A business audience in Saint John hearing a speech from the leader of Canada’s newest political party.
Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada, spoke about equalization, Energy East, supply management for poultry and egg farmers and more.
Speaking in #SaintJohn, Maxime Bernier of the People’s Party of Canada supports Premier Blaine Higgs’ opinion on equalization payments. #sjnews pic.twitter.com/EguEEtrr8a
— Tamara Steele (@tamarasteele1) January 17, 2019
Bernier tells us things are going well and they are working to have candidates in every riding by the end of May.
“We need to have a candidate in a byelection to be an officially registered party and that will happen next week because we have candidates in the three byelections right now,” Bernier said.
Bernier says they want to reduce the number of global immigrants coming into Canada every year.
“But more economic immigrants, 75 per cent of new immigrants must be economic immigrants and that means fewer refugees, fewer reunification of families,” Bernier stated.
On Twitter, Saint John-Rothesay MP Wayne Long said cutting immigration is not the solution for his riding saying Bernier’s policies will not work here.
