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Principles, Policies & Platform of the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association 2016-17

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Introducing a New Vision to Make Ontario Strong - A Real Alternative for Ontario!

If you are worried about what the future holds for you and your family, you are not alone, as I feel the same way you do about high taxes, high unemployment, and an uncertain future.

I believe that decades of overspending and mismanagement by previous governments - Liberal, Progressive Conservative, and New Democrats - are responsible for the crisis we find ourselves in today. I believe it is time to open our eyes to a new vision of what our nation can be.

The old vision held by the Liberals, Tories, and New Democrats before them, revolves around big government and the high taxes that go with it. It is a vision which has us working more than half the year just to pay our tax bill. And it is a vision which trivializes our sense of ourselves by implying that we can only hold this country together through government programs, government spending, and government propaganda.

The other vision, the one offered by myself and the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association, is of a province defined and build by its citizens, rather than by its government. It is a vision of smaller government and lower taxes. It is a vision which reaches out to the initiative, drive and diversity of Ontarians. It calls upon individuals, families, and communities to lead the way to growth, progress, and unity. It is a vision in which stronger families and communities - not more government programs - are the principle pillars of social security. It is a vision in which unity is based on equality for all citizens and provinces rather than special status for only some.

Our new vision to "Make Ontario Strong" calls for fundamental change, which is why we have put together a specific plan that will bring new hope to each one of us in these challenging times, and give us the fresh start we need to take charge of our own future. Reform's plan for a brighter future focuses on six areas:

providing growth, opportunity, and jobs for Ontarians through lower taxes, smaller government, and a balanced budget; presenting traditional family friendly policies that support the growth and development of families, including fairer tax provisions for parents; reforming the criminal justice system to make communities safer and shift the balance from the rights of criminals to the rights of law abiding citizens and victims; improving social security by strengthening health care to provide Ontarians with better and speedier access to services; strengthening the pension system to ensure Ontarians can save for secure retirement; improving other social services such as Employment Insurance; and ensuring the equality of all Ontarians; strengthening Ontarian unity by moving more powers to the level of government best able to manage them; and providing better representation and accountability in Legislature.

I invite every reader of this "Make Ontario Strong" platform to join with us, buy a membership and join our grassroots democratic association, and become active in politics so your voice and vote count this next time around. Our aim is nothing less than to work together to give you, your family, and this province a real chance to Make Ontario Strong for a better tomorrow today together!

Make Ontario Strong!

This "Make Ontario Strong! - A Real Alternative for Ontario" document contains the official principles, policies & platform of the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association as of 2016-17 adopted by the OPDRA provincial executive council and its future OPDRA assembly.

The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association is guided by the Statement of Principles, which remains largely unchanged since the Ontario Reform Party was founded in 1989, giving a free voice and vote to Rural and Northern Ontarians and those suburban folk who too hear deep in their glowing True North, Strong, and Free hearts the "Great Call of the Wild" from the small town life out in the Rural hinterland and far up North past the wasteful intrusion, intervention, and bureaucratic red tape that is the gritty governmental grime of the big city.

This edition includes changes to policies adopted by resolutions of the last Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association assembly. These changes include amendments, additions, and deletions to previous statements of policy.

This edition of Principles, Policies, and Platform is especially important because it forms the basis of the election platform Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association will be advocating to - "Make Ontario Strong! - A Real Alternative for Ontario" for a province whose government has made it the most highly indebted subsovereign borrowing jurisdiction in the world as the Wynne Liberal Government has notched their belt at $321 billion dollars of debt and deficit that does not see any light at its never ending tunnel of economic and fiscal irresponsibility.

As the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association is the only political action committee in the Province of Ontario speaking out for both fiscal and economic responsibilities, on hot topic issues such as mismanagement with the Hydro fiasco which has lead to skyrocketing electricity rates, and democratic, electoral, and legislative reforms, such as fair versus fixed nominations in the provincial political parties and free versus whipped votes in the Ontario Legislature, we believe policy should be developed by, of, and for the grassroots citizens of this province who then will live under the rule of law they create within the order they support.

