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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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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.
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On June 22, 1990, an Ontario High Court trial judge released his decision in the case of Peel (Regional Municipality) v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Co. of Canada Ltd.. The court declared Ontario’s Retail Business Holidays Act (which banned most retail sales on Sundays) unconstitutional because, it found, the Act was contrary to the religious freedom provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The decision was overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal on March 20, 1991 but, in the meantime, many retail stores began opening their doors on Sundays.
FM 96’s John Boles reported on what was expected to happen when London stores opened on Sunday, July 8, 1990. Ron Logan of the Patton’s Place furniture store (a long time opponent of Sunday Shopping) and Robert Metz (President of Freedom Party of Ontario, which long advocated choice) were interviewed.
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At some point in 1989, “Talk Back” host Ann Hutchison invited Liz Rowley (leader of the Communist Party of Canada) to be her guest for one hour to talk about communism and her party. Rowley fielded calls from listeners, including Freedom Party member Jack Plant. Years later, Jack would become leader of Freedom Party of Ontario.
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Beginning June 7, 1988, Freedom Party of Ontario Action Director Marc Emery spent 4 days in jail for having refused to pay a $500 fine that was imposed upon him by a court for having opened his bookstore on a Sunday, contrary to provincial law. He had opened his store as an act of civil disobedience, in conjunction with his efforts as Action Director of the Freedom Party. In the face of organized proponents of the ban on Sunday shopping – including organized religion, organized business interests, and all three of the political parties holding seats in the Ontario Legislature – Emery was the front man for Freedom Party of Ontario’s lonely, but ultimately successful, campaign against the Sunday shopping ban.
In this radio broadcast, “Radio Docs” host Mario Circelli mentions that Emery has just been released from jail to join him on the program (that makes June 10, 1988 the most likely date of the broadcast; Freedom Party president Robert Metz recalls having brought money to the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre in the early morning hours of a June Friday to pay the money [collected from supporters as “Pennies for Principles”] necessary to secure Emery’s release). Arguably, the fact that Emery has just emerged from jail can be heard not so much in Emery’s voice, as in his words on the program. This arguably is Emery in his finest form.
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On an unknown date in 1988, Michael Schwab (Canadian Vegans for Animal Rights) and Dr. Ron Calhoun (Partners in Research) were the guests of Radio 98’s “Talkback” program, with host Ann Hutchison. Although most of their discussion was not recorded by Freedom Party, they apparently were two sides of a debate over the propriety of using animals as test subjects in scientific research. Freedom Party president Robert Metz called in about Michael Schwab’s position on “animal rights”.
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In March of 1988, the U.S. border patrol began seizing cars, boats, other vehicles, and their contents, in situations where illegal drugs were found in the vehicle. On her “Talkback” program (Radio 98), host Ann Hutchison wanted to know whether people thought asset seizure to be “fair”. Both Freedom Party president Robert Metz and Freedom Party Action Director Marc Emery called in to share their thoughts on the matter.