Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Maxime Bernier - Page 2

We believe in immigration, but we don't believe in mass immigration.

If you believe in free markets, I don't want to make any compromise with my principles and I think that's the right policy for Canadians and for Canadian consumers.

The People's Party, I am working for the people and we want to put the power back in people.

If you're choosing somebody that doesn't have the competence, but because it's a young guy, or it's a lady or if it's a man, it's a positive discrimination and I won't push that.

Policy should not aim to change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada.

I am saying to Canadians, there is no climate emergency in this country.

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.

Everyone who knows me, they know that I am not a socialist.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

We need new technology to fight climate change and that will come from the private sector.

I like free markets, I like competition.

The politicians, they try to please everybody and when you want to please everybody, you won't please everybody. That's not my way of doing politics.

I am in politics to defend ideas, real conservative ideas. Because I passionately care about Canada's future. Because I know that the free-market conservative philosophy has the best solutions to ensure our society is more prosperous, secure, and peaceful.

Actually, I'm the only politician in Ottawa who is against the Paris Accord.

I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.

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.

While the other parties look at polls and focus groups to decide what they stand for, and pander to every special interest group, we follow our principles.

Some may remember that, in 2010, I publicly broke ranks with my colleagues from the Quebec City area who were pushing our government to subsidize a new sports amphitheater in the city. They had seized on this popular project to... What else? Buy votes.

The Conservative Party tries to avoid important but controversial issues of concern to Conservatives and Canadians in general. It is afraid to articulate any coherent philosophy to support its positions.

We must give less money to these provinces, like my own province of Quebec, and give them the right incentive to develop their own natural resources and their economy.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

I think it is not important to have the free trade agreement with China.

Canadians are a compassionate people and we should be. But at what cost?

Integrating is easier when you have a job in Canada.

If we want conservative principles to win the battle of ideas, we have to defend them openly, with passion and conviction.

I agree that we need to have real temporary foreign workers, who are working in the fields, picking fruits.

It's federal jurisdiction, so the federal government can approve pipelines.

When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices.

You know, I'm a free market politician and I think I'm the only one who worked for think-tanks like the Montreal Economic Institute.

What is best for the Beauce is what is best for Canada.

I want to get rid of corporate welfare.

I am not a communist.

I want a smaller government, yes, but I want a government that will be fair.

I know many Canadians are fed up with the traditional way of doing politics.

A Conservative party that supports free markets should also advocate the end of corporate welfare.

You can be of any ethnic background or faith and be a Canadian if you share fundamental Canadian values, learn about our history and culture, and integrate in our society.

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

We must go back and we must be sure that our immigrants will be well-integrated into our society, and the best way to do that is to have more economic immigrants, less refugees a little bit and less reunufication of families.