OTTAWA—Quebec MP Maxime Bernier is calling his new political venture The People’s Party of Canada.
Bernier says the name — which will be PPC for short — fits a party that represents people who are tired of Canadian politics being hijacked by special interest groups, cartels and lobbyists.
He says that if people do not like his ideas “that’s OK, don’t vote for me.”
“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.”
The maverick MP quit his party last month after spending much of the year butting heads with Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer over supply management. Scheer removed him from the Conservative shadow cabinet in June.
Bernier says the new party will be registered with Elections Canada over the next several weeks but that it takes time to do all the required steps.