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
