Top 44 Maxime Bernier Quotes

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

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

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

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

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

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.

We care about shared values, culture and identity.

I’m a kind of an entrepreneur.

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.

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

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

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

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

Taxing corporations means unnecessarily burdening our wealth-creating machines.

They call me the Albertan of Quebec. It stuck.

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

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.

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

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

You must build public policies on reason, on facts.

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

I’m very different from other politicians.

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

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

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

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

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

Integrating is easier when you have a job in Canada.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The U.N. is a dysfunctional organization.

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

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

People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don’t make our society strong.

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.

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.

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

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