People's Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier, made a campaign stop in Langley on Sunday, April 13, appearing with Abbotsford-South Langley candidate Aeriol Alderking at the Glass House Estate Winery.
About 50 people turned out for the first appearance by a federal party leader in the Langley area during the current election.
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Bernier was applauded as he called for tougher immigration laws.
"We need to have a pause, a moratorium on immigration," Bernier said
"We have too many people coming here. They don't integrate into our society."
He predicted the party would increase its percentage of the vote this election, even electing it's first member to parliament.
"Our time will come" he said.
Bernier warned growing dissatisfaction with the federal government was contributing to separatist sentiment in both Quebec and Alberta, predicting there could be another referendum on separation in the French speaking province by 2026.
Alderking, a long-time Abbotsford resident who described Bernier as the "answer to our problems" previously ran for the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) in Abbotsford in 2019, finishing last, with 270 votes and 0.6 per cent of ballots, just behind PPC candidate Locke Duncan who was second-last with 985 votes or two per cent.
She said she was invited to run as a PPC candidate and did so because its stand on abortion was the same as the CHP, which describes itself as Canada's only 100 per cent pro-life political party.
As a PPC candidate, Alderking was rated "perfect" by the pro-life Campaign Life Coalition for her answers to CLC's 2025 federal election questionnaire, including saying "no" when asked "are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion?"
Her online party bio describes her as a single mother who ran her own business, while raising her son and daughter.
PPC party is currently polling sixth among major parties in Canada, behind the Green Party and Bloc Quebecois.
The right-wing party was founded by Bernier in 2018 shortly after he quit the Conservative Party after serving as a senior minister in the Stephen Harper government.
In the 2021 federal election, the party received 4.9 per cent of the total national vote, but did not see any of its candidates elected as MPs.
The party is running candidates in all three Langley-area ridings.
