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OTTAWA — It’s time for maverick Conservative MP Maxime Bernier to make up his mind about whether he wants to see his own party or the rival Liberals form the next government, caucus colleague Michelle Rempel said Wednesday.

Rempel, her party’s immigration critic and herself an often outspoken voice around the Tory caucus table, was responding to a fresh batch of tweets from the Quebec MP calling on Canada to admit fewer immigrants and blasting his fellow Tories for telling him to “shut up.”

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“Max has never come to talk to me about immigration,” Rempel told a news conference.

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“I would also say my colleague has a choice to make — does he want Andrew Scheer to win or does he want Justin Trudeau to win?”

In his most recent tweets, which surfaced Tuesday and Wednesday, Bernier said he believes immigration in Canada is at “too high a level” — one where it “ceases to be a tool to economically benefit Canadians and it turns instead into a burden.”

“It becomes essentially a big-government policy of social engineering for ideological and electoral purposes,” he wrote.

Bernier has spent the last week and a half using his Twitter account to accuse the Trudeau government of promoting too much diversity and “extreme multiculturalism,” and beating back anyone calling his approach to the issue into question.

He was at it again upon learning Rempel had scheduled a news conference for Wednesday to unveil the party’s policy platform on immigration.