Maxime Bernier
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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the international students to finance their operations. So that's also, and I told you, university, no. You won't use that trick to be able to have more money. Just raise your fees if you want to.
Zuerst geht es um die Immigration. Keine mehr Immigranten. Das ist wichtig. Zweitens geht es um die Wirtschaft. Wir wollen den Budget in Kanada balancieren. Wir können das in einem Jahr machen. We will cut foreign aid $8 billion. We'll save that. We'll cut corporate subsidies $10 billion. Our deficit in Canada this year is $62 billion. So we can achieve that.
Polyev is not speaking about that, because it's not popular to speak about cutting. We will cut. We'll have a smaller government in Canada. We'll have our Canadian Dodge. I said that in 2020 that we need to have a department of downsizing the government. I said that in 2020. So we will do that. We'll balance the budget. We'll lower taxes. We'll have a flat tax on business at 15%.
We have five tax brackets in Canada right now on your income. We'll go down to three and the goal is go down to one. So reforming the federal government, downsizing the federal government, respecting our constitution. Right now the federal government is a big fat government, interfering in provincial jurisdiction and provincial autonomy. We'll do that. We'll be able.
And we have also a capital gains tax in Canada. We will cut that. No more capital gains tax in Canada. So, lowering taxes and we don't have a real free trade in Canada. You know, this country has been built in 1867. Und der Grund dafür, dass wir als Land existieren, war zuerst, um in Kanada eine ökonomische Union zu haben, um gegen euch im Süden zu kämpfen.
Das war die Idee, eine ökonomische Union zu haben. Und jetzt haben wir das nicht. Es gibt direkte Grenzen zwischen den Provinzen. Also müssen wir eine echte ökonomische Union haben. Wir müssen darüber arbeiten. Wir müssen auch unsere natürlichen Ressourcen entwickeln. In meiner eigenen Provinz in Québec gibt es ein Moratorium auf die Entwicklung von Schellgas, zum Beispiel.
We need to be real pro market and be able to develop natural resources. To do that, we need to withdraw from the Paris Accord. But Polyev is okay with that. Polyev, I must admit, he won't impose a carbon tax to Canadian consumers, but he will impose more regulation on businesses, he will give subsidies to the green industry, because he will do everything to achieve the Paris Accord targets.
We won't. We will withdraw from that like President Trump. So, yes, we need to have that big, you know, and bold reforms at the federal level to be sure to have a smarter government, being able to lower taxes and be giving more money in pockets of families.
I'm not open to the 51st state. You know, I'm doing like Trump in Canada. I'm fighting for Canadians and for the sovereignty of our country. I'm putting my people first. So the way to deal with President Trump, it's, you know, you need to... Right now, we have a free trade agreement between us, the US and Mexico. And that... That will have to be reopened in 2026.
We need to reopen that free trade agreement right now. And we need to put everything on the table. For example, President Trump is the one who negotiated the free trade agreement when he was president at his first term. And he wanted to, for your dairy producers, to be able for them to export their milk in Canada.
But because we have a cartel, a system called the supply management, you know, our dairy, poultry and eggs producers are producing only for the Canadian market. They cannot export and they are fixing the price. They call that supply management. It's a legal cartel. So, and Trump was not so happy at the last negotiation because, you know, we said no.
We have to protect the cartel and we want to open our borders to your milk, cheese and eggs. So we need to put that on the table. But Polyev and Trudeau, they want to protect the cartel. They are very influential. Actually, you know, they did...
They did buy membership cards of the Conservative Party of Canada when I was running to be the leader to be sure that I won't win because I said at that time, 10 years ago, we need to abolish that cartel and it would be good for Canadian consumers because we are paying twice the price if we compare that price with prices in the US for milk, poultry and eggs because of that cartel.
So let's put that on the table and the only one who is saying that We will be able to have a good deal. And Trump said, you know, if you are imposing tariff, I will impose tariff. If you withdraw your tariff, I will do the same. I believe in free trade. Let's do a real free trade.
But right now there's 300% tariffs on the milk and you cannot export your milk in Canada because you won't be competitive with that tariff of 300%. But it's not only with milk, it's a lot of other products. We don't have a free trade between Canada and US. We have a managed trade. Trump wants to have a fair relationship. Let's abolish all these tariffs. It will be good for us and good for you.
So first, put everything on the table. Be sure to reinvest to protect our borders. Be sure to reinvest also in our own defense. We are not doing that. We need to at least protect spend 2% of our GDP in our defense. We're not doing that. It's maybe 1.2% or something like that. We need also to have a new defense relationship with the U.S.
And, you know, Trump is a little bit concerned about the North. Our border in the north with Russia and the Arctic. We need to be sure we don't have a base over there as Canadians. So we need to invest there. We need to protect and have a new agreement, a defense agreement with you guys so we can do that. If we do that, I'm pretty sure that we'll have a good deal.
When Trump is speaking about, you know, Governor Trudeau or 51st State, For me, it won't happen, it's not serious. But what I understand also, he wants to bring back manufacturing industry in the US, including businesses from Canada. So what we have to do as a country, we need to have economic policies that will be more competitive. So our income tax on business is too high.
So, let's let the free market decide, but I want to compete with the US and I want our businesses to be able to compete with you guys, but now they're not able. That's why there's tariffs, so we need to lower tax on business, cut capital gains tax, less regulation, and like that, that's the only way to build our country and to be competitive.
I think because first, you know, Polyev is speaking about, you know, a bigger trade war with US. Polyev is the first one who said, you know, we must impose... Dollar for dollar tariffs. And now Carney is going away from that. Carney and the Liberals did impose 25% tariffs on us, on Canadians.
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