Maxime Bernier has had a long-standing interest in business and worked for several financial and banking institutions. He become Executive Vice-President of the Montreal Economic Institute in 2005. Many people in the region encouraged him to enter politics. He took up the challenge and was elected a Member of Parliament on January 23, 2006. He was appointed to Cabinet on February 6, 2006, as Minister of Industry. Mr. Bernier also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2008. Re-elected on May 2, 2011, he was appointed Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism. On August 23, 2018, he left the Conservative Party of Canada to sit as an independent MP and announced the launch of a new party. This speech was given at the Capitalism & Morality seminar in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday, 9 September 2023. https://jayantbhandari.com/capitalism… “Radical Decentralization as a Solution to Canada’s Imperial Federalism,” by Maxime Bernier 
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