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In this recording, Freedom Party executive officer Robert Vaughan calls Jim Chapman, host of London radio CJBK’s “Talk of the Town” program. In his capacity of board of education trustee in London, Vaughan explains that the Chair of Board published a “Just the Facts” brochure which cost the board $7,600.00 to produce and which erroneously stated that it had the support of the entire board of trustees. He calls for a better and more accountable process.
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In this recording, Freedom Party president Robert Metz calls Jim Chapman, host of London radio CJBK’s “Talk of the Town” program, to discuss the effects of patriating the Canadian constitution and why he is in favour the monarchy.
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In 1996, Freedom Party executive officer Robert Vaughan was a school board trustee in London, Ontario. In this recording, Vaughan calls the Host of AM 980’s “Hot Talk” program, Gord Harris, to discuss a report that would make physical education mandatory for high-school students.
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On October 24 and 25, 1996, Ontario’s Divisional Court heard the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s appeal of the August 24, 1994 decision of Board of Inquiry Chair Ajit S. John in the matter of Chippheng Hom and Ontario Human Rights Commission v. Elijah Elieff and Elieff Investments Ltd. (Decision # 94-022). The Board of Inquiry Chair had found the Elieff had not violated Hom’s rights to equal treatment under Ontario’s Human Rights Code. Jim Chapman, host of CJBK 1290 AM (London, Ontario’s) Talk of the Town Program had apparently mentioned a report in the London Free Press from that day concerning the Divisional Court’s hearings the previous day. Freedom Party of Ontario president Robert Metz had represented Elieff and his company at the Board of Inquiry hearing, and he called in to discuss the appeal.
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On May 31, 1995, Rogers Community TV (channel 13) in London, Ontario, and Radio 98 (AM980, London, Ontario) co-hosted a one-hour televised/radio-broadcasted candidates debate for candidates in the riding of London Centre, including Freedom Party candidate Lloyd Walker, and the PC, NDP, and Liberal candidates.
[NOTE: The first 4.5 minutes of this recording contain hiss]
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On May 31, 1995, Rogers Community TV (channel 13) in London, Ontario, and Radio 98 (AM980, London, Ontario) co-hosted a one-hour televised/radio-broadcasted candidates debate for candidates in the riding of London North, including Freedom Party candidate and leader Jack Plant, and the PC, NDP, and Liberal candidates.
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On May 30, 1995, Rogers Community TV (channel 13) in London, Ontario, and Radio 98 (AM980, London, Ontario) co-hosted a one-hour televised/radio-broadcasted candidates debate for candidates in the riding of Middlesex, including Freedom Party candidate Barry Malcolm, and the PC, NDP, and Liberal candidates.
NOTE: this recording is captured from a 1 hour audio cassette (30 minutes per side). The first 20 seconds or so of the recording are of low volume/quality. Also, there is a temporary loss of audio at the 30 min: 50 sec. point at which the tape, when used to record the broadcast, was flipped over for the purposes of recording the second half-hour of the one-hour program.
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On November 16, 1992, Freedom Party president Robert Metz gave a presentation to a group of students of Objectivism (Ayn Rand’s philosophy) at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Ontario. The topic: The relationship between political philosophy and political action.”
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Two days before voting day in the Ontario election of 1990, Robert Metz – then leader of Freedom Party of Ontario – was the guest of the London, Ontario talk radio program Talkback (with host Anne Hutchison). With the exception of a call about land deals in London, most callers were interested in talking about health care. One caller recalled affordably buying health care insurance for $30 per month for a family of six in the years prior to 1969, when Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government banned private health care and instituted Ontario’s socialized health care monopoly. Another, defending Ontario’s socialist health care monopoly, called to say that each individual is his “brother’s keeper”. Another insinuated, falsely, that Metz and Freedom Party wanted a system akin to that in the United States. Openly opposing “univeral” health care, Metz’s reply was that the issues of health care and poverty are separate issues, and that Ontario residents should have a choice when it comes to paying for health care or helping the poor.
Most commercials have been removed from this recording, but election commercials by the Progressive Conservative Party, the Ontario Medical Association, a union, and the New Democratic Party have not been removed from the recording. Pay particular attention to the fact that, even in 1990, even Ontario’s doctors were saying that the Ontario health care system was leaving people suffering – even dying – in the health care queues and under-service that necessarily has constantly plagued the Ontario government’s rationed (i.e., socialist) health care monopoly since its inception in 1969.
NOTE: This recording was reconstructed from two cassette recordings of the same broadcast. One of the cassettes (captured as tape-2012-060.1990-09-04.talk-back.1990-election.metz-as-guest.same-episode-as-tape-2012-013-but-better-recording.mp3) included no commercials (they had been skipped during the recording process), but the other (captured as tape-2012.013.mp3) had a couple of election commercials that originally made onto a cassette tape. During most of tape-2012.013.mp3, music can be heard playing as if in the background, and the signal tails off dramatically toward the end. However, the political commercials from that recording have been added to the other recording to create this reconstructed recording for archival purposes.
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As the Ontario general election of September 6, 1990 approached CBC’s “Radio Noon” program interviewed then Freedom Party leader, Robert Metz.
NOTE: the quality of the recording, on the original cassette tape, was quite poor and hissy. An effort has been made to remove hiss and improve the audibility of the voices. If not a sonically-pleasing recording, the words spoken are nonetheless discernable, and the recording serves its essential purpose as an historical record.