Maxime Bernier
Canadian politician
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| 2025 | Bernier ran in his old riding of Beauce during the federal election, placing fourth with 5.8% of the vote, while the People's Party of Canada declined to less than 1% in the popular vote. |
| May 12 2023 | Bernier announced his candidacy for the Portage-Lisgar by-election in Manitoba, ultimately finishing second with 17.16% of the vote. |
| February 2022 | Bernier was ordered to pay $132,000 in legal costs to Warren Kinsella following the dismissed lawsuit. |
| January 2022 | Bernier supported the Canada convoy protest in Ottawa, criticizing government health measures during the pandemic. |
| 2021 | Bernier led the People's Party of Canada in the federal election, running in his old riding of Beauce and losing to Richard Lehoux. The PPC increased its popular vote to nearly five percent, tripling its 2019 result. |
| December 2021 | Bernier was confirmed to continue as leader of the People's Party after a leadership review. |
| November 2021 | The Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed Bernier's defamation lawsuit against Warren Kinsella under Anti-SLAPP legislation. |
| August 2021 | Bernier publicly stated he would not receive a COVID-19 vaccine. |
| July 2021 | An affidavit was filed in court alleging Maxime Bernier made a racist remark about NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, which Bernier denied. |
| June 11 2021 | Bernier was arrested and fined by the RCMP in St-Pierre-Jolys, Manitoba, after attending a rally against COVID-19 restrictions. He paid $1000 bail and returned to Montreal. |
| June 6 2021 | Bernier spoke at a rally in Waterloo, Ontario with other PPC candidates, criticized by the mayor for holding a political campaign event during the pandemic. |
| May 8 2021 | Bernier spoke at a protest with Chris Sky in Regina, Saskatchewan, and received a $2800 ticket. |
| May 2 2021 | Bernier attended a protest in Montreal that was large enough to close the mass vaccination clinic at the Olympic Stadium. |
| April 24 2021 | Bernier was ticketed for participating in a rally in Peterborough that violated the Reopening Ontario Act. |
| April 17 2021 | Bernier spoke to several hundred people at a protest in Barrie, Ontario, despite discouragement from local officials. |
| October 26 2020 | Bernier ran in the York Centre by-election, finishing fourth with 642 votes (3.56 per cent). |
| February 2020 | Bernier launched a $325,000 defamation lawsuit against Warren Kinsella for branding him a racist during the 2019 election. |
| 2019 | Married Catherine Letarte in the summer. |
| 2019 | Lost his parliamentary seat to Conservative candidate Richard Lehoux in the federal election. |
| December 2019 | After Andrew Scheer's resignation as Conservative Party leader, Bernier stated he would not be interested in returning to the party. |
| September 4 2019 | After receiving widespread backlash, Bernier backpedaled from his previous comments about Greta Thunberg. |
| September 2 2019 | Bernier posted controversial tweets calling climate activist Greta Thunberg 'mentally unstable'. |
| December 2018 | Revelations emerged that some of the People's Party of Canada's founding signatories had ties to American white nationalist and anti-immigrant groups, which the party attributed to limited vetting resources during its formation. |
| September 14 2018 | Bernier officially announced the creation of the People's Party of Canada, advocating for 'smart populism' and positioning the party to the right of the Conservative Party. |
| August 2018 | Bernier generated controversy with a series of Twitter posts criticizing Prime Minister Trudeau's 'diversity is our strength' comments and denouncing what he called 'extreme multiculturalism'. |
| August 23 2018 | Maxime Bernier announced his departure from the Conservative Party, declaring the party was 'too intellectually and morally corrupt to be reformed' and signaling his intention to found a new political party. |
| June 15 2018 | Bernier stated in an interview that he believed his stance on supply management was the real reason behind his dismissal from the shadow cabinet. |
| June 12 2018 | Andrew Scheer dismissed Bernier from the Official Opposition shadow cabinet, alleging he violated a pledge to delay book publication by posting a chapter on his website. |
| April 2018 | Bernier pre-released a chapter of his book 'Doing Politics Differently: My Vision for Canada', which criticized Quebec's dairy farmer lobby as 'fake Conservatives'. He agreed to postpone the book's publication indefinitely for party unity. |
| January 31 2018 | Bernier publicly demanded answers about sexual assault allegations against former Conservative MP Rick Dykstra during a caucus meeting, leading Scheer to call for a third-party investigation. |
| 2017 | Ran for Conservative Party leadership, finishing second to Andrew Scheer after 13 rounds of voting. |
| August 31 2017 | Maxime Bernier was re-appointed as critic for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada by Andrew Scheer. |
| 2014 | Participated in the Rodeo de Cochons after being challenged by a local mayor. |
| September 2013 | Trained for and ran an ultramarathon across his riding to raise funds for a local food bank. |
| 2011 | Appointed as Minister of State for small business and tourism. |
| 2010 | Began a relationship with Catherine Letarte, a National Ballet School-trained ballerina who works with a women's shelter and community centre for adults with mental health issues. |
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