People's Party of Canada
Federal political party
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| March 24 2025 | CTV mistakenly displayed a graphic showing PPC polling in third place and potentially winning 84 seats, which contradicts actual polling data showing zero seat projections. |
| January 28 2025 | Former PPC candidate Trevor Wowk faced three new charges including violations of the Tobacco Tax Act, Excise Act, and Criminal Code of Canada, in addition to previous gun-related charges. |
| October 18 2024 | Maxime Bernier made controversial statements about Hardeep Singh Nijjar, claiming he was not a Canadian citizen and that his murder by Indian intelligence was part of 'tribal conflicts'. |
| September 16 2024 | Sarah Couture ran in the simultaneous Elmwood—Transcona by-election, earning 1.25% of the vote. |
| September 16 2024 | Gregory Yablunovsky ran in the LaSalle—Émard—Verdun by-election, earning 0.49% of the vote. |
| June 24 2024 | Dennis Wilson ran in the Toronto—St. Paul's by-election, earning 0.64% of the vote. |
| March 4 2024 | Patricia Conlin ran as the PPC candidate in the Durham by-election, receiving 4% of the vote, compared to her 5.50% in the 2021 election. |
| 2023 | The People's Party of Canada, under Maxime Bernier's leadership, published a self-defence policy during his campaign for the Portage—Lisgar seat, proposing to legalize pepper spray for self-defence purposes by removing it from the list of prohibited weapons. |
| 2023 | The PPC ran candidates in federal by-elections in Winnipeg South Centre, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount, Portage—Lisgar, and Oxford. |
| July 24 2023 | Party leader Maxime Bernier ran in the Portage-Lisgar by-election, winning 17% of the vote but losing the election. |
| July 24 2023 | The PPC's 'Western Lieutenant' Kelly Lorencz ran in the Calgary Heritage by-election and lost. |
| 2022 | People's Party of Canada organized a rally in Waterloo, Ontario, featuring Maxime Bernier and independent MPP Randy Hillier to support the Freedom Convoy 2022's call to end COVID-19 mandates. |
| 2022 | The PPC candidate in the Mississauga—Lakeshore federal by-election received 1.2% of the vote. |
| 2021 | People's Party of Canada increased electoral performance in federal election, gaining 840,990 votes (4.9% of total), maintaining 6th place and remaining extra-parliamentary during a Liberal minority government. |
| 2021 | The PPC gained approximately 5% of the popular vote, surpassing the Green Party of Canada, though no candidates were elected and Bernier lost again in Beauce to the Conservatives. |
| 2021 | The People's Party of Canada (PPC) contested the federal election with Maxime Bernier running in his former riding of Beauce, campaigning against COVID-19 restrictions, lockdown measures, vaccine passports, and compulsory vaccinations. |
| 2020 | Maxime Bernier ran as a candidate in the Toronto Centre and York Centre by-elections, but was unsuccessful, receiving less than 3.6% of the popular vote in each riding. |
| February 24 2020 | Elections Canada deregistered 38 of the party's Electoral District Associations (EDAs) for failing to comply with reporting requirements, impacting their ability to accept contributions and issue tax receipts. |
| 2019 | After the 2019 federal election, the People's Party of Canada continued to develop its political presence. |
| October 2019 | In the Canadian federal election, Maxime Bernier lost his own seat, and no People's Party candidates were elected. The party received approximately 1.6% of the popular vote nationwide. |
| August 29 2019 | A former American white nationalist founding member is removed from the party after his past is revealed. |
| August 18 2019 | The party held a conference with approximately 500 party officials participating in various training workshops, including door knocking, media training, and debate preparation. |
| July 2019 | The entire People's Party of Canada board in Elmwood—Transcona resigned, citing concerns about racism, xenophobia, and the party's ideological direction. |
| June 1 2019 | The People's Party of Canada held their first party convention, as previously planned by Bernier. |
| April 2019 | Angelo Isidorou, a party executive and Vancouver Quadra district association president, resigned, criticizing the party's internal dynamics and alleging racism within the organization. |
| March 25 2019 | Maxime Bernier announced the party's online candidate search for the federal election, which would run until April 23, with candidate selection meetings planned between May 7 and 13. |
| February 25 2019 | Participated in by-elections in Burnaby South, York—Simcoe, and Outremont, receiving 10.9% of the vote in Burnaby South and 1.5% in the other two ridings. |
| January 19 2019 | The party was officially registered by Elections Canada after nominating candidates for multiple by-elections. |
| December 21 2018 | People's Party of Canada establishes Electoral District Associations (EDAs) in all 338 federal electoral districts. |
| November 11 2018 | The People's Party of Canada received its initial eligibility status from Elections Canada. |
| November 1 2018 | The party reveals it has over 30,000 founding members. |
| October 10 2018 | People's Party of Canada officially submits registration documents to Elections Canada. |
| September 2018 | Maxime Bernier forms the People's Party of Canada (PPC) after resigning from the Conservative Party of Canada, establishing a new federal political party positioned on the right to far-right of the political spectrum. |
| 2017 | Maxime Bernier resigns from the Conservative Party of Canada, citing the party as intellectually and morally corrupt and unable to be reformed. |
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