PUB NIGHTS -
November 16 in Barrie,
November 19 in Kitchener-Waterloo,
November 22 in Hamilton,
November 25 in Stouffville,
November 28 in Chatham,
December 9 in Toronto,
January 9 in Ottawa,
- Click here for details.
The
fall issue of Bulletin is available online.
John Kittredge was our candidate in the September 17 by-election in St. Paul's. Chairman Heath Thomas reflects on the recession, bailout and expected tax increases, and how it can be used to our advantage. We have a story about "Heidi's Bar" that provides an explanation for the financial crisis that is easy to understand. Craig Hodgins, our Campaign Director, explains our goals for the 2011 General Election and asks for candidates and money to help reach them. The Party sponsored Ezra Levant on September 26 to talk about his inquisition by the Human Rights Commission. Allen Small explains how we can use Operation Politically Homeless at this year's "Word On The Street" event to increase our name recognition and possibly gain a few new members.
Read it here.
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2009,
was held at the Yorkland Hotel in Toronto.
Fred McMahon of the Fraser Institute explained how they calculate the economic freedom index for many countries around the world. It turns out that countries with higher economic freedom have better economic growth.
Gerry Nichols, President of
Libertas Post,
talked about some of the lessons he learned from one of North America's top political consultants while working at the National Citizens Coalition. His main message was stick to your principles and find attention-grabbing ways to present them. He also had some very nice things to say about the Libertarain Party. You can see the text of his speech
here.
Our Campaign Director, Craig Hodgins, presented the latest plans for the October 2011 election. We plan to run 60 candidates, so we are looking for lots of volunteers. Even if they only run as paper candidates, the Libertarain name will be on the ballot. And we need at least $30,000 in our war chest to support these candidates. More would allow us to experiment with radio and newspaper advertising.
We elected Gene Balfour and Allen Small as Members at Large and Anthony Giles, George Dance and Nunzio Venuto as members of the Ethics Committee.
John Kittredge talked about his experience in the St. Paul's provincial by-election held September 17, 2009 (see below).
Unfortunately, Alison Myrden from
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition,
was ill and unable to make our meeting.
Everyone enjoyed the meeting. Four people signed up as new members. The meeting was a great success.
JOHN KITTREDGE - LIBERTARIAN CANDIDATE IN ST. PAUL'S BY-ELECTION SEPTEMBER 17
John Kittredge, our candidate in St. Pauls in the 2007 Ontario Election and the 2008 federal election, ran again in the riding vacated by the now-infamous Michael Bryant. With the help of over a dozen volunteers he was able to distribute over 4,000 pamphlets. John attended two All Candidate Meetings and presented the Libertarian message on CFRB. John came in fifth in a field of ten candidates, receiving a larger percentage of the vote than in previous campaigns. Thanks to John and all his volunteers for a great job! Next time he plans to make greater use of Facebook and the Internet.
To read more about John click here.
Western Standard lists top 100 advocates for Liberty
Back in January Western Standard prepared a list of the top 100 Canadians who distinguished themselves in 2008, or over a lifetime, in the defence of liberty. Not too surprisingly, Ezra Levant, publisher of Western Standard magazine, was at the top of the list for his fight against human rights commissions and their attack on free speech. Number 8 was Dennis Young, leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada. Jean-Serge Brisson, Deputy Leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party and former leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada, was number 10 for his personal court cases against Ontario's seat belt laws and the mandatory bilingual sign bylaw in Russell. For a brief description of the top 25 names on the list, click here.
If you are interested in the rest of the list, you can see
names 26-50,
51-75,
and
76-100
Media Release:
Libertarians declare it's time to clean up Toronto’s Trash
(July 16, 2009)
Libertarians would solve Toronto’s trash problem with a simple solution: Allow private garbage collection and end the monopoly. This works in the former municipality of Etobicoke and the six municipalities surrounding Toronto. In 2007 the Ontario Waste Management Association advised Toronto City Council that they could save at least $10 million per year, and possibly as much as $30 million a year by contracting out Toronto’s residential waste collection!
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The
summer issue of Bulletin is available online.
It includes a media release criticizing McGuinty's budget, a report on the Marijuana March and Toronto Freedom Festival by Jack Morawetz, and Doug Burn's editorial on the proposed coalition of the Liberals, Bloc and NDP Parties. Zork Hun writes an open letter to his MP criciizing the stimulus spending. Jean-Serge Brisson describes Mike Kennedy's latest appeal of his smoking conviction.
Read it here.
