Freedom Flyer Summer 1988 Cover

Freedom Flyer 12

the official newsletter of the
Freedom Party of Ontario

Summer 1988




Article electronically reproduced from:

The Mississauga News

August 26, 1987


Freedom Party candidate has no time for socialism

The only common theme among the three traditional Canadian political parties is their socialism, says Chris Balabanian, the Freedom Party candidate in Mississauga South.

"The Conservatives have stopped talking like Conservatives," he says, "the NDP are outright communists, and the Liberals are dancing to every tune," says the 42-year-old bachelor.

"It's murder to have to live under socialism," says the candidate, who had that experience as a youth in his native Syria.

Balabanian joined the Freedom Party earlier this year because he agrees with its position that governments are far too involved in the lives of citizens and business men. "You cannot breathe without breaking some obscure law," he says.

As a small - businessman who runs a clothing boutique in the riding, Balabanian says, "We are being overtaxed to the point of suffocation." Although he lives in Mississauga East, the candidate has run his business in Port Credit for four years.

One of the policies that attracted him to the party is its opposition to subsidies of any kind, says Balabanian. "It's the responsibility of every individual to make it on his own," he says, "rather than to ask for handouts. The government gives money to whoever asks for it." Balabanian says he hopes to spend no more than $500 on his campaign, which he will pay for himself. He hopes to distribute 20,000 leaflets on the Freedom Party in his door-to-door canvassing.




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