Zoomer Magazine – September 2019

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SENIORS
PLATFORM
While the People’s
Party has not
published a specific
seniors strategy,
they do list some
financial promises that
would affect seniors’
pocketbooks in various
ways. These include:
TAbolishing capital
gains tax
TAbolishing federal
tax on the first
$15,000 earned
TCutting federal
tax to 15 per
cent on income
between $15,001
and $100,000
TImposing a 25
per cent tax rate
on income above
$100,000
PEOPLE’S
PARTY OF
CANADA
LEADER
MAXIME
BERNIER
FOUNDED
2018
SITTING MPS
1
A
fter Maxime Bernier lost the Tory leader-
ship race to Andrew Scheer, he ventured
out on his own, forming the People’s Party,
a populist/libertarian movement informed
by traditional conservative principles. His
big goal is to shrink government, handing over more
power to the provinces. His vision includes reducing
the number of immigrants to Canada to 250,000 a year
and recruiting those with skills needed in our economy.
While the Party has come under heavy criticism for be-
ing racist and xenophobic, Bernier, like Scheer, has gone
on record saying, “They don't have a place in our party.”
The PPC is currently struggling at the polls, languishing
at four per cent, below even the Bloc Québécois.
THE ECONOMY
Bernier has promised to balance the budget by taking
a scythe to federal spending. This includes scrapping
Canada Post and the CRTC, ending agricultural sup-
ply management, breaking the taboo on private health
care and changing the formula through which Ottawa
delivers health-care funding to the provinces.
Will the People’s
Party garner
sufficient support
to play the spoiler
role in closely fought
contests?
Is Bernier’s
vision too radical
to appeal to
anyone but
fringe voters?