‘This is just Maxime Bernier’s vanity project’: don’t expect surprises from PPC leadership review, say politicos

With no seat in the House, People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier 'needs to [have] some kind of positive marker of legitimacy,' says Prof. Frederic Boily, while 338Canada's Philippe Fournier dismissed the exercise as a 'vanity project.'

People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier, pictured on April 15, 2021, with Ontario MPP Randy Hillier after they held a press conference in West Block to protest provincial and federal restrictions in the fight against COVID-19.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ALICE CHEN

November 19, 2021

The leadership review that the People’s Party of Canada is currently running is a vanity project for founder Maxime Bernier, say critics, while Mr. Bernier and other political observers say it's a well-intentioned exercise that's no different from those of other political parties. Philippe Fourni...

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