Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Maxime Bernier

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian businessman Maxime Bernier.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Maxime Bernier is a Canadian politician who is the founder and leader of the People's Party of Canada (PPC). Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, Bernier left the caucus in 2018 to form the PPC. He was the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauce from 2006 to 2019 and served as a Cabinet minister in the Harper government.

Canadian - Businessman | Born: January 18, 1963

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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.

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I don't care a bit about people's race or skin colour.

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You can save a lot of money when you have responsible and bold policies that are in line with our principles, and we are telling the truth to Canadians.

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I'm very different from other politicians.

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We want the private sector to be able to invest. The private sector works quite well.

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Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.

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Prosperity has nothing to do with the quantity of money that we have in our pockets, but rather with the quantity of goods that we can buy.

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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.

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They call me the Albertan of Quebec. It stuck.

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I aim to create a federal government which respects the constitution, which respects taxpayers.

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I think it's motivating and exalting when we defend ideas that are at the foundation of western civilization.

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You cannot build public policies on sentiment, on panic and fear.

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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.

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Our immigration policy should not aim to forcibly change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada, as radical proponents of multiculturalism want.

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I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.

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Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.

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Taxing corporations means unnecessarily burdening our wealth-creating machines.

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When we tolerate violations to the Constitution, the entire moral foundation of our political system is shaken to its core.

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I believe in climate change.

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I hope that more Canadians will become interested in in how the inflation rate target affects our purchasing power, our standard of living and therefore our life.

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To stimulate the economy, we need to give entrepreneurs the means to create wealth.

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A small group of motivated citizens can potentially have as much influence as a lobby group spending millions of dollars.

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Do we want to emphasize our ethnic and religious differences, and exploit them to buy votes, as the Liberals are doing? Or emphasize what unites us and the values that can guarantee social cohesion?

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You have to stick to your principles and when you believe in something, to fight for it.

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Brian Mulroney came to power in 1984 and privatized Petro-Canada, brought in the GST and signed the free trade agreement with the U.S. He was a great prime minister and made bold conservative changes. That's all I want to do.

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Monetary policy is one of the most difficult topics in economics. But also, I believe, a topic of absolutely crucial importance for our prosperity.

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When government borrowing and spending go up, private borrowing and spending go down.

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We are doing politics differently - smart, populist, political movement.

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We are speaking to the intelligence of Canadians, not to their emotion.

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You can shut down our economy and the effect on climate change, it will be nothing.

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You must believe in people. You must give back their money in their own pockets.

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I have said many times that racist and bigots are not welcome in our party... The journalists who don't want to recognize this and keep coming back with questions of bigotry can just take a hike.

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We Conservatives believe not in big, interventionist, centralized government. But in small and limited government, government as close to the people as possible.

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What I'm looking for is doing politics like I believe.

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I think here in Beauce, people are very honest. And they don't like a politician that will say something one day and the opposite the other day.

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We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.

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I'm the only one who is saying, 'Let's take fewer immigrants.' We want people to integrate, we don't want ghettos in Canada.

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I want to live in a society where everyone is treated equally and not defined by their race.

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For me, I don't have to defend myself that I am not a racist. I won't go in that discussion.

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Some taxes are really dumb.

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I'm a kind of an entrepreneur.

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The free market, the people, will find solutions and they always did in the past.

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I have people on Twitter that they know better my own platform than myself.

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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.

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In reality, every time the government takes an additional dollar in taxes out of someone's pocket, it's a dollar that person will not be able to spend or invest. When government spending goes up, private spending goes down. There is no net effect. No wealth creation.

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The U.N. is a dysfunctional organization.

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People like authenticity and I think I have the courage of my convictions and am authentic.

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A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

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We're not radical when we are speaking about fewer immigrants.

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We want First Nations and these people to be like Canadians on a lot of points of view. Right now, that's not normal that they cannot have running water on reserve. We need to fix that, but it must not be imposed by Ottawa, a top-down bureaucratic decision.

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I don't want our country to be like other countries in Europe in having a challenge to integrate their new immigrants.

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A tax on capital is self-defeating, in that it slows down capital accumulation, investment and economic growth.

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I may be a dreamer, but I think monetary economics should be a hot topic.

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People are fed up of politicians who say one thing one day and another the day after.

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A person that wants to come to our country must share our Canadian values.

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Nationalism can be a destructive force when it promotes intolerance and division. But it can also be a force for good, when it seeks to defend local autonomy against the homogenizing forces of larger entities.

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Diversity, it is good. This country has been built by diversity. But diversity in sharing of values? For me, it's not good.

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Justin Trudeau is always saying diversity's our strength. It is not our strength.

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We cannot be the welfare state of the planet.

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You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

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