The PPC now and then.

In 2019, the Peoples Party of Canada was a fresh face in the federal political scene. Maxime Bernier was a rising star and tried to catch the tail of that star to no avail.

A lot has happened in 5 years.

I recall events leading up to the launch of the PPC by Maxime Bernier and have cause to reflect on them. When I was a PPC candidate in 2019 will give you a sense of the times and my experience.

The early days of the Peoples Party of Canada (PPC) were particularly exciting times for me, a long-time Libertarian. The period just before it was accounced to the Canadian public was especially so.

A few months before Maxime Bernier announced his new federal party, I met him briefly in Ottawa at a restaurant where he was meeting several of my fellow Libertarians in a “meet and greet” session. I was in Ottawa to attend a national convention of the Libertarian Party of Canada (LPoC). Max was in private discussions with Tim Moen, then Leader of the LPoC, about the potential of Max replacing Tim as Party Leader. The buzz among those attending the LPoC convention was generally positive. Most of us agreed that Max brought an excellent political profile, contacts, experience and reputation to the LPoC. He was considered as highly principled “Conservative’s Conservative” which was tantamount to being a “Libertarian Conservative”.

Soon after that meeting, Max announced the Peoples Party of Canada which made national news. He had evidently assessed the LPoC and concluded it best to start a fresh Party rather than lead one with baggage and no real progress in nearly 50 years of existence.

My wife joined the PPC before me. In early 2019, she had watched a podcast in which Dave Rubin interviewed Max and she urged me to watch it. Max impressed me as having values and political aspirations similar to my own. I was impressed.

A few weeks later, I attended the first PPC meeting organized for the Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock (HKLB) electoral riding. About twenty local residents were present from which the PPC Regional Coordinator sought to create an executive team for a new HKLB Riding Association and to identify a potential candidate for the upcoming election. When no one stepped forward as a candidate, I reluctantly offered stating that I had intended to run for the LPoC, and I asked them to keep looking for a better candidate.

By election time, I was the chosen PPC candidate and accepted the challenge to experience what it would be like to be the candidate of a political party that was much better funded and organized than what I had experienced in six prior elections as a Libertarian. While I was registered as a PPC candidate, the little campaigning I did was based on my Libertarian principles and values which aligned well with much of the published PPC platform.

The results achieved by the PPC in their first election was nothing short of miraculous especially given the roadblocks that Max and his Party faced compliments of the election rule-makers, the state-subsidized corporate media organizations and the coordinated efforts of the Cabal of Political Power comprised of the LIB, CON, NDP, GREEN and BQ parties backed by Elections Canada and its biased book of rules and red tape.

Nothing smells of corruption worse than seeing the Cabal in action, up front and personal, as every PPC candidate across Canada experienced that year.

The PPC in 2024

This week, Tish Conlin ran as the PPC candidate in the Durham by-election. She and a small team campaigned steadily for two months. They appeared to have a much richer campaign budget than I had in the 2019 general election, likely subsidized from PPC HQ.

One public event was held which featured Maxime Bernier as the keynote speaker; there was no media coverage.

A 4% total vote count was the final result. This exceeded my 2% count in 2019 after running a virtually non-existent campaign.

My point is this.

The PPC and its prospects for getting a candidate elected are currently neglible because the headwinds that every “fringe party” candidate faces are overwhelming in spite of the money and effort invested. The “Political Power Cabal” is a fortress. It has unscalable walls for anyone who hopes to join its inner circle of the political elites and the government officials who rule freely over all Canadians.

I tell this story to reinforce my recent claim…

Canada is no longer a democracy.

A coup has successfully taken place. “To the victors go the spoils” which, in this case, is full access to the “honey pot” of power used to control Canadian “tax slaves” to feed the self-interests of the victors.

All that is left of what many Canadians still believe to be “democracy” is the ILLUSION of one.