# Maxime Bernier: Liberty Is the Cure for a Failing West

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Published: 2025-10-17T12:02:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode of The Covered Call , we sit down with Maxime Bernier — former Canadian cabinet minister, founder of the People’s Party of Canada, and one of the few politicians who’s actually walked away from power to defend principle. Maxime spent over a decade inside Canada’s political machine before saying enough was enough. In this conversation, he breaks down why the West is in decline — not just economically, but morally and philosophically — and why liberty, not bureaucracy , is the only real cure. We talk about: * The coming monetary reset and why gold will reprice the entire system * How mass welfare and mass immigration are eroding the social fabric * Why comfort is killing our freedom * And what it takes to leave behind a life of political privilege to stand for conviction A note about this episode: This isn’t a policy debate — it’s a look at the deeper civilizational struggle between freedom and control , responsibility and dependency . Maxime is banging the drum for mass deportations pretty hard, and this rhetoric rubs us, as the hosts of the show, a bit wrong. We are both guests in the countries we choose to live in, and believe in small, efficient government and cannot earnestly reconcile that a small government would engage in actions such as mass deportations. In our own opinion, a small government would rather address the underlying incentives to curb and reverse the kind of immigration that would bring a society over its “carrying capacity”. Please listen to the end, where Jason and Lovis recap and share more of our personal view on the subject. Stay free, Lovis & Jason This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit podcast.thecoveredcallpod.com

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