Camicon wrote:Oneracon wrote:So after a meeting with avowed "anti-SJW" crusader Jordan Peterson, Maxime Bernier announced that he will repeal Bill C-16 (which extends federal hate crime protections to include gender identity and expression) if he leads the Conservatives to victory in the next election.
He attributed the origin of the bill to the "proliferation of groups that claim various sexual identities in recent years", he goes to say that Bill C-16 is an attack on freedom of speech and attributes it to these groups which are "radical left-wing activists trying to deconstruct traditional social norms and impose their marginal perspective on everyone, including by forcing us to change the way we talk."
This despite the fact that he voted for Bill C-16 in October at the division vote when the bill was at second reading. There isn't a record of how he voted at third reading since it was passed on a voice vote. (Voting on division, where each individual member's vote is counted and recorded, is only done in the House of Commons if 5 MPs request that the Speaker do so)
Public statement on Bernier's page: https://www.facebook.com/notes/maxime-b ... 3654082420
PressProgress story (blah-dee-bloo it's whinging leftie bias, sue me): https://www.pressprogress.ca/conservati ... egislation
Isn't Bernier supposed to be one of the sane ones?
I think that depends on your definition. There's no "out there" policies like Leitch and her "Canadian values" but a lot of his policies seem a little... weird... on second look.
That being said, his basic platform thus far has been: Guns good, farms good, trade deals good, taxes bad, UN bad, equalization payments bad.