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Libertarians "Mugged by Harper"
writes Terence Corcoran in the National Post, April 30, 2009
Corcoran describes Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s address to the Manning Networking and Exhibition Conference March 12, 2009 as, “a rambling two-track message.” First he justified his Party’s un-conservative actions as, “compromises that have to do with basic reality." Or, as Corcoran says, they were mugged by reality. Then Corcoran describes Harper’s second track. “What followed was Mr. Harper's conscious rebuke of libertarianism. In fact, more words were spent undermining libertarians than liberals. Libertarians, he said, ‘believe that the solution to all problems lays in less government. More specifically, they believe in individual freedom, freedom from government, the freedom that does in fact underlie the market economy.’" Sounds pretty accurate, doesn’t it? But later, Harper “pretty much blamed libertarianism for the economic crisis. Wall Street, he implied mockingly, was the heart of libertarianism, and Wall Street and the libertarian free market tanked the economy,” reports Corcoran. Does Harper really believe this? Corcoran concludes with, “Do libertarians pose some kind of threat to the Harper Conservatives? Apparently they do, judging by Mr. Harper's attempt to eliminate them from the party. And he might be right.” Now that sounds like progress for the Libertarian Party.
Read the complete Opinion piece here. You will find the complete text of Harpers speach at the end of Corcoran's article.
Libertarianism in a nutshell
By Karen Selick in the National Post, April 7, 2009
"Libertarianism is the political philosophy occupying the top right-hand corner of the [Nolan Chart] graph," Writes Karen Selick. "We believe in maximizing individual freedom in both the economic and the social spheres. We believe in minimizing state interference in both spheres." Karen explains the two-dimension political map created by David Nolan and used in
the World's Smallest Political Quiz developed by Advocates for Self-Government.
She also explains that just because a libertarian would legalize drugs, prostitution and so on does not make them a libertine, since she, a libertarian, does not engage in or advocate such activities.
Read the complete article here.
The
spring issue of
Bulletin is available online.
Paolo Fabrizio runs against PC Leader John Tory in the Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock By-election on March 5, 2009.
Leader Sam Apelbaum discusses the current economic crisis and explains why he believes it will help the libertarian cause.
Deputy Leader Jean-Serge Brisson describes his weekends "doing time."
Treasurer Jim McIntosh provides the Annual Financial Report and 2009 Expense Budget.
And we have announcements for the annual BBQ, Pub Nights in six locations, and John Stossel's ABC special.
Read it here.
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Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock By-Election
March 5 - Libertarian Paolo Fabrizio ran against John Tory.
- The primary objective of our campaign was to let more people know we exist and to find libertarians in the area who are willing to help us grow. In spite of suffering from pneumonia and pink eye, Paolo was able to accomplish both objectives. He received press coverage in several local papers and drove four hours (round trip) to participate in an All Candidates Meeting and canvass several streets. More importantly, he found a fellow libertarian in the riding who is willing to organize pub nights and may even run in the next general election.
Click here. to see our media release for his campaign.
Click here for more information on Paolo's campaign.
Libertarian Party covered in National Post Column
in an article on raw milk in a column in the National Post. "The libertarian line of thought was echoed by another letter writer -- the communications director of the Ontario Libertarian Party," says columnist Paul Russell.
He quotes Marty as saying, "A charge of ‘endangering the health of others’ is much more politically acceptable to voters than a charge of ‘refusing to allow bureaucrats to centrally plan the economy.’ ”
Read more of Marty's comments by clicking here.
The
winter issue of Bulletin includes a report on the Leadership Convention and lists the new Executive. Larry Stevens recommends we infiltrate the public school system to introduce courses on libertarianism. We have the results for Libertarian Candidates in the Federal Election and George Dance writes about the spirit of liberty.
Read it here.
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Ban the NFL in Canada! That's what Senator Larry Campbell wants to do
with Bill S-238, AKA the Canadian Football Act. Marty Gobin, our
Communications Director, warned Buffalo Bills fans about this threat to freedom in the Buffalo News.
Read
it here. NFL Radio saw the Op-Ed and asked Marty for an interview.
Marty Gobin had a column
published in the The Windsor Star titled "Rock
under the Gun." In it he challenges former Minister of Justice Allan
Rock for describing the federal Tories' use of an amnesty for long gun owners as
being "undemocratic trickery."
Read it here.
He also had a letter published in
The Ottawa Citizen titled
"Capitalism is not brutish, socialism is." This was in response to a
letter that described people living in a capitalist society as "selfish" and
"brutish."
Read it here. Both items identified Marty as Communications Director
for the Ontario Libertarian Party.
LibertyInCanada.com is a project of the
Canadian Constitution Foundation and is edited by Pierre Lemieux. It
provides "Liberticidal" news, columns, videos and discussions about liberty in
Canada
Marty Gobin, Communications Director, wrote a column
for the Winnipeg Free Press
Better to ban walks in rain than pellet guns.
In it he rebuts the claim made by
the president of the Coalition for Gun Control that pellet guns are
a significant safety problem.
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ALERT: The Chief Firearms Officer of Ontario has made it official
policy to conduct warrantless searches of senior citizens' residences for
firearms. Find out more
here.
25 Libertarians ran
in the October 10, 2007 Ontario General Election. See who
they were and how they did here.
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Filmmaker Stuart Browning shows the callousness of "single-payer," government-run health care systems as practiced in Canada.
Click the image on the left to view his video.
Western Standard published details of this story in the December 4 issue.
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The party is setting up a youth wing. If
you're young and would like to help then contact
More details will be posted on
this website as they are finalized.
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