I present 6 issues that make Maxime Bernier the wrong choice for CPC leader, in my mind:
1. Ongoing Conservative Membership fraud scandal
2. Relationship to Julie Couillard, who had intimate ties to organized crime (Hell's Angels)
3. He left classified NATO documents are her home for 5 weeks, and ended up having to resign as Minister of Foreign Affairs
4. A career politician and banker (son of a politician, too); by no means an outsider;
5. The MSM's support of him; CBC and others proclaiming him the perceived front-runner (along with O'Leary); HuffPo puff-piece; CTV calling recently calling him the "Albertan" from Quebec
6. Was indeed a separatist, donated and worked for the Bloc
Links/Sources:
Conservative Party expels nearly 1,400 members after three leadership campaigns allege fraud --
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/conservative-party-expels-nearly-1400-members-after-three-leadership-campaigns-allege-fraud"The Ides of Bernier" --
https://youtu.be/zV-yj0nlfR0Case of Bernier-Couillard (translated from French Wikipedia) --
https://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Bernier-Couillard&prev=search
Wikipedia, Maxime Bernier - Foreign Affairs Minister (Couillard Affair and Contraversy) --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime_Bernier#Foreign_Affairs_MinisterCTV, Maxime Bernier resigns as foreign affairs minister --
http://www.ctvnews.ca/maxime-bernier-resigns-as-foreign-affairs-minister-1.298239HuffPo puff-piece --
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/derek-fildebrandt/maxime-bernier-alberta_b_15362952.html?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004Ex-Quebec premier says he's disappointed with Bernier (regarding Bernier's being a separatist) --
http://www.ctvnews.ca/ex-quebec-premier-says-he-s-disappointed-with-bernier-1.507836CTV, Maxime Bernier, the 'Albertan from Quebec' --
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/maxime-bernier-the-albertan-from-quebec-1.3306995---------------------------------------------------------------
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