Ladies and Gentlemen of Ontario:
In the coming days, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party will attempt to grab headlines with a phony plan to tackle the budget deficit by reforming health care delivery. It will be a phony plan, because it will propose no reduction in health care spending and so will have no impact on budget expenses. Continue reading »
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On September 8, 2012, Freedom Party of Ontario president Robert Metz was a panelist on “Inside World Report” with host Christine Williams. In this episode, the panelists discuss the elections in the Province of Quebec and in the United States. Continue reading »
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On August 31, 2012, Freedom Party of Ontario member Ted Harlson and Caledonia resident Stuart Laughton were guests of Sun News Network’s “The Arena” with host Michael Coren. In this episode, Ted and Stuart discuss having been arrested (but not charged with anything) in Caledonia, Ontario, during a peaceful demonstration there. Each was arrested and jailed for a several hours out of a fear that native secessionists in Caledonia would respond to the peaceful demonstration with violence. Continue reading »
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On August 30, 2012, Freedom Party of Ontario released a web-only video commercial promoting its 2012 Opposition budget (which had been released in March of 2012), and the election of its 2012 by-election candidates David Driver and Erin Goodwin. Continue reading »
Ladies and Gentlemen of Ontario:
We are all being distracted. We are being manipulated. We are not being told what we need to know.
Ontario currently has by-elections underway in Vaughan and Kitchener-Waterloo that will determine whether or not Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals gain a majority government. But that’s not the major issue.
The major issue is that Ontario is facing a budget crisis, soaring debt, and a plummeting credit rating that will devastate Ontario’s economy and impoverish everyone living in the province. Yet neither Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals, nor Tim Hudak’s Progressive Conservatives have plan to cut spending, balance the budget, and end the crisis. Continue reading »
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On August 16, 2012, Freedom Party of Ontario leader Paul McKeever was a guest of Sun News Network’s “The Arena” with host Michael Coren. In this episode, Michael and Paul discuss a number of invasive and silly by-laws that local governments are passing. More generally, they discuss the question: how do we end up with such nanny state by-laws? Continue reading »
Freedom Party of Ontario has nominated Freedom Party candidate David Driver in the riding of Kitchener-Waterloo, and Freedom Party candidate Erin Goodwin in the riding of Vaughan, for the Thursday, September 6, 2012 by-elections that will occur in those two ridings (voting information is available from Elections Ontario). “Freedom Party is proud to endorse the candidacy of these exceptional, outgoing individuals” says Freedom Party leader Paul McKeever. “Voters looking for a fiscally-responsible alternative to the largely-indistinguishable Liberals, NDPs, and PCs have a golden opportunity to start Ontario’s recovery by electing David Driver and Erin Goodwin in their respective ridings”. Continue reading »
August 13, 2012 Toronto – On Sunday (August 12, 2012), Ontario Progressive Conservative Finance Critic Peter Shurman lashed out at Freedom Party leader Paul McKeever on FaceBook.com over comments made by McKeever while a guest of Jim Richards’ Showgram on Toronto news-talk radio station CFRB 1010 AM (August 9, 2012 – click here to hear the audio). Now, under fire even in the conservative media for his party’s waffling on the issue of wine and beer in corner stores, Shurman expressed anger with McKeever, whose party is on the record campaigning unequivocally for allowing wine and beer to be sold in corner stores. Continue reading »
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On the Jim Richards Showgram, NewsTalk 1010 AM, Toronto. Paul McKeever, leader, Freedom Party of Ontario, discussed Freedom Party of Ontario’s promise to open up the LCBO and The Beer Store to competition from other stores (such as grocery stores and 24 hour convenience stores), so that Ontario has wider selection, lower prices, and greater shopping convenience.
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June 2, 2012 Toronto – Tomorrow, Sunday June 3, 2012, marks the twentieth anniversary of the defeat of the 85 year ban on Sunday shopping. Twenty years ago tomorrow, then-Premier Bob Rae announced that the ban was being repealed, effective immediately. Continue reading »