Ontario Election Kit: Family Coalition Party Platform '07

by Apathy is Boring — September 14, 2007

FAMILY COALITION PARTY OF ONTARIO   
[ONTARIO COALITION]   
President:    Lynne Scime
Leader:    Giuseppe Gori

1. FAMILY VALUES
The Family Coalition party would revoke all legislation that re-defined the term “spouse” to include same-sex persons, within the limits imposed by federal law.

2. EDUCATION REFORM
The Family Coalition Party:
- will strive for excellence in education
- would encourage an educational atmosphere that develops the physical, intellectual and moral qualities.
- supports placing parents in a decision-making role.
- supports maintaining a healthy competition among schools.
- will propose a fixed rate for student loan repayment equal and not greater than the Bank of Canada prime rate.

3. ECONOMIC REFORM
The Family Coalition Party will:
- Reconsider the legislation on pay equity, employment equity, and labour relations.
- Create a responsible free-enterprise climate, with government intervention limited to the enforcement of the entrepreneur’s responsibilities in such areas as work safety and protection of the environment.
- Require government to reduce its deficit each year by at least 20%. Failing that, the Premier must call an election.
- Review non-governmental agencies receiving public funding. If they can be sustained by private donations, government funding would be eliminated.
- Help the private sector to create jobs by reducing taxes to stimulate investment and increase the buying power of the average citizen.
- Work towards the elimination of "universal" assistance programs at the Federal level.
- Rescind social assistance to minors who can be supported by their parents and who are not physically or mentally disadvantaged.
- Remove the special privileges of politicians and eliminate those benefits that cushion them against taxes and inflation.

4. HEALTHCARE
The Family Coalition Party will gradually introduce the Medical Savings Account system (MSA) in Ontario. 
- $2,000 per year is earmarked in an MSA account for every adult person in Ontario. Any amount leftover is rolled into the individual's locked-in, non-transferable RRSP.
- All youth up to the age of 18 will receive full medical care coverage by the government.

The Family Coalition Party will:
- work in cooperation with the federal government to remove present legal obstructions against physicians who have graduated outside Canada.
- introduce HIV antibody screening prior to marriage, on admission to any Ontario hospital, and upon incarceration in any Ontario correctional facility.
- strengthen the Under-serviced Areas Training Program (UATP)
- provide and make available balanced information and preferentials on preventive medicine, healthy lifestyle, nutrition, natural supplements and natural medicine.
- legislate sizeable additional tax credits for those families that choose to adopt children.

5. SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
The Family Coalition Party will:
- encourage and support private and independent daycare centers.
- reimburse parents in need for daycare expenses up to a prescribed monthly amount

6. THE ENVIRONMENT
The Family Coalition Party will:
- ban, as soon as possible, the production, use, transportation, sale and disposal of “persistent toxic chemicals”. 
- waive the provincial sales tax on new vehicles being converted to natural gas, and on the required vehicle conversion equipment and promote their use by all levels of government.
- convert all coal burning generating stations over to clean coal burning within its first mandate.

7. LAW AND ORDER
The Family Coalition Party will:
- require a person’s juvenile record to be released upon the first adult conviction
- require a person who is convicted of a violent offence for which he/she has been previously convicted to serve the balance of the previous unserved sentence.
In addition, the maximum sentence for the current conviction will be doubled, without possibility for parole.

 8. HOUSING
The Family Coalition Party will:
- envisage monthly mortgage payments for such low cost houses that would compare favorably with monthly rental bills.
- gradually phase-out rent controls after the supply of houses has substantially increased.

9. AGRICULTURE
The Family Coalition Party will:
- eliminate the Land Tax Rebate by removing the education portion of taxes from agricultural land, and add education taxes to taxable incomes.
- promote the responsible management of livestock waste, to protect our water resources from contamination.

10. GOVERNMENT REFORM
The Family Coalition Party will:
- reduce the budgets of all government Agencies, Boards and Commissions by 10% the first year and initiate a review the second year to eliminate as many of them as possible.
- reduce personnel in government ministries by about 5% per year through attrition.
- eliminate public funding of opinion polls, of non-essential government advertising and special interest groups.

11. ELECTORAL REFORM
The Family Coalition Party will:
- require the government to initiate an auditor's report within eight months prior to an election, to be made public when the election is called.
- change the election act to allow only individual voters to support political candidates and parties, within the current limits established by law. 

Contact info:
Tel:    1-888-613-2645
Internet:    http://www.familycoalitionparty.com/
Email:    info@FamilyCoalitionParty.com