PPC leader Maxime Bernier visits Terrace during Mad Max summer tour.
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Bernier held a series of meet-and-greets throughout the city and also took part in a ceremony at the Highway of Tears totem pole with two residential school survivors. (Source: Steve Ross/CFTK).
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PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. People’s Party of Canada (PPC) leader Maxime Bernier is currently embarking on his “Mad Max” summer tour of Canada, and yesterday he travelled up north to visit Terrace. The former conservative cabinet minister held a series of meet-and-greets throughout the city, starting at Terrace Timber Mart on Keith Avenue. Alongside him was Jody Craven, the PPC candidate for the Skeena-Bulkley Valley.
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