Back in 2008, Maxime Bernier — as Stephen Harper’s foreign affairs minister — went to Davos, Switzerland and set foot on the grounds of the World Economic Forum’s annual conference. No one could have imagined at the time that he would one day be attacked publicly by his former party for being there.
Fifteen years after his trip to Davos, Bernier is running under the banner of his own party — the People’s Party of Canada — in a byelection in the Manitoba riding of Portage-Lisgar. And the Conservative candidate has made the World Economic Forum a ballot box issue.
“Unlike Maxime Bernier, I will never attend the World
