Calling for an end to $40-billion in social and health transfers to the provinces, Maxime Bernier is criticizing his own government's policies in areas of provincial jurisdiction and laying another plank in his platform for a future Conservative leadership bid.

The Conservative MP is planning to use a luncheon speech at Toronto's Albany Club on Wednesday to further his credentials as a fiscal conservative who would revolutionize Ottawa and oversee a radically smaller federal apparatus.

Read the entire Globe and Mail article here.