The policy development process leading to each assembly is a cornerstone of our democratic grassroots party, it begins with Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association members at the constituency level creating resolutions, through a preferential balloted selection process where each and every electoral district constituency across the Province of Ontario then decide which resolutions will finally reach the floor of the assembly for final debate and free vote by all democratically elected delegates for each riding.

Any questions about this policy development process can be addressed to the provincial executive office of the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association.

To become a member of the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association, and democratically participate in the development of our principles, policies, and platform, please complete the membership application form at the bottom of this document.

Democratic grassroots politics is not a sideline spectator sport, so I invite you to join with us, and encourage you to explore and develop the 20/20 Vision policies that will Make Ontario Strong into the 21st Century and far beyond!

SIGNATURE

Bill (William) Cook
Chair, Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association
2003, 2007, and 2011 Candidate of Record for Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound,
Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs Critic and Deputy Leader,
Reform Party of Ontario
Cellphone: 1(226)668-8815
Email: cookstar@bmts.com

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Principles, Policies & Platform of the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association 2016-17

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Contents

Statement of Principles

Fiscal Reform
Job Creation, Tax Fairness, Balanced Budget, Deficit Reduction, Parliamentary Spending, Spending Effectiveness, Equalization, Government Procurement, Government Regulations, Privatization and Crown Corporations, Public Utilities Income Tax Transfer Act

Economic Reform
Agriculture, Banking System, Domestic Trade and Transportation, Hydro Electricity and Energy, Hunting, Fisheries, and Wildlife, Industrial Development and Diversification, Labour Management Relations, Monetary Policy and Interest Rates, Public Service, Research and Development, Internet and Telecommunications

Social Reform
Welfare State Alternatives, Income Security and Support, Canada Pension Plan, Unemployment Insurance, Education, Training, and the Trades, Family, Child Care, Health Care, Cultural Heritage and Official Languages, Multiculturalism, Immigration

Environmental Reform
Sustainable Development, Coordinated Action, Pollution Control, Environmentally Sensitive Zoning

Political Reform
Recall, Referendum and Citizens Initiative, Real Responsible Representation in the Legislature, Electoral Reform, Parliamentary Reform, M.P.P. Pensions and Perks Packages

Judicial Reform
Family Violence, Young Offenders, Victims Justice, Firearms, Parole, Court System, Ontario Provincial Police

Constitutional Reform
Triple E Senate, Equality, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Aboriginal Affairs, Constitutional Amendments, Regional Fairness Tests, Status of the Combined Territories

External Relations
International Trade, National Defence, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Aid

National Unity
Reconfederation, Decentralization, and the Equality of all the Provinces for One United Canada, Secession Contingency Plans

Ontario Election Platform

The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association will implement the grassroot democratic policies related to provincial political parties, parliamentary and governmental spending, and candidates in this publication if and when we form the government, so that no one provincial political party or candidate of record will be put any at a financial or competitive disadvantage.

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ONTARIO PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC REFORM ASSOCIATION
SEVEN POINT MAKE ONTARIO STRONG PLATFORM



1. Job creation, economic development, small business support (economic)

2. Tax fairness, debt reduction, government spending waste (fiscal)

3. Hydro electricity, selling and billing, carbon tax or cap and trade emissions pricing agenda (fiscal and environmental)

4. Parental choice, education school choice, sexual health education curriculum agenda (social and educational)

5. Reforming the Legislature at Queens Park with democratic, electoral, and parliamentary reforms (fiscal and democratic)

6. Reforming the Province with regional sovereignty, Rural and Northern Ontario alienation, give the rest of Ontario outside Toronto a voice politically (civil and democratic)

7. Reforming the Confederation for more provincial rights, national unity over constitutional disaccord, to give Ontario a voice in Ottawa (civil and nationalist)

