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Podcast: The Same Drugs
Episode: Maxime Bernier's PPC offers populist hope for Canada
Description: In 2018, Maxime Bernier left the Conservative Party to start the People’s Party of Canada (PPC). The party took on that which almost none other would: the Covid lockdowns and mandates, gender identity ideology, climate change hysteria, DEI, authoritarian hate speech laws, and more.The PPC more closely resembles the populist, freedom-oriented option many Canadians are desperate for, in a sea of parties that often feel barely different from one another. Challenging the woke agenda, as well as mass immigration, has predictably led the party to be smeared as “racist” and “far right.” The party has even taken on the sacred cow that i...