My Canadian tour
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been invited by local conservative associations to deliver several speeches before hundreds of party members accross Canada. Every time, just like I did in my Calgary, Winnipeg and Mont-St-Grégoire speeches, I talk about our conservative values, that is, about individual freedom and responsibility, free markets and the need to shrink government intervention in the economy and in our lives.
I am always pleasantly surprised to see how the people attending these events appreciate that kind of message. I want to use this opportunity to again thank them for coming to hear me and to encourage them to promote our values and continue their important work to get their local candidate elected at the next election.
Here are some pictures taken at these events.
Here I am with members of the board of directors of the St-Maurice-Champlain association in Trois-Rivières on June 13. They are Mr. Michel Champagne, president, Mr. Marco Gauvin, recruitment director and Mr. Maxim Boivert, director of communications. The event gathered members from this and other associations in the region.
On June 26, I was the speaker for an event in the beautiful region of Courtenay in BC. On the picture, my colleague John Duncan, MP for Vancouver Island North, serves oysters. This article was published in a local paper.
On July 7, I talked to party members in Kenora, Ontario, a riding represented in Parliament by my colleague Greg Rickford.
Members from the Brome-Missisquoi riding welcomed me in Magog on July 11. Here I am with the conservative association board of directors.
Finally, I was in Port Franks last Sunday, on the shores of Lake Huron in southern Ontario, where I spoke before a group of members from Lambton-Kent-Middlesex. On the picture, I am accompanied by the host of the event, Mr. Bill Graham, as well as my colleague Bev Shipley, the local MP.
This article discussing my Canadian tour appeared a few days ago in the Journal de Québec and the Journal de Montréal as well as this one in Le Soleil.
I am going to be in Edmonton this coming Saturday for an important event organized by 14 riding associations from northern Alberta. I will visit other Canadian cities in the coming months.
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Good work Maxime!
Keep on with your great message… this country needs to hear much more about individual freedom and responsibility. The values that made our country great, but now seem to be getting chipped away increasingly with the rise of socialism in our media and opposition parties. The Conservative party could be be stronger at voicing these important values as well.
Keep on with the message that you are spreading. It resonates well with me and with many others in Ontario. The term “Grits” refers to old time rural Liberals from southern Ontario. That old time heritage now votes Conservative. Only the current Conservatives reflect their traditional values.
Montreal and Toronto are left wing liberals who espouse a new socialist type of Liberalism. Strangely, Toronto changed with the English diaspora from Montreal. We only need to overcome habit in Quebec and the Maritime provinces to become a true countrywide party. Toronto will not easily change as long as the biased and socialist Toronto Star is the largest read newspaper.
Also, my Canada has always included Quebec. If Quebec and the rest of the country cannot find a way to grow and prosper together, then what is the hope for the rest of the world.
Maxime, I hope you received a warm traditional Northern Alberta welcome. My apologies for missing you, but I had earlier commitments that I could not get out of.
Thank you for all you are doing, and I don’t take any of it for granted.
‘… our conservative values, that is, about individual freedom and responsibility, free markets and the need to shrink government intervention in the economy and in our lives. ‘
When I was growing up, the Conservative party was considered the party of big business and the wealthy. The NDP were the radical socialists and the Liberals protected the intersts of the ‘average working class’.
Those perceptions have changed dramatically over the years. Pandering to special interests (corporations and unions) and government financed collectivism (socialism) have evolved over the years to create our ‘mixed economy’ where it is now our government that regulates the economy and redistributes Our (tax payer) wealth to such an extent that the individual rights and freedoms of the ‘average working class’ have all but been eroded.
We must get back to a reasonable government that is responsible to the individual. Every individual must be allowed to work to achieve his/her own rational self-interest without interference.
The Conservative vision put forth by you Mr. Bernier answers that call. The plain spoken common sense approach IS understood and the opportunity and invitation to debate is appreciated by the ‘average working class’ in need of such support, when they can be reached.
For that reason, I fully support and applaud everything you are doing to make this discussion come alive. However your tireless efforts mst be promoted by those of us who wish to expand the interaction, throughout Canada as well as here in your riding, where perhaps the message will seep through to the provincial level where government intervention and collectivism, and every restraint upon the individual that implies, is the paralysing norm.
This blog must be referenced and promoted in every political blog and editorial online with the mention that it is the only place where an MP is actually posting concrete ideas and inviting debate from the individual. Respect for the electorate … an innovative concept to be sure … forget the 40 page census … your actual input is of value here …
Merci M Bernier …
Marco Gauvin et Maxime Bernier sur la même photo, c’est trop drôle…..