Maxime Bernier

Some taxes are really dumb.

— Maxime Bernier

I'm a kind of an entrepreneur.

— Maxime Bernier

I believe in climate change.

— Maxime Bernier

I like free markets, I like competition.

— Maxime Bernier

The U.N. is a dysfunctional organization.

— Maxime Bernier

I want to get rid of corporate welfare.

— Maxime Bernier

I am not a communist.

— Maxime Bernier

They call me the Albertan of Quebec. It stuck.

— Maxime Bernier

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

Yes, I worked in Montreal. I worked there for 20 years... I came back to Beauce in 2006 to represent the Beaucerons.

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

I can understand why immigrants would want to bring the rest of their extended family here, including older ones who will benefit…

— Maxime Bernier

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…

— Maxime Bernier

My party will do nothing on climate change because environment, it's a shared jurisdiction, and provinces, they have programs for that, and…

— Maxime Bernier

Do we want to emphasize our ethnic and religious differences, and exploit them to buy votes, as the Liberals are doing? Or…

— Maxime Bernier

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…

— Maxime Bernier

I am in politics to defend ideas, real conservative ideas. Because I passionately care about Canada's future. Because I know that the…

— Maxime Bernier

From the perspective of corporations, taxes are an additional cost of doing business. If you increase their taxes, to remain profitable they…

— Maxime Bernier

We must go back and we must be sure that our immigrants will be well-integrated into our society, and the best way…

— Maxime Bernier

We want First Nations and these people to be like Canadians on a lot of points of view. Right now, that's not…

— Maxime Bernier

Brian Mulroney came to power in 1984 and privatized Petro-Canada, brought in the GST and signed the free trade agreement with the…

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.

— Maxime Bernier

Integrating is easier when you have a job in Canada.

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier

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

— Maxime Bernier