The leader of the People’s Party of Canada brought his campaign to Saint John, New Brunswick on Friday.
Maxime Bernier said the PPC are the only national party that will keep Canada “free and prosperous”.
Bernier added his party will fight against the “COVID hysteria”.
“We believe in freedom of choice for the vaccine, freedom of choice for the mask. We are against the mask mandate. We are against the vaccine passport,” Bernier said.
Bernier said it’s “unconstitutional, illegal and unfair” to impose a vaccine passport on those who want to travel in Canada.
The PPC leader maintains his party is not anti-mask or anti-vaccine but instead they support choice.
He said 80 per cent of the deaths from COVID-19 involved older people living in nursing homes.
This is why he advised his 87-year-old father to get a vaccine.
“I decided not to take the vaccine myself. I am 58-years-old and my chances of dying if I have COVID are 0.5 per cent so my changes of surviving are 99.5 per cent,” Bernier said.
Bernier believes this issue is dividing the population adding some people won’t have the same rights as others.
New Brunswick’s Education Minister Dominic Cardy who was also in Saint John on Friday had a discussion with Maxime Bernier about their differing views.
A handful of supporters were with PPC leader Maxime Bernier in Saint John today. He’s spending the weekend campaigning in New Brunswick. pic.twitter.com/36KixDthZe
— Tamara Steele (@tamarasteele1) August 27, 2021
