Radio – Page 17 – Freedom Party of Ontario Archive

Robert Metz on the 1988 provincial budget and the 1% increase of Ontario’s retail sales tax

Apr 211988

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
On April 20, 1988, Ontario finance minister Robert F. Nixon tabled the Liberal government 1988 provincial budget. It proposed, in part, that Ontario’s Retail Sales Tax be increased by one percentage point: up to 8% from 7%. The tax increase was, therefore, one of the subjects of discussion on Radio 98’s “Talkback” program, in the days that followed. Freedom Party president Robert Metz called-in, and explained that taxes are the secondary issue, and that the main issue is getting spending under control. He speaks, especially, to Ontario’s two most expensive programs: health care and education.

Complete Recording

Marc Emery, Dave Southen, Lloyd Walker, and Robert Metz, on the Sunday shopping ban

All, FPO Call-in

Jan 221988

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
It’s the beginning of 1988. The Retail Business Holiday’s Act – introduced by Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives in 1975 – bans the opening of most retail stores on Sundays (although the Ontario PCs deny the reason, the fact is that the Lord’s Day Alliance – an alliance of 4 Christian religions – asked Premier Bill Davis, in 1975, to keep the Lord’s Day holy by imposing a ban). However, Canada’s Supreme court has already struck down (in 1985) a federal Lord’s Day Act that did the same thing, pursuant to the then-new Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Although the Ontario legislation has survived (in 1986) a similar constitutional challenge, there is growing public support for ending the ban on Sunday Shopping (in no small part due to Freedom Party’s ongoing campaign to end the ban on Sunday shopping). Feeling the political head, Ontario’s governing Liberals have announced that they will be introducing legislation in 1988 that will give Ontario’s municipalities the power to decide whether or not Sunday shopping is banned within their respective municipalities.

And so, as the tabling of new Sunday shopping legislation approaches, on January 22, 1988, AM 980 (London)’s Talkback program asked callers to call in their views on the Sunday shopping ban. Four Freedom Party personalities called in: Freedom Party Action Director Marc Emery, FPO supporter Dave Southen, FPO Vice-President Lloyd Walker, and FPO president Robert Metz. You can hear the whole program, or listen to their respective calls, below.

Marc Emery Excerpt

Dave Southen Excerpt

Lloyd Walker Excerpt

Robert Metz Excerpt

Complete Recording

1987 Ontario provincial general election news reports (various)

All, FPO Featured

Sep 091987

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
Various London (Ontario) based news bites leading up to Ontario’s general election of 1987.

Complete Recording

Election 1987: Bill Paul interviews Freedom Party of Ontario’s Robert Metz

All, FPO Featured

Sep 031987

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

On September 3, 1987, during the Ontario general provincial election of that year, Freedom Party president Robert Metz was interviewed by Bill Paul. Topics include: Sunday shopping; strikes; Freedom Party; Garbage strike; property rights; Marc Emery; Ayn Rand; BIAs; censorship; FP media coverage; London Chamber of Commerce debate; free trade.

1987 Ontario Election: CFRB’s Andy Barrie interviews Robert Metz

All, FPO Featured

Sep 011987

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:

During the 1987 Ontario provincial general election, CFRB host Andy Barrie interviewed Freedom Party president Robert Metz and Judy Johnson (candidate in Etobicoke West), a representative of the then newly-formed Family Coalition Party.

Whole recording (commercials and news removed)

CBC interviews Robert Metz about forthcoming Paul Magder dinner

All, FPO Featured

Apr 201987

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
On Tuesday, April 21, 1987, Freedom Party hosted a dinner in support of Toronto furrier Paul Magder. Magder was continually charged under Ontario’s Retail Business Holiday’s Act for opening his fur store on Sundays. On April 20, 1987, CBC’s Radio Noon interviewed Freedom Party president Robert Metz about the party’s dinner, and about the party’s nature.

Whole Recording

CBC interviews Marc Emery over comments about Sunday shopping and organized religions

All, FPO Featured

Feb 261987

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
On February 25, 1987, Freedom Party’s Marc Emery (Action Director) and Robert Metz (President) made separate submissions to the London meeting of a Select Committee on Sunday Shopping. Emery’s submission in part blamed organized religions for the Retail Business Holidays Act‘s ban on opening a retain store on Sundays. That statement got him national attention, including this interview on CBC radio.

Whole Recording

Marc Emery on ending the “war on drugs” (1986)

All, FPO Call-in

Sep 161986

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
On September 14, 1986, U.S. President Ronald Reagan called upon Americans, in a televised address, to support him in an “all out war” on illegal drugs. Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney thereafter deviated from a prepared speech to declare that “drug abuse has become an epidemic that undermines our economic as well as our social fabric”. So, on September 16, 1986, AM 980’s Wayne McLean asked listeners to call in to his show to tell him whether or not they believe that there is an illegal drug epidemic. Freedom Party Action Director Marc Emery called in with his views.

Marc Emery Excerpt

Complete Recording

Robert Metz and Gord Mood on the NDP’s proposed ban on alcohol advertising

All, FPO Call-in

Sep 091986

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
On September 2, 1986, Ontario’s provincial Advisory Committee on Liquor Regulations – which had been put together by Liberal Consumer Minister Monte Kwinter to consider revisions to Ontario’s drinking laws – commenced hearings. On the first day of the hearings, Ontario’s socialist New Democratic Party (NDP) issued a policy statement calling for a ban on the advertising of beer, wine, and liquor both on TV and radio, and in printed media. The NDP said that, after unemployment, excessive alcohol consumption was “the number one social problem in society”.

As a result of the NDP’s pro-censorship proposal, on September 9, 1986, Wayne McLean, host of AM980’s Hotline talk show asked his listeners: Should there be a ban on alcohol advertising, and does advertising cause an increase in consumption?

Freedom Party president Robert Metz called in, followed – during a rapid-fire poll – by Freedom Party member Gord Mood. Both opposed censorship, and advocated individual freedom.

Robert Metz Excerpt

Gord Mood Excerpt

Complete Episode

Gord Mood and Robert Metz on immigration and social programs

All, FPO Call-in

Sep 011986

AUDIO – DESCRIPTION:
These two recordings were found, back to back, on a cassette tape, sandwiched between a recording dated August 13, 1986, and another dated September 8, 1986. Only the two excerpts were recorded, so we cannot know the specific topic being discussed, but it appears the question under discussion was whether Canada should be open to immigration. Freedom Party member Gord Mood and Freedom Party president Robert Metz each given an emphatic “yes”, and point out that a lot of the racism and anti-immigration sentiment is actually caused by bad government policy in respect of social programs.

Gord Mood Excerpt

Robert Metz Excerpt

Older Entries Newer Entries