Bernier’s lack of loyalty, not supply management, behind his job loss: Scheer
OTTAWA — Andrew Scheer is facing a test of his leadership after tossing one-time leadership rival Maxime Bernier from the Conservative shadow cabinet for breaking a promise to stop promoting his controversial political manifesto.
Bernier denies he did anything wrong and some of his supporters are even urging him to break away from the Tories and start his own libertarian party.
Bernier has said very little since Scheer fired him as the party’s innovation critic Tuesday night, but he did take to Twitter to suggest he didn’t understand why he lost his portfolio.
“I just want to clarify one thing at this time,” he wrote. “The chapter on (supply management) posted on my website is THE SAME that was publicly available for weeks on my publisher’s website but was taken down when I decided to postpone the book indefinitely. There is nothing new, I did not ‘publish’ it.”