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On the Jim Richards Showgram, NewsTalk 1010 AM, Toronto. Paul McKeever, leader, Freedom Party of Ontario, discussed Freedom Party of Ontario’s promise to open up the LCBO and The Beer Store to competition from other stores (such as grocery stores and 24 hour convenience stores), so that Ontario has wider selection, lower prices, and greater shopping convenience.
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On long weekends, and at other times when demand for gasoline increases, gasoline prices often increase. Many politicians jump on this opportunity to allege “collusion” among gasoline companies, and to call prices increases “price gouging”.
On May 17, 2007 – the Thursday prior to the Victoria Day long weekend in Ontario – Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives (PCs) introduced a private members Bill (Bill 228, Gas Prices Notice Act, 2007) which would require gasoline companies to give consumers three days advance notice of any increase in gasoline prices. One day later, PC leader John Tory issued a press release stating he told gasoline companies that they “must” do a better job of “justifying” their prices.
In this episode of FPTV, Freedom Party of Ontario leader Paul McKeever discusses the injustice of calling the proper functioning of the price system “price gouging”, and explains how the PCs bill would actually cause consumers to force gasoline companies to sell fuel below cost: Bill 228 replaces alleged “price gouging” with patently obvious “fuel gouging”. Continue reading »
“Freedom Party today released a video that takes aim at gasoline “price gouging” conspiracy theorists, and that condemns Ontario’s newly-introduced private member’s Bill 228, which is titled the Gas Prices Notice Act, 2007…” Click here to read the full media release.
“Freedom Party of Ontario leader Paul McKeever is condemning John Tory’s statement today, in a media release, that gasoline companies should have to ‘do a better job of justifying…their prices to the public’…” Click here to read the full media release.
“…As I have maintained since before the imposition of the Eves-McGuinty 4.3 cent price cap”, says Freedom Party of Ontario leader, Paul McKeever, “price controls do not control prices in the long run: they inflate prices in the long run…” [Click here to read the full release]
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Freedom Party’s April 3, 1991 response to the NDP government’s February 1991 consultation paper “Rent Control: Issues and Options”, by then Minister of Housing Dave Cooke Continue reading »
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Years prior to the founding of Freedom Party of Ontario, Marc Emery calls into the Wayne McLean radio talk show to comment about inflation.
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Years prior to the founding of Freedom Party of Ontario, Robert Metz calls into the Wayne McLean radio talk show to comment about inflation, expansion of the money supply, and price controls.
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