People's Party of Canada Parti populaire du Canada | |
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Abbreviation | PPC |
Leader | Maxime Bernier |
Founder | Maxime Bernier |
Founded | September 14, 2018 |
Split from | Conservative Party of Canada |
Headquarters | Gatineau, Quebec, Canada |
Youth wing | New Generation PPC |
Membership (2021) | ![]() |
Ideology | |
Political position | Right-wing to far-right |
Colours | Purple |
Senate | 0 / 105 |
House of Commons | 0 / 338 |
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The People's Party of Canada (PPC; French: Parti populaire du Canada) is a federal political party in Canada. The party was formed by Maxime Bernier in September 2018, shortly after his resignation from the Conservative Party of Canada. It is placed on the right[2][3] to far right[4][5][6] of the political spectrum.[2][3][7]
Bernier, a former candidate for the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election and cabinet minister, was the party's only Member of Parliament (MP) from its founding in 2018 to his defeat in the 2019 Canadian federal election. The PPC formed electoral district associations in 326 ridings,[8] and ran candidates in 315 ridings,[8][9] of Canada's total 338 ridings, in the 2019 federal election; however, no candidate was elected under its banner and Bernier lost his bid for personal re-election in Beauce.[8] The party ran 312 candidates in the 2021 Canadian federal election; none were elected to parliament, despite it increasing its share of the popular vote to nearly 5%.[10][11]
The party has been described primarily as conservative[12][13][14] with right-wing populist[15][16][17] and right-libertarian[2] policies. Specific policies advocated by the party include reducing immigration to Canada to 150,000 entrants per year,[18] scrapping the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, ending corporate welfare, and ending supply management. In the 2021 federal election, the PPC also ran in opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, vaccine passports, and compulsory vaccinations.[19][20]
The wildcard coming into the evening was Maxime Bernier, leader of the far-right populist party the People's party of Canada. Formed amid a feud between Bernier and the Conservative party, its platform is defined by restrictive immigration politics and climate change denial.
... Canada's first racialized federal party leader repeatedly squared off against the boss of the country's newest far-right party at the English-language election debate.
He [Trudeau] continued attacking Scheer on the economy in an at-times chaotic three-way debate segment with the Conservative leader and far-right People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier.
The party went into the campaign pledging to nominate a candidate for all 338 ridings, but secured 326 and only registered 315 by Elections Canada's nomination deadline.
He added that his heart goes out to the 315 PPC candidates across the country.
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