6cb84120e9ce/chretien081808.jpg

  21. Yeah well, there is no way this dude will get my vote, unless I should somehow end up in his riding, which is highly unlikely. He hasn’t got what it takes to be a mayor let alone the Prime Minister of this country. He’s basically another Keith Martin, a flash in the pan; no conviction. He may have staying power, but not in politics. wink, wink.

  22. just another dispatch from quebec
    i’m not the least bit sure (not a gambler) that recent assemblies will have any earthquaking results… but i remain entirely optimistic that perseverance coupled with critical thought will win the day.
    i mean that: you have to be really ignorant or stupid to be incapable of understanding that something that has been attempted over an incredibly long time without yielding any discernable advantage has anything within it worthwhile being persued. i have tremendous faith in the people of quebec who have seen their fair share of bullshit in the last 400 years.
    this is a cusp situation. and from where i sit it does not look good for the socialist/communist/utopian/unicorn lefties.
    for the greater part of my life i have been subjected to elected individuals pronouncing the advantages of the “collectivity”. i cannot tell you how pleased i am to hear ideas expressed in public that are contrary to the received wisdoms.
    cut the goofy federal tranfers now! let the provinces figure it out by themselves.

  23. So what would all fo you say if mad max called for the cancellation of transfer payment’s ?
    Becasue i beleive he did . can’t rememebr where but i think i read an article about him speaking to that effect ….but then again i could be dreaming ..lol.

  24. Mad Max is a reflection of the present times…The world is at a crossroad; morally, culturally and more so economically.
    Mad Max might be the new Glenn Beck of sorts for Quebec…Or the Newt Gingrich like someone above mentioned.
    Rob Ford, The Tea Party, Reseau Liberte Quebec…All grassroots.
    Grassroots rising = Revolution brewing.
    Maxime Bernier is the most recent best thing to happen in Quebec (The nation’s equivalent to California) for the future of Canada…Let’s hope it continues.

  25. ward, you have it right IMO. The left relize what they have with Iggy and see no other strategy other than to try and split the right from within. It worked so well with Reform and the PCs.
    I remember that Mulroney said all the right things when he was on the stump as well. I have zeero faith that any easterner will rule the country and give the west a fair shake in the process. There is a fundamental economic struggle between east and west in this country. Easterners have been raised expecting the socialist redistribution of wealth to their benefit for decades. Ontario has always been the net net beneficiary as the power which controlled the purse strings. The only three constituencies making their way in the world are BC, AB and Sask you tell me how this will end? Even as I credit these three you have to despair at the lack of political foresight which allows them to continue supporting equalization and multi-culturalism. These policies will ultimately destroy us.

  26. Bernier is the only part of the CPC worth the time of day. He has the communication skills and principles the PM could never hope to have; that’s why he’s intimidated enough to let Bernier be. It’s interesting that the only people as afraid and disparaging of him as the lefties are the PMO palace guards here. They’re reason for not liking him-He’s an Eesternr!!111-are almost self-parody.

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation