Maxime Bernier

A dragon, a marijuana activist and a former Tory MP who backed maverick MP Maxime Bernier's leadership campaign are now throwing their weight behind his fledgling new political party.

A Manitoba MLA and former federal cabinet minister is taking a page from Maxime Bernier's playbook and becoming the leader of a new party.

Maxime Bernier claimed on Wednesday, September 5, 2018, that he has raised more than $90,000 for his new political venture and says the party he intends to lead will be in place by the time his political rivals return to Ottawa.

Maxime Bernier's closest caucus ally says he has no plans to join the renegade Quebec MP's new party.

Conservatives, from leader Andrew Scheer on down, are predicting that Maxime Bernier's decision to quit their party and start his own will end up helping Justin Trudeau's Liberals win re-election next year.

What was expected to be a standard-issue, pre-election rallying cry has suddenly become one of the most important speeches of Andrew Scheer's career as leader of the federal Conservatives.

Conservative Member of Parliament Maxime Bernier said Thursday he was quitting the Conservative Party of Canada and launching a national party of his own.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was under mounting pressure to denounce Maxime Bernier's public statements and kick him out of caucus on on Wednesday, August 15, 2018, after the maverick MP used his Twitter feed to renew a sustained attack on "extreme Liberal multiculturalism."

Maxime Bernier's immigrant bashing wouldn’t be so offensive and worrisome if it were coming from some marginal political figure, but this isn’t some random, fringe member of the Conservative Party. He has been a long-standing member of Parliament, representing the Quebec riding of Beauce, has served in Harper’s administration for years, and came in a close second in the party's leadership race.

Quebec's labour movement is gearing up ahead of the October election as it faces the prospect of another four years with limited influence in the provincial government.

Conservative MP Maxime Bernier says he's the only politician in Ottawa who supports truly free trade with the U.S., and while it's not his role to negotiate NAFTA with U.S. President Donald Trump, he thinks it's "sad" he's the only one who wants to put supply management on the trading table.

There is money in the bank. Voters in the hopper. And from many angles, a spring in the step of many Conservatives these days.

​Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer promised an independent, third-party investigation of the Rick Dykstra controversy Wednesday as his own caucus members wondered aloud how the Ontario MP was allowed to run in 2015 despite facing serious allegations of sexual assault.

One of the most prominent members of the federal Conservative caucus is demanding answers from the party about the Rick Dykstra controversy.

In his first speech to the House of Commons on Monday, new Conservative leader Andrew Scheer said his cues will come from Canada's soccer fields, legion halls and grocery stores.