I wanted to take a few minutes and share the good news that I was recently honoured to be elected to be the Vice-Chair for the Ontario Libertarian Party.
I am a newer Libertarian, and am so grateful to have found a party that supports Freedom of Choice, and has been since its inception in Canada in 1975.
Over the years, I have had enough interest in politics to vote for different parties at different times in my life: What I lacked in my younger years was the time to investigate what the policies actually meant – many sounded great and in favour of the people, but a more in depth look and understanding revealed that the majority of the policies and bills that were passed favoured the government, politicians, and the absolution of responsibility & accountability for politicians when they didn’t do what they said or evidence of corruption came to light. Coupled with that, over the decades, politicians became more and more powerful and authoritarian-like in their ruling over the masses.
I started to despair: Then I found the Libertarian party. This gave me hope that there is another choice, another way of doing things – not the run of the mill party where everyone has to do what they said. The way that I found out about the Libertarian party was through a friend, who approached myself and another friend and wanted to put our names forth to the party to represent our area in the provincial elections in June 2022. I was in favour of the other candidate running as she has more she had a lot on her plate at the time, and despite the fact that I didn’t want to enter the political arena, there was a need. And so I did.
I ran as the provincial candidate in the June 2022 elections – what a learning curve that was! I thought I had a good understanding of what was going to happen, but I really didn’t. Thanks to a great team behind the scenes, I managed to run an active campaign and keep my sanity.
Having been through the election circus once now as a candidate, I understand the process way better now, and know what I would do different and what I would do more of if I had to do it again. And I would do it all over again as I truly believe that this is the most opportune time for the Libertarian Party to shine in Ontario (and in Canada) and a time when people are sorely needed to stand up against the current government.
The Libertarian Platform is very well thought and laid out, and I encourage everyone to become intimately familiar with it. With intimate knowledge about the platform, quality questions can be asked when having discussions with others to find out where they stand, or where they kneel.