March 29, 2011 – Radio Interview: Freedom Party leader Paul McKeever was a guest of the John Oakley Show (AM 640 Toronto). Oakley’s panel discussed a proposal to open Toronto’s first Africentric secondary school at Oakwood Collegiate Institute. Click here to listen.
“The London-based Freedom Party of Ontario today announced that, in the October 2011 provincial election, party leader Paul McKeever will run in the riding of Elgin-Middlesex-London. Freedom Party is the first registered political party to nominate a candidate for the riding…” Click here to read the full media release.
March 10, 2011 – Freedom Party today released its 2011 election plank on Restoring Fair Auto Insurance. It also released its corresponding pre-election video ad. Continue reading »
“As we drive to work this morning, many of us are wondering how we are going to pay our auto insurance bills. The evidence from Ontario and other jurisdictions is now clear: the no-fault system Ontario adopted in 1990 leads to skyrocketing premiums, and dwindling benefits. A 2011 election plank released today by Freedom Party of Ontario says a Freedom government would follow the lead of over a dozen other North American jurisdictions by ending Ontario’s failed experiment with no-fault auto insurance. A Freedom government would restore the pre-1990 full-tort system, under which an accident causes only the at-fault driver to suffer increased premiums…” Click here to read the full media release.
March 2, 2011 – Paul McKeever interviewed by Andy Oudman, host of AM 1290’s (CJBK, London) London Today. The topic: skyrocketing gasoline prices and Freedom Party’s promise to Eliminate Ontario’s Gasoline Tax. To listen to the interview, click here.
March 2, 2011 – Freedom Party today released its 2011 election plank on Eliminating Ontario’s Gasoline Tax. It also released its corresponding pre-election video ad. Continue reading »
“On July 1, 2010, Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty’s introduction of the H.S.T. translated into a new 8% provincial tax on gasoline sales. The new tax taxes not only the actual price of the fuel, but also the 14.7 cents/liter Ontario gasoline tax. A 2011 election plank released today by Freedom Party of Ontario calls for the elimination of the old 14.7 cents/litre gasoline tax…” Click here to read the full media release.
A Freedom Party of Ontario promotional flyer used by the party for years. The earliest version probably dates to 2004. This one could not have been produced before February of 2011, given the photograph of Paul McKeever (a freeze-frame from a TVO interview conducted in February of 2011). Continue reading »
February 21, 2011 – Freedom Party today released its 2011 election plank on Cancelling the 2012 Ban on Incandescent Light Bulbs. It also released its corresponding pre-election video ad. Continue reading »
“In April of 2007, Ontario’s Liberal McGuinty government vowed to ban incandescent light bulbs in 2012. The Progressive Conservatives wanted the ban to take place immediately, in 2007. A 2011 election plank issued today by Freedom Party of Ontario says surplus energy makes the 2012 ban unnecessary, and proposes that the ban be cancelled…” Click here to read the full media release.