Maxime Bernier is leaving the Conservative Party with a bang.
As the party kicked off its policy convention in Halifax to huddle ahead of next year’s election, Bernier ripped into Conservative leader Andrew Scheer and his caucus colleagues at a news conference from Ottawa Thursday, where he announced to reporters he’s leaving the party and plans to explore forming one of his own.
Bernier said the Conservative party has “all but abandoned its core conservative principals” under the “current leadership.”
He attacked the party for supporting the Liberal government on a range of issues, including the retaliatory tariffs launched against the U.S., as well as for refusing to end corporate subsidies and supporting Canada’s supply management system for dairy products – even though he says some in the caucus want the dairy “cartel” shut down. In other words, positions Bernier held during the leadership race more than a year ago.
“The Conservative party has abandoned conservatives,” he said. “It does not represent them anymore. And it has nothing of substance to offer Canadians looking for an alternative.”
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