My first reaction when I saw that half the Conservative Quebec caucus was defeated on election night was that Maxime Bernier is going back to cabinet. The thought of Mr. Bernier acting as an influence on policy in a Conservative majority government gave me reason to be optimistic. I should know by now that anytime [...]
Category Archives: Maxime Bernier
Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on May 19, 2011 4 comments
Maxime Bernier on Bill 101
Posted by Terrence Watson on February 6, 2011 4 comments
Maxime Bernier is at it again. Appearing last Friday on a Halifax radio show, Bernier claimed that Bill 101, the Quebec language law, is unnecessary. The program’s host, Jordi Morgan, was speaking with Bernier about the broader issue of government enacting legislation in order to maintain a sense of national identity. Bernier said he didn’t [...]
Frances Russell versus Maxime Bernier on decentralization
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on January 12, 2011 6 comments
Frances Russell, a columnist at Winnipeg Free Press, has come out in defense of a large and all encompassing central government for Canada’s federation. This is in response, primarily, to Maxime Bernier’s speech where he suggested that provincial governments should be allowed to decide their own health care policy without so much interference from the [...]
Maxime Bernier versus the Federal Reserve
Posted by Hugh MacIntyre on December 10, 2010 Comments Off
Former Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier has released a video where he talks about the danger of QE2. He correctly identifies the Federal Reserve’s policies as a fundamental cause of the economic crisis, and he warns that the Fed’s current policy will only make things worse: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Three reasons why we shouldn’t care about original intentions (and two reason why we should)
Posted by Peter Jaworski on November 14, 2010 12 comments
Terrence and I have been busy thinking about doctrines of constitutional interpretation for about the last year or two. We have a project on-the-go, which we’ll talk about soon. Recently, Maxime Bernier stood up in defence of “originalism” as a method of constitutional interpretation. But there are many kinds of “originalism,” some of them better [...]
The curious case of Maxime Bernier
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 28, 2010 Comments Off
Here’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin discussing libertarian MP Maxime Bernier with, amongst others, Gerry Nicholls: ShareFacebookStumbleUponDiggRedditEmail
Meeting of quasi-libertarians in Quebec
Posted by Peter Jaworski on October 23, 2010 1 comment
Our favourite MP (sometimes second-favourite after Scott Reid) Maxime Bernier: And now you have people who believe in less government, who believe in more freedom, and who think we have too much government on our back and too much government in our pocket. Here’s what he’s talking about. UPDATE: Here’s some more on the effort: [...]