"The next Conservative leader will need to craft a social policy that accepts same-sex marriage and a woman’s right to an abortion – because this is the law – while promoting stable families and the right of parents to raise their children as they think best."

Bernier is on record as saying he is willing to have a debate on these issues and hold a free vote.  A vote that the social conservatives would lose because they don't represent the majority.  That is the ultimate in democracy and par for the course for libertarians.