PARTY MISSION
TO RESTORE FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY TO ONTARIO

"Restoring freedom and prosperity to Ontario is our fundamental mission," says Freedom Party Leader Jack Plant. "To do that, we have to be able and willing to work with people from every walk of life and political background. People have every good reason to be suspicious of new political parties. We respect that. We intend to EARN their support."

Freedom Party is an officially-registered Ontario political party that has been working for individual freedom, lower taxes, and free enterprise since 1984, when the party was founded. Far more than "just a political party" which fields candidates during Ontario elections, Freedom Party lobbies, educates, and supports groups and individuals working towards these common goals on a full-time basis.

Since its inception, Freedom Party has been documenting its record of action in its official party newsletter, Freedom Flyer. A sister publication, consent, is the party's forum for opinion, discussion, and debate on many controversial issues and ideas. Because the party likes to demonstrate that it practises what it preaches, back-issues of both newsletters are always available to members of the public and media, on this website and directly from Fp.

In its first public campaign in 1985, Freedom Party successfully prevented the spending of $110 million provincial, federal, and municipal tax-dollars to fund the 1991 Pan-Am Games in London, Ontario, where the party is headquartered. The campaign included six months of intense lobbying of federal, provincial, and municipal governments, and the door-to-door delivery of the party's 8-page brochure outlining its stand on the issue.

Freedom Party has gone head-to-head with various powerful unions, and has even assisted in the successful prevention of union ratifications.

Most recently, Freedom Party has attacked what it regards as the "racist mandate" of Ontario's Human Rights Commission (HRC). Volunteering his services, party president Robert Metz successfully defended a London landlord falsely accused of "discrimination" before an HRC Board of Inquiry in 1993. During the course of hearings, the Board of Inquiry placed a publication ban on one of the party's newsletters which reported details of a deal the Commission tried to make with the landlord in exchange for dropping the complaint against him. Despite the ban, the party has continued to distribute the information, and is now preparing to go on the offensive in bringing the dangers of the HRC to the attention of Ontarians.

Freedom Party believes that the purpose of government is to protect individual freedom of choice, not to restrict it. Founded on the principle that "Every individual, in the peaceful pursuit of personal fulfilment, has an absolute right to his or her own life, liberty, and property," the party has taken its philosophy to the streets by leading and supporting many successful campaigns favouring lower taxes, freedom of association in labour relations, freedom of speech, choice in education, and objectivity in the administration of justice.

"Regardless of your political affiliation," says Party Leader Jack Plant, "Freedom Party has something to offer you. Check us out. Surprise yourself."

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Page last updated on April 30, 2002