OUR OntarioReform.ca GUARANTEE: We @ OntarioReform.ca support the same democratic grassroot ideals that started the Saskatchewan Party in 1997, being a free enterprise coalition of four Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative and four Liberal MLAs meeting late one night in a Regina diner after one long tortuous session at the Saskatchewan Legislature as the divided free enterprise opposition against the united socialist government, all of which sought to remove the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party from power. They began talks with other party members and supporters amongst less government believing small "c" conservatives, free enterprise believing small "l" liberals, federal Reformers and likeminded Reform oriented individuals and independents to create a new provincial political party that could rally the growing sentiment for change in Saskatchewan under a single party banner. "I think what was special was that these were sitting MLAs, so they had a platform, but they didn't have much else. There was no money, there was no membership, they didn't even know if they'd get official party status or if they would have their name allowed. Many people argued they shouldn't be allowed to use that name. Finally being recognized, the Saskatchewan Party served as the Official Opposition, and free enterprise alternative to the Saskatchewan NDP. Not until the 2007 general provincial election, when it won 38 seats in the Legislative Assembly, did the Saskatchewan Party finally become the Government and its leader Brad Wall became its Premier. During the 2011 general provincial election, the party won a landslide victory, winning 49 of 58 seats for a majority government in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Party believes in the following ideals and so do we as OntarioReform.ca:

  1. Economic growth and job creation through the private sector, not governmental public sector, as the engine of the economy in Ontario;
  2. Steady, gradual reduction in government spending and taxation, while maintaining a firm commitment to balanced budgets for all Ontarian taxpayers;
  3. A high quality health care system for all Ontarian people, regardless of where they live within the province;
  4. A world class education system for all Ontarian people, which strives for excellence while it empowers local decisionmaking and encourages choice and competition;
  5. A strong social safety net which protects those Ontario people who truly need support, while encouraging individuals to become self sufficient;
  6. Democratic reform and renewal to make government more responsive to all Ontarian citizens across Ontario that it serves;
  7. Individual freedom and liberty, free and voluntary associations, limited and decentralized government, personal responsibility, freedom of expression and speech, property rights, and the equality of opportunity for all Ontarian citizens;
  8. Smaller, less intrusive and interventionist, more free, efficient, and effective government for all Ontarian citizens;
  9. The constant improvement of Ontario’s economic, social, and cultural conditions for the benefit and betterment of all Ontarians within a strong and united Canada.

Make Ontario Strong! - A Real Alternative for Ontario!



ONTARIO PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC REFORM ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES



1. We affirm as Ontarians our true and strong commitment to free and fair Canada, being as one of the equal ten provinces and combined territories in one nation indivisible, and to our vision of brand new Canada as a balanced Confederation where Ottawa listens and responds to the democratic will of its provinces, territories, and their citizens.

2. We affirm our commitment to the rule of the law and to the concept that governments and their lawmakers are not above the laws of the Province of Ontario.

3. We believe in dynamic, constructive, and progressive change politically in a grassroots democratic renewal of the reform tradition here in Ontario for Ontarians.

4. We affirm that provincial political parties here in Ontario should be effectively guided by stated values, ideals, and principles which are truly shared by their members and faithfully rooted in the political beliefs of Ontarians.

5. We believe that the Ontarian people are the most valuable resource of this province and that the progressive development of human knowledge, skills, and relationships are the keys to full participation in the knowledge based service economy of the future.

6. We believe that our identity and vision for a future Ontario should be rooted in, inspired by, and developed through a fresh appreciation of this land as our land, with a creative mandate as its stewards, and the supreme importance to our well being of exploring, renewing, and conserving our natural resources, being air, land, and water, a physical environment for the benefit and enjoyment of our own future generations.

7. We affirm the inherent Ontario value, dignity, and respect of the individual human being and the importance of strengthening and protecting the Ontarian family unit as essential to the well being of individual personhood and society at large.

