Small crowd at Peoples Party rally

Roger Varley, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

A rally held by the People's Party of Canada on a farm southwest of Uxbridge drew about 100 people on Saturday.

Hosted by PPC leader Maxime Bernier, the event featured several speakers, including Bernier and York-Durham PPC candidate Patricia Conlin. There was also free food and signs reading "They Lied" and "End This Nightmare."

Conlin spoke first, and told the small crowd Canada is in its worst health crisis and facing "financial catastrophe." She claimed the federal government is taking away citizens' parental rights and freedom of speech, adding that politicians are "unwilling to tell the truth."

Conlin also said the government is "taxing the air we breathe," school children are being indoctrinated, the government is pushing 15-minute cities and "they want us to eat bugs, not beef."

Former PPC candidate Greg Wycliffe told the gathering that Canada is seeing "unsustainable mass immigration," but stated that the PPC is "not racist." He also said that Canadians face jail time if they criticize the federal government. He then went on to criticize Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as "scum and a tyrant."

Criticism was also launched at Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and Jagmeet Singh of the NDP.