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A Maxime Bernier rally should begin with the national anthem, and no one’s shy about singing the original lyrics.

They enunciate them clearly: “In all our sons command.”

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Some hold their hands on their hearts. One man raises his in the air. Lionel Fauchon dutiful removes his People’s Party of Canada ball cap and stands at attention, his pants supported by a pair of camouflage suspenders. It’s Tuesday just after noon, and more than 50 supporters are united in song at the steps of the Saskatchewan Legislative Building.

Fauchon voted for Andrew Scheer to become Conservative leader two years ago. But he was put off by how he buckled to “13,000 French Quebecer cow milkers” over supply management.

He wants principle, not pragmatism. And his principles are decidedly to the right.

“Immigration’s a big one. They’re going to weed out the bad Islam,” he says of the PPC, later clarifying that he was referring to ISIS and “the extremists.”