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On May 31, 1999, during the Ontario general election, then Freedom Party leader Lloyd Walker was a candidate in the televised candidate debate for the riding of London-Fanshawe. Other candidates included Frank Mazzilli (Ontario Progressive Conservative Party), Irene Mathyssen (Ontario NDP), Heidi Strasser (Green Party), and Peter Mancini (Ontario Liberal Party) Continue reading »
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On May 29, 1999, Freedom Party of Ontario held the second of two dinners that it had held in support of its candidates in the 1999 Ontario provincial election. After an introductory speech by Master of Ceremonies Robert Vaughan, Freedom Party of Ontario founder Robert Metz introduced Mary Lou Gutscher, founder of a party that gave its registered status to Freedom Party in 1984 (Gutscher also was one of the first members of Freedom Party). Thereafter, short speeches were given by some of Freedom Party’s candidates for the 1999 election. Following the candidate speeches, Robert Metz spoke both as the party President and as the candidate for London North Centre. Finally, then party Leader Lloyd Walker (London-Fanshawe) gave the dinner’s closing speech.
The speeches reveal a good number of interesting, historical, and sometimes humourous facts and occurrences. Want to know how Freedom Party got registered, or how it got its name? Want to to know what it was like to be a candidate when the party was just getting started? Want to hear the story about how Mikhail Gorbachev came to own a copy of Ayn Rand’s “Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal”? Want to find out how the press deliberately distorts and disparages Freedom Party candidates? Watch, listen, learn, and laugh a bit.
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On May 28, 1999, during the Ontario general election, Freedom Party of Ontario president Robert Metz was a candidate in the televised candidate debate for the riding of London North Centre. Other candidates included Andrew J. Jezierski (Family Coalition Party), Dianne Cunningham (Progressive Conservative Party), Jeff Culbert (Green Party), Roger Caranci (Liberal Party), and Marion Boyd (NDP).
Calls from viewers included: leadership ability, tuition hikes, a strong & mandatory Ontarians with Disabilities Act, cuts to health care (including womens’ shelters, hearing impaired, drug rehabilitation).
The moderator was Gord Harris, who concluded by asking each candidate to identify what is the single most important issue brought to each candidate’s attention by constituents, and what is the client’s proposal to deal with that issue. Continue reading »
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On May 25, 1999, CHRW 94.7 FM hosted an all-candidates debate for candidates in the riding of London North Centre. Freedom Party president Robert Metz was the party’s candidate in London North Centre. He was joined in the debate by candidates for the Family Coalition, Green, and NDP parties, and by the stand-in for the PC party candidate. The candidates are asked about taxation and post-secondary education funding. They are also permitted to ask one another questions, and Metz asks the PC and NDP candidates why they are committed to monopolies in health and education. The PC representative asks Metz about tax cuts and the creation of wealth.
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On May 18, 1999, CHRW 94.7 FM hosted an all-candidates debate for candidates in the riding of London North Centre. Freedom Party president Robert Metz was the party’s candidate in London North Centre. He was joined in the debate by candidates for the Liberal, PC and NDP parties. The candidates are asked about the environment, tax cuts, dwindling business activity in downtown London, education.
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On May 13, 1999, Freedom Party leader Paul McKeever, Paul William Roberts (author), Anwar Syed (Canadian Muslim Civil Liberties Association) and Rukhsana Khan (author), were panelists on Michael Coren Live! (CTS). The topic of discussion: Salman Rushdie (author of “The Satanic Verses”) and the fatwa issued on February 14, 1989 by Iran’s then “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling upon all Muslims to kill Rushdie for having insulted the Prophet Mohammed in “The Satanic Verses”, a book that Khomeini said was “blasphemous against Islam”. Continue reading »