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Maxime Bernier: Cabinet Minister and Bernier Shares

maxime bernier: Kellie Leitch is shown at a debate in Saskatoon in Nov. 2016, according to Huffington Post Canada. Photo Liam Richards/CP Quebec rival Maxime Bernier, meanwhile, is adding a high-powered endorsement to his list of supporters former cabinet minister Tony Clement, who will also serve as a special adviser. Ontario MP Kellie Leitch, who has already urged screening immigrants for what she calls anti-Canadian values, is now proposing changes to the law that would allow people to carry pepper spray for self-defence. Clement says Bernier shares his values and is the right choice to lead the party and the country. She says legalizing it for self-defence would strengthen the rights of women to protect themselves. She says it would strengthen rights of women Leitch, whose edgy campaign has been trawling the party right wing, says the law isnt clear on pepper spray it illegal to possess, but its use in self-defence doesnt necessarily lead to charges. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.