Ontario Election Info Kit: The Freedom Party Platform '07

by Apathy is Boring — September 14, 2007

FREEDOM PARTY OF ONTARIO   
[FP]   
President:    Robert Metz
Leader:    Paul McKeever

Scrap Ontario's Income Tax
There are many ways for a government to raise revenue. For numerous reasons, the taxation of income is among the worst. An income tax functions as a punishment for doing good: a fine for working and earning. Ontario’s income tax is even worse: in Ontario, when you earn more, you are required to pay a higher percentage of your earnings to the government. It is a tax that punishes you for increasing your productivity and growing the economy.

Legalize Faster, Better Healthcare
1. It will be perfectly legal for you to buy health care insurance from a private insurer, if you want to do so.
2. In full compliance with the Canada Health Act, the government will continue to offer non-profit public health insurance that is publicly-administered, comprehensive in its coverage, available on uniform terms and conditions, portable, and accessible.
3. You will not be required to buy private or public health insurance. If it is your preference, you will be free to pay-as-you-go, instead.
4. A physician will be free to serve publicly-insured patients, privately-insured patients, and pay-as-you-go patients.
5. It will be perfectly legal to open a non-profit or for-profit health care facility. Those facilities will lighten the load in Ontario’s hospital waiting rooms. Wait times will shorten.

Improve Education
1. Introducing a direct-pay system. Instead of paying taxes to the government for your child’s education, you will pay directly to the public or private school you choose for your child, and only to that school. Schools will have to please you to keep your business. Financial assistance will be available for those in demonstrable need.
2. Offering voluntary yearly testing of your child.
3. Publishing, annually, a report of each school’s average test score on the yearly test.

Improve the Supply of reliable, affordable Electricity
1. We will end the system of price-fixing so that individuals will only pay for the electricity they consume.
2. We will improve the supply of electricity by offering generation companies contractually-entrenched protection from direct or indirect price-fixing.
3. We will ensure Ontario’s transmission system (i.e., the system of towers and wires) is maintained, replaced and expanded in an economically sound way.
4. We will remove regulatory roadblocks to facilitate off-grid and on-grid power generation (e.g., wind turbines, solar cells, net-metering, etc.) by homeowners, business owners, and other consumers.

Restore Fair Auto Insurance
1. The “tort-based” system that Ontario had before no-fault was introduced will be restored.
2. Ending the Statutory Accident Benefits system.

Scrap Property Taxes
1. A McKeever government will scrap Ontario’s taxation of property.
2. We will convert Ontario’s PST into a broader-based value-added tax, and lower the PST rate as necessary to make the conversion revenue-neutral.
3. We will give each and every Ontario municipality the discretion to add a municipal premium to the PST within its respective geographic borders.

Contact info:
Tel:    (519) 681-3999
Fax:    (519) 681-2857
Internet:    http://www.freedomparty.on.ca
Email:    rmetz@freedomparty.on.ca