Bernier raises $30K in just one day after being fired as Conservative critic
OTTAWA — Days after Conservative MP Maxime Bernier was turfed from his party’s shadow cabinet for continuing to promote his anti-supply management position, supporters are demanding he be reinstated — and using money to show they mean business.
In an email to supporters Friday morning, Bernier said he was “flabbergasted” that he managed to raise $30,000 in just 24 hours to help pay off his debts from the 2017 leadership campaign.
The fundraising haul came in after he emailed supporters Thursday morning with the subject heading “are you still with me?” — one day after he was ousted from his job as the party’s innovation critic for posting to his personal website a chapter about supply management from his forthcoming book.
Bernier says the $30,000 that came in was “several times” the campaign’s previous 24-hour record.