8. We believe that every individual, group, and region in Ontario is entitled to fundamental justice, and that fundamental justice entitles the people of each region to benefit equally, without discrimination, from participation in the shared culture and heritage our province and from the programs and expenditures of its government.

9. We believe in the Ontario value of free enterprise and initiative, and that governments have a responsibility to foster and protect an economically competitive environment in which both can be encouraged and exercised by individuals and groups respectively.

10. We believe that the creation of wealth and productive jobs for Ontarians is best achieved through the operations of a responsible, broadly based, free enterprise economy fairly balanced by the ownership of private property, freedom of contract, and the operations of free markets and the respective opportunities found within.

11. We believe that Ontarians have a personal and collective responsibility to care and provide for the basic needs of those Ontarian people who are unable to care and provide for themselves.

12. We believe in freedom of opinion, conscience, and religion, and the right of Ontarians to advocate, without fear of intimidation or suppression, ideals, values, and public policies which reflect their most deeply held personal beliefs and values.

13. We believe that public policy in democratic societies should reflect the grassroots democratic will of the majority of the citizens of Ontario as determined by free and fair elections, recall, referenda, and the decisions of real responsible representative and legally constituted parliaments and assemblies elected for, of, and by the people.

14. We believe that the interest of minorities and the people of the underpopulated regions of Ontario should be safeguarded by constitutional guarantees and parliamentary institutions which fairly balance representation by population with regional based representation to alleviate alienation, inequality, and disparity.

15. We believe in the common Ontarian sense of the common Ontarian people, their right to be consulted on public policy matters before major decisions are made, their right to choose and recall their own representatives and to govern themselves through truly representative and responsible institutions with real grassroots responsiveness, and their right to directly initiate legislation via referenda for which substantial public support is demonstrated.

16. We believe in the accountability of elected representatives to the Ontarian people who elect them and that the duty of elected members to their constituents should supersede their obligations to their political parties.

17. We believe that the legitimate role of government is to do for the Ontarian people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all or do as well for themselves individually, or through non governmental organizations.

18. We believe in public service where governments, civil servants, politicians, and parties exist to serve the Ontarian people, and that they should demonstrate this service commitment at all times.

19. We believe that public money should be regarded by governments as funds held in trust for all Ontarians and that governments should practice fiscal responsibility especially the governmental responsibility to balance expenditures and revenues.

20. We affirm the need to call as Ontarians for the establishment a Triple E Senate in the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, being a Senate which is elected by the people, with equal representation from each province and combined territories, and which is fully effective in counterbalancing and safeguarding regional interests from representation by population in the House of Commons.

21. We believe in true equality, liberty, and freedom of all citizens of Ontario with equal societal rights and responsibilities for all to share together culturally.

Make Ontario Strong! - A Real Alternative for Ontario!



ONTARIO PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC REFORM ASSOCIATION
PARTY DEVELOPMENT POLICIES



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Reform believes that balanced budgets, tax relief, and other key policies for strengthening the private sector are essential to providing Canadians with more and better JOBS. These and other job-creating reforms are presented in the following sections on fiscal and economic reforms.

Fiscal Reform

Job Creation

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the free enterprise function of the market in creating jobs, by allowing industry and business as much opportunity with as little interference to build and create more, consistently with our mantra that with less government intervention comes more economic freedom.

Tax Fairness

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the elimination of special treatment, credits, writeoffs and deductions, especially where the Income Tax Act establishes income or expenditure definitions that do not conform to generally accepted accounting standards.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a taxation policy that has as its principal objective the raising of funds to pay for government programs, and opposes the use of tax concessions as an instrument for manipulating investment behaviour and industry.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports working toward a highly visible and simple progressive flat rate system of taxation.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes any increases in the rate of the federally initiated Harmonized Sales Tax, and favours a staged incremental elimination of this undesired tax as part of an overall program of tax reform and spending restraint once the budget is balanced. In any event, the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association will remove the Harmonized Sales Tax when a highly visible and simple progressive flat rate system of taxation is introduced.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports having the amount of all taxes on any commodity or service clearly identified for the consumer.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a revision of the federal income tax regulations to end discrimination against parents who provide child care at home.

G. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports equitable tax treatment for single income families with dependent children.

H. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a Provincial Tax Increase Alert to use all legal means available to assist Ontarians to resist further provincial tax increases.

I. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports an income tax cut within our existing deficit reduction framework.

J. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports user fees for government services only when users are clearly identifiable, the fees are equitable with all other users of similar services and a comparable amount of government tax is eliminated.

K. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes the collection of fuel taxes, licensing fees and toll levies, and placing them in consolidated revenues. All revenues collected from these taxes should be directed against the actual expenditures of the transport sector where the taxes were collected.

Balanced Budget

A. A Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association Government will introduce legislation mandating government spending limits and requiring that all future increases in total revenue be exceeded by reductions in overall expenditure until the budget is balanced. Such legislation would also require the Government of Ontario to balance the provincial budget in each three year period or to call an election on the issue. The first such period would commence three years from the passage of this legislation.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes the Ontario Provincial Government should not be permitted to run a deficit or to raise tax levels unless authorized by a national referendum.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the adoption of standard accounting principles for government financial reporting, based as closely as possible on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Deficit Reduction

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a general program of expenditure reduction leading to a lower level of taxation, a lower cost of doing business and a lower cost of living, according to the following priorities:

  1. the pay, pensions, and perks of politicians, political parties, and parliamentary institutions;
  2. spending on provincial administration;
  3. federal programs such as official languages, cultural programs, government advertising, advocacy groups, and foreign aid;
  4. subsidies and grants to business and crown corporations;
  5. national defence, by emphasizing increased efficiency and reduced administration, while maintaining Ontario's long term defence objectives; and
  6. social welfare spending by refocusing benefits on those most in need.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association has advocated across the board reductions in federal discretionary spending during high inflationary times to reduce interest rate differentials between Canada and the United States.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports applying both Harmonized Sales Tax revenue and proceeds from the sales of crown assets to a Debt Retirement Fund rather than general revenue.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the periodic evaluation of all statutory programs to determine if the program is being delivered efficiently, whether the objectives are still relevant, are being achieved, or can be achieved in another way.

Parliamentary Spending

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the reexamination of the appointed positions on boards, agencies and councils with the object of eliminating patronage positions, not just individual appointments.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the elimination of federal funding to all special interest groups.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes that federal regional development programs are detrimental to a region and should be gradually eliminated.

Spending Effectiveness

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a new federal budgeting system which rewards programs and departments with incentives, financially or otherwise, for operating more efficiently without impacting government service.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports full access by the Auditor General to all federal financial documents, including, but not limited to, all cabinet documents. Reporting on documents may be limited to the extent that the Auditor General finds necessary for reasons of national security or current confidential negotiations.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports requiring the government of the day and all crown corporations to publicly address all issues raised in the Auditor General's Report.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports developing a federal reporting system that clearly shows the proportion of funds spent on program administration compared to dollars that reach the clients of the program.

Equalization

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reductions to equalization payments in a manner which would refocus equalization payments on the poorest recipient provinces.

Government Procurement

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association favours a government procurement policy based on fairness, price, and quality, rather than on lobbying and political motives.

Government Regulations

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the reduction, simplification and improvement of all government regulations.

Privatization and Crown Corporations

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes governments should not compete with the private sector. We support placing the ownership and control of corporations in the sector that can perform their function most cost effectively, with greatest accountability to owners, and the least likelihood of incurring public debt. We believe that there is overwhelming evidence that this would be the private sector in the vast majority of cases.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the complete privatization of Ontario Corp and applying the proceeds towards the provincial debt.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports private competition in the delivery of .

