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People’s Party2019 Prime Minister

Maxime Bernier

Canadian lawyer and politician.

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Maxime Bernier’s policies on domestic policy issues

These issues below are sorted in descending order based on how important the average Canadian voter ranked them on the quiz.

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Domestic Policy  ›  Armed Teachers

Should teachers be allowed to carry guns at school?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo, hire professionally trained security guards instead

Domestic Policy  ›  Government Surveillance

Should the government be able to monitor phone calls and emails?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo, and enact legislation preventing government surveillance of citizen communications

Domestic Policy  ›  Gun Control

Should there be more restrictions on the current process of purchasing a gun?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo

Domestic Policy  ›  Social Media Regulation

Should the government regulate social media sites, as a means to prevent fake news and misinformation?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo, the government should not determine what is fake or real news

Domestic Policy  ›  Net Neutrality

Should internet service providers be allowed to speed up access to popular websites (that pay higher rates) at the expense of slowing down access to less popular websites (that pay lower rates)?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo, treat all traffic equally and continue the openness of the internet

Domestic Policy  ›  Native Funding

Should Canadian aboriginals receive more government funds?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo

Domestic Policy  ›  Drug Policy

Are you in favor of decriminalizing drug use?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo

Domestic Policy  ›  Quebec Sovereignty

Should Quebec be granted sovereignty from the rest of Canada?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo, sovereignty cannot solve Quebec's problems

Domestic Policy  ›  Whistleblower Protection

Should the government pass laws which protect whistleblowers?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseYes, but only if releasing the information does not threaten our national security

Domestic Policy  ›  Commuter Rail

Should the federal government invest in urban, commuter rail infrastructure?

  Party’s support baseYes

Domestic Policy  ›  Energy Sector

In order to reduce energy costs, should the government nationalize or privatize the energy sector?

  Maxime Bernier voterbasePrivatize

Domestic Policy  ›  National Daycare

Do you support a national daycare policy?

  Party’s support baseNo

Domestic Policy  ›  Drug Policy

Should nonviolent drug offenders be given mandatory jail sentences?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo, we should decriminalize most drugs

Domestic Policy  ›  Flag Burning

Should it be illegal to burn the Canadian flag?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo, this is a violation of free speech

Domestic Policy  ›  CBC Funding

Should the government increase funding to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo, and eliminate funding

Domestic Policy  ›  Senate

Should the federal government elect or abolish the Senate?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseElect, Senators that are elected are less prone to corruption

Domestic Policy  ›  Political Advertising on Social Media

Should social media companies ban political advertising?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo

Domestic Policy  ›  Long Form Census

Should the government reinstate the long form mandatory census?

  Party’s support baseNo

Domestic Policy  ›  Copyright

Should the government allow digital publishers to place locks on their content (MP3s, etc)?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseLet the free market, instead of the government, decide

Domestic Policy  ›  CSA Funding

Should the government increase funding to the CSA (Canadian Standards Association)?

  Maxime Bernier voterbaseNo, and eliminate funding

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…7hrs7H

America’s Housing Market Is Crushing First-Time Buyers

It takes more money than ever to buy a home in America right now. And nearly a third of home buyers navigating the high mortgage rates, rising home prices and low inventory are somehow buying their homes entirely in cash.The share of home buyers paying all cash reached 33 percent through August this year, according to data from Redfin — one of the highest rates since the years following the Great Recession.As cash purchases have become more common, the median age of home buyers has been ticking up and now stands at 56 years old, according to NAR’s data from July 2023 to this June. Even for first-time buyers, the median age has risen to 38 compared to 35 last year.Many of the all-cash buyers are selling previously owned homes to fund their moves. But the rise of cash buys is making it even harder for first-time home buyers. Between July 2023 and June 2024, the share of first-time home buyers in the market was only 24 percent — a historic low.“If it’s a multiple offer situation, it’s likely going to be hard to beat an all-cash offer,” said Jessica Lautz, deputy chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. Cash offers often move quicker and are seen as less risky for the sellers.And the struggle to break into the housing market may not ease anytime soon — property experts surveyed by Reuters expect affordability to get worse for first-time buyers over the next year.

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Mexican Shuts Down 2 Migrant Caravans After Trump Threat

Mexican immigration authorities have broken up two small migrant caravans headed to the U.S. border, activists said Saturday.Some migrants were bused to cities in southern Mexico, and others were offered transit papers.The action comes a week after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to slap 25% tariffs on Mexican products unless the country does more to stem the flow of migrants to the U.S. border.On Wednesday, Trump wrote that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had agreed to stop unauthorized migration across the border into the United States. Sheinbaum wrote on her social media accounts the same day that “migrants and caravans are taken care of before they reach the border.”Migrant rights activist Luis García Villagrán said the breaking-up of the two caravans appeared to be part of “an agreement between the president of Mexico and the president of the United States.”The first of the caravans started out from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, on Nov. 5, the day Trump was elected. At its height it had about 2,500 people. In almost four weeks of walking, it had gone about 270 miles (430 kilometers) to Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca.In Tehuantepec, Mexican immigration officials offered the tired migrants free bus rides to other cities in southern or central Mexico.“They took some of us to Acapulco, others to Morelia, and others from our group to Oaxaca city,” said Bárbara Rodríguez, an opposition supporter who left her native Venezuela after that country's contested presidential elections earlier this year.Rodríguez said by telephone she later caught a bus on her own to Mexico City.In a statement Saturday, the National Immigration Institute said the migrants voluntary accepted bus rides “to various areas where there is medical assistance and where their migratory status will be reviewed,” and said “upon accepting (the rides), they said they no longer wanted to face the risks along their way.”

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