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People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier speaks with supporters during a meet-and-greet event at the Victoria Inn on Friday afternoon. The event marks the first time the PPC leader has visited Brandon since September 2021, when he organized a rally at Dinsdale Park to publicly fight back against COVID-19 mandates across the country. While Bernier repeated some of that same rhetoric during Friday’s meet-and-greet, he also used the event to recruit PPC candidates to run in a future federal election. Bernier told the Sun his party has 100 candidates ready to go and is hoping to find another 200 by the end of the year. (Kyle Darbyson/The Brandon Sun)