Freedom Flyer Summer 1988 Cover

Freedom Flyer 12

the official newsletter of the
Freedom Party of Ontario

Summer 1988




Article electronically reproduced from:

The London Free Press

August 18, 1987


Marc Emery to run in Middlesex as candidate for Freedom Party

Self-described "veteran activist" Marc Emery of London will carry the Freedom Party's banner in Middlesex riding in the Sept. 10 election.

For Emery, a used-book dealer, it will be his first try for public office above the municipal level. He lost bids for a Ward 3 aldermanic seat in 1982 and 1985.

Emery, a vocal opponent of government intrusion into the private affairs of citizens, has been a high - profile campaigner against such causes as London's bid to be host of the 1991 Pan-American Games and pay increases for local politicians. He created a minor furore during the strike in May of city outside workers when he organized a group of volunteers to pick up garbage.

The Pan-Am Games battle - London dropped its bid when the federal government announced it wouldn't help financially - and the volunteer garbage pickup affair are two of the reasons why Emery has chosen to run in urban-rural Middlesex, he said Monday.

"The voters of Nelson Park and Cheyenne Village, two London communities in Middlesex riding, already know about the Freedom Party's record of action" on the two issues, he said.

"I want to take our message of self-reliance and individual responsibility to the towns and villages of Middlesex."

Emery attacked the three major parties - Liberals, Conservatives and New Democrats - for "shameless vote buying with the taxpayers' own money." He said the 44-month - old Freedom party gives voters "the option of choosing between more state control under the increasingly socialist policies of the three major parties or individual freedom and responsibility."

Emery, 29, is married, has two children and lives on Oxford Street East in London.

He'll be campaigning against Doug Reycraft, who won the seat for the Liberals in 1985, ending 14 years of Conservative rule in the riding; Conservative candidate Renie Long and NDP candidate Mike Wyatt.

Freedom Party leader Robert Metz said the party would field candidates in at least eight ridings in the election. The candidates are concentrated in the London - St. Thomas area and in two Mississauga ridings.

Metz said the party doesn't hold nomination meetings "in the traditional sense." Candidates are selected by the Party executive.




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