Although our election results were more than rewarding and satisfying to us, the Libertarian Party of Ontario considered our 1.45% average showing of the vote in three London ridings to be disappointing, "after a 1982 municipal campaign and several years of excellent local publicity."
What we're still trying to figure out is this: Since Freedom Party was officially-registered as such on January 1, 1984, how could we possibly have run a "1982 municipal campaign" or enjoyed "several years of excellent local publicity"? Evidently, someone at the Libertarian Party has confused the past political efforts and campaigns of certain individual Freedom Party supporters with the activities of Freedom Party itself. The Libertarian perspective is particularly revealing; not only does it exhibit a total misunderstanding of the marketing techniques necessary to promote a political party (by assuming that Freedom Party's identity could possibly have been built upon activities before its inception), but it shows that the Libertarians are still placing too much emphasis on the significance of the 'vote', and not enough on results achieved in the community where the party is supposedly 'active'.
Considering that Election '85 was Freedom Party's first election, that we did not even directly promote our candidates (whose names appeared on the ballot without party affiliation), and that Freedom Party had been in the community only 14 months prior to the election, "disappointing" is hardly an appropriate term to describe our results.
As to the progress made by the Libertarian Party over the past eleven years in Ontario, we will offer no comment. But if it intends to continue judging itself on the same basis it judged Freedom Party, another eleven years added to its reputation will make little or no difference to the province of Ontario.
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