People’s Party of Canada (PPC) Leader Maxime Bernier says he is hopeful support will grow for his party this election, dismissing charges that the party is splitting the conservative vote.
“This party is there for the long term. What we are doing, it’s a quiet revolution, and we know you cannot have a revolution in one election,” Bernier said in an interview. “I’m pretty sure that we’ll grow a percentage of the vote, for sure, at this election.”
The PPC garnered around 5 percent of the vote in the 2021 election and won over 840,000 votes compared to around 294,000 in the 2019 election. According to the polling aggregator 338Canada, the PPC currently sits at around 1 percent support in the polls.
Bernier said he is also working “hard” to get elected in the riding of Beauce in Quebec, which he represented for the Conservatives from 2006 to 2015. Bernier unsuccessfully ran in the riding again in 2019, winning 28 percent of the vote compared to the Conservatives at 38 percent.
Bernier then ran in the riding of York Centre in 2020 and won just 3 percent of the vote, ran again in Beauce to take home 18 percent of the vote to 48 percent for the Tories, and ran in…
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