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports ensuring that rural and remote areas receive services comparable in quality and cost to services in urban areas.

Public Utilities Income Tax Transfer Act

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes citizens of a province who receive services from a private corporation should not be penalized financially by a federal tax policy which treats private corporations differently than crown corporations.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes corporations in the same market should be taxed on an equal basis by the Federal Government.

 

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Reform believes that balanced budgets, tax relief, and other key policies for strengthening the private sector are essential to providing Canadians with more and better JOBS. These and other job-creating reforms are presented in the following sections on fiscal and economic reforms.

Economic Reform

Agriculture

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a self reliant and economically viable agricultural industry which will use market mechanisms, including the free operation of comparative advantage between regions and commodities, free entry into all sectors of production and marketing, and global free trade, to meet the needs of consumers for safe and secure food supplies.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the phased reduction and elimination of all subsidies, support programs, trade restrictions and non tariff barriers in conjunction with other countries and domestic sectors, and the reform of supply price controls in domestic and international agriculture. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association recognizes Canada's multilateral trade obligations to replace import quotas with tariffs at levels sufficient to ensure the ongoing viability of the supply managed sector in the new market driven environment.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association will vigorously use federal safety net programs to support Canadian food producers who are struggling against conditions outside their control, such as foreign subsidies, trade distorting influences, market cycles and natural hazards. To the greatest extent possible, these programs should be production and market neutral, not commodity specific, and available equitably to all sectors.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes that agricultural policies should be sensitive to health, safety, and environmental concerns. They should facilitate market responsive trade and production regulations, assure the application of fair business practices, recognize the necessity of ongoing research incentives focused on resource conservation technologies and sustainable production practices, and encourage better human resource management and training.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports using scientific information to determine if an agricultural or food biotechnology product meets Canadian health and safety requirements. If it does, the acceptability of that product in the marketplace should be determined by consumer choice and not political interference.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association will allow producers to make their own marketing decisions and to direct, structure, and voluntarily participate in producer organizations, including marketing boards, commissions, and cooperatives, in the manner they believe best serves their interests.

G. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports creating an efficient and responsive transportation system which moves Canadian agricultural products to market by any expeditious mode and route, and in any form or state of processing, based exclusively on cost effectiveness for producer and consumer.

H. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports amendments to the Canada Labour Code to include the mechanism of Final Offer Selection arbitration pertaining to those sectors related to agriculture product handling and transportation, and allowing agricultural producers and processors to export products through alternate ports and methods of shipping.

I. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association will make Ontario's agricultural industry more efficient by clarifying funding responsibilities and jurisdictions between the federal and provincial governments, and by eliminating costly interprovincial trade barriers. The Federal Government should accept responsibility for farm support and safety net programs, and the provinces for the development of products for which they have a comparative advantage.

Banking System

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a more competitive banking system, including the presence of regional banks.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports federal legislation protecting Canadians from a monopoly of financial services by any one sector. Particularly, banks should not be allowed to enter further into insurance or auto leasing. A moratorium should be placed on any further partial-deregulation until the financial system can be thoroughly reviewed to increase competition. The review must also ensure the stability of the financial system and prudent regulation to protect consumers.

Domestic Trade and Transportation

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports removing interprovincial trade barriers through provincial agreements that include trade dispute settlement mechanisms. If the provinces fail to cooperate in removing interprovincial trade barriers, the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports constitutional challenges to such impediments wherever possible.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports upgrading transportation and increasing port facilities so that Ontario may capitalize on burgeoning export trade opportunities.

Hydro Electricity and Energy

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports an energy policy based on market mechanisms with the objective of meeting the demands of consumers for safe, secure supplies of energy at competitive prices.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association has supported the elimination of the Green Energy Program despite a period of low oil prices, and will oppose any new Green Energy Program under any circumstances, by any