Tuesday, March 25, 2025, Ottawa, ON — The leader of the People’s Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier, today addressed what he describes as the “phony process” set up by the Leaders’ Debates Commission to exclude him from the debates. He was holding a press conference devoted to discussing mass immigration at the border with Maine in Saint-Theophile, QC, at the southern tip of his Beauce riding.
Bernier referred to a TV report about his campaign launch aired last night on Radio-Canada’s Le Téléjournal, in which the host Céline Galipeau described him as “a leader who won’t be at the debates, Maxime Bernier” (our translation).
The clip can be viewed here on his X account: https://x.com/MaximeBernier/status/1904532215859487087
“How is it possible that Ms. Galipeau know this already? I think I have the answer. Radio-Canada/CBC will produce the debates, so they’re talking to the Commission, and I presume everybody there already knows that I won’t be invited. And she spilled the beans live on TV, probably unintentionally.”
The PPC has been invited to send a representative to a preparation meeting at La Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal next Monday, March 31st, one day before the Commission announces its decision on Mr. Bernier’s participation. But the party will not waste precious time during an extremely busy campaign to play this silly game and legitimize the Commission’s phony process. “The dice are loaded,” says the PPC leader.
“Under the 2021 rules, I would automatically have been invited, because the PPC received almost 5% of the vote in the last election. But it’s obvious that the Commission changed the rules only to exclude us,” concluded the PPC leader.
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