The Libertarian Party’s Plan for Ontario – June 1, 2018

So how did The Libertarian Party stand up to debate? It’s refreshing to me to hear a political party in Canada fighting for the private sector. Unfortunately, as it stands now in Canada, Canadians prefer bigger government and Canadians have become accustomed and secure with the government handling a large chunk of services. How do you reverse this type of thinking? The reversal in bigger government will happen in Canada when the economic collapse happens and Canadians realize that it will take about 20 years to get out of and no matter how big they make the government they won’t be able to fix the problem.

 
For those of us, that know where Allen Small is coming from he’s easy to stomach, however for the rest of Canadians he’s in the way. What should interest those of you reading this is that it’s the Progressive Conservatives voters that despise The Libertarian Party the most as they feel the that The Libertarian Party has the potential to take conservative votes away. In all honesty, I can’t blame Progressive Conservatives for feeling this way, Canada has 4 dominant Left-leaning political parties. The reason the Conservatives are called the Progressive Conservatives comes from Canada’s love for Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Now on the left-leaning front the Liberals, NDP and Greens probably won’t pay any attention to The Libertarian Party until they become a threat.

That aside I thank Steve Paikin for giving them a platform and for asking Allen Small challenging questions related to his political ideology. The truth is for Librarians is simple, don’t think just because you hold the truth that people have to listen. It’s still your job to sell your ideas and goals to the Canadian public. Selling truth and asking people to hold themselves personally responsible is no easy task when you have 5 other political parties that can point to the successes of bigger government.

In Canada, like I’ve been saying for years, we have an economic crash coming and if I were the Libertarian party I would get ahead of it, As a Libertarian, you don’t have to play the role of the fear monger, you can play the role of solution creator. It’s extremely important in my view that Libertarians show compassion and remember that for many Canadians explaining how a bigger government is bad is actually taking them back to 1st and 2nd grade. Most Canadians can’t even fathom why they should shrink the public sector, many can’t imagine a world without it.

So if The Libertarian Party expects to gain at least 2% voter support it’s important that take baby steps. One thing I admired about Stephen Harper was that on the national scale he didn’t try to explain too much. He kept his message simple which at the time was reducing GST from 7% to 5%, he ran that political campaign until it stuck and then he did it, and not only did he do it but he managed to shrink the deficit at the time. Something that to this day is simply ignored by the Liberals and the NDP, I mean think about what Harper did and what the NDP and Liberals did the moment they got the chance which in Ontario was the creation of HST!

Now as a right-leaning party we know instinctively that we could almost eliminate taxes entirely and the Canadian economy could be vibrant however if you were to explain these changes to the Canadian public in detail they’d call you a sellout because most Canadians associate the private sector as a threat to national security. Yes, Canadians do view our country this way even though they’re reliant on the private sector, however, if you took your time and did things in increments softening Canadians up how the real world works The Libertarian Party in my view would be amazed by the results.