Max Bernier is a blogger

The YouTube pitch is amateurish, to the point of embarrassment – in either official language.

There’s Bernier behind his desk, waving his arms around and banging his fist spinning us huge platitudes, telling us how great he is, using simple words as if we were school-children.

Somebody must have told him – Keep it simple, Max. In his case, it wasn’t difficult.

The Bernier YouTube item promises a lot, but the blog doesn’t deliver. Disappointingly boring.

Nothing about what we really want to know –-- who was Julie Couillard working for, what about that land scam in Quebec City, or her recent legal suit against Kevlar real estate, or maybe a word about her other kind of suit, which she sold recently for a good cause.

None of that is in the blog. Too bad.

Bernier is the only Conservative MP blogging on the Hill. Harper doesn’t like his MPs blogging.

The last one was Garth Turner, but he said things the boss didn’t like, and he was out on his ear. Harper saw to it that Turner didn’t make it back into Parliament.

Nothing to worry about here, Mister Harper. Not a word about you. This blog is all about Max, Max, Max, nothing but Max, and about the Beauce of course.

Yes, local Bernier golf tournaments. Yawn. And boring repeats of his political speeches.

Bernier likes to brag. A blog is a good place to do it.

For instance, he finds the need to let us know that at the prestigious Hautes Études Commerciales school he told them: “The economic crisis which we are going through in Canada, has its origin in the U.S.”

Wow! That bit of news must have knocked their socks off at the HEC.

Bernier’s YouTube format is simple. He asks the questions and answers them himself, as in: “You are probably asking yourself why Maxime Bernier, simple MP, is launching a blog.”

Actually we weren’t Max, but you’re right about the “simple MP” part.

So is Bernier cranking up for a cabinet job again?

Hardly, not with Harper still in charge.

But he plans to win his riding again. He is immensely popular in the Beauce.

And if the other Quebec Conservatives do as badly in the next election as the polls seem to indicate right now, and Harper manages to hang on, Bernier could end up as the only Conservative elected in Quebec.

So guess who’s gets back into cabinet? “Quick Julie, we’re going to the Governor-General’s again.”

Or, “Load up the Jos Louis, we’re going to Afghanistan.”

Bernier could make his blog interesting.

He could tell us why he sided with Brian Mulroney against Harper in the feud ripping apart Quebec Conservatives.

Did Bernier really say “Mulroney is still part of the Conservative family” after Harper’s office said Mulroney is no longer a Conservative?

And why is there no photo of Stephen Harper on your home page, Mister Bernier?

Does the boss know?