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MEDIA RELEASE: Revenue-neutral Ontario Budget Tweak Shaves 10% Off Pump Price of Gasoline

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Apr 042012
 

Freedom Party of Ontario

– MEDIA RELEASE –

For Immediate Release

Revenue-Neutral Ontario Budget Tweak Will Shave
10% Off of Price of Gasoline

April 4, 2012 Toronto – With today’s gasoline prices in the range of $1.40/litre, Freedom Party leader Paul McKeever is encouraging Members of the Ontario Legislature to make a revenue-neutral tax tweak that would shave $8.46 off of the price of a 60 litre tank of gasoline. The full particulars are set out in Freedom Party of Ontario’s 2012 Opposition Budget (available here). However, one of the budget proposals in the Freedom budget is that Ontario’s small-revenue consumption taxes be eliminated, and that the revenue from those taxes be completely recouped by raising the HST rate by 2.4 points to 15.4%. A calculation demonstrating the effect of that proposal on the price of gasoline today is set out below. Continue reading »

The Reds’ Rocket, Tim Hudak, and Other Peoples’ Money

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Feb 092012
 

Paul McKeever’s response, today, to a Toronto Sun report that Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader, Tim Hudak, wants the province to plough ahead with an $8.4B expansion of Toronto’s subway system:

Mr. Hudak (paraphrased): “It’s only money. Other peoples’ money. The government should take $8.4B from those who earn it, and build an underground railway owned by the government. That way, the government can continue to undercharge riders, and run the railway constantly into the red. But don’t worry, we can go back to the earners, year after year, and loot them a bit more so that we can pay the ongoing costs of the new rail line. Don’t forget: voters want this…especially the ones who will ride the line daily, paying only a fraction of the freight.” Continue reading »

Auditor General’s report: LCBO colludes with suppliers to overcharge purchasers

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Dec 052011
 

updates-blog-entryThrough a perverse “fixed markup system”, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario increases its revenues by asking liquor producers to charge the LCBO more. So writes Ontario’s Auditor General in his annual report, released today (see section 3.08, beginning at page 186).

According to the AG, when the LCBO decides to stock a new product, it puts out a “needs letter” to suppliers. For each type of product, the needs letter tells suppliers the range of prices at which the LCBO would like to sell the product. That price is not based upon supply and demand. It is based on pure whim (which might explain, at least in part, why the Lagavulin I used to be able to buy for forty some odd dollars now costs well over $100 per bottle, only a few years later). Don’t stop reading: it gets worse. Much worse. Continue reading »

Open Letter to Dalton McGuinty re: TDSB Africentric Secondary School Plan

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Nov 152011
 

DELIVERED VIA FAX and e-MAIL

November 15, 2011

Dalton McGuinty, Premier
Legislative Building
Queen’s Park
Toronto ON M7A 1A1

Dear Premier:

Re: Toronto District School Board Plan for Africentric Secondary School

On January 25, 2008, I wrote to you asking that you intervene to deny public school boards the power to create race-focused schools. At the time, the issue was the opening by the Toronto District School Board (“TDSB”) of an “Africentric” elementary school. Although you condemned the idea of the school, you refused to make any legislative or regulatory amendments to deny public school boards the power to open up alternative race-focused schools. Facing opposition neither from your government nor from the opposition parties in the Legislature, the Africentric elementary school opened. Continue reading »

Congratulations to Tim Hodges

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Nov 142011
 

updates-blog-entryDear Freedom Party Members and Supporters:

Re: Congratulations to Tim Hodges

At the November 13, 2011 meeting of the Freedom Party of Ontario Provincial Executive, FPO Provincial Councillor Tim Hodges was elected to the Provincial Executive, and now serves as an Officer of the party. As such, he becomes a guardian, as it were, of the party’s guiding principles and policies. Congratulations, and thank-you, Tim!

To all members and supporters, I will just add: we are all very lucky to have Tim. Be sure to send him your best wishes and congratulations.

Regards,

Paul McKeever, B.Sc.(Hons), M.A., LL.B.
Leader, Freedom Party of Ontario

The Electoral Fate of the Hudak PCs: As Predicted 11 Months Ago?

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Oct 052011
 

by Paul McKeever, Leader, Freedom Party of Ontario

On November 20, 2010, the party I lead – Freedom Party of Ontario – held a pre-election dinner for the October 6, 2011 election. As party leader, I gave a speech to the attendees in which I explained Freedom Party’s strategy for this election. Our strategy was (and is) based upon my predictions about the fate of the Progressive Conservatives in this election.

Did my predictions pan out? Judge for yourself. To get to the meat of my argument, skip ahead to about 11mins, 30 seconds (click here):

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