To be clear, I have concerns about both Scheer and Bernier, but in the end the choice will be between these two.

This is from an article I posted here yesterday:

The Social Economy: Ties to the Peoples Party of Canada

During the summer of 2005, the corporations involved with social economy initiatives began negotiating contracts for their activities in the event the Paul Martin Liberal government fell to the Conservatives (ref). In January 2006, the Conservative government under Stephen Harper came into power. At that time the HRSDC (Human Resources and Social Development Canada) and SSHRC (Social Studies Humanities Research Council) were governed under the Minister of Industry, who was Maxime Berrnier. On March 2006, he published a review of the SSHRC praising the merits of the social economy”(ref).

However, by September of 2006, Harper had defunded the social economy programs and was on record for his opposition to these programs. (ref)(ref)

Despite the defunding, Johanne Mennie, then Deputy Director of HRSDC & SSHRC, and the current Director of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), attended several meetings with the George Soros-funded Tides Foundation of Canada that directly called for government policy interventions to implement the social economy program. One such meeting was on October 19-20, 2006 and was called “Scaling Up the Canadian Social Finance Sector.” (ref)

https://shawnpaulmelville.com/2019/02/18/soros-tides-foundation-and-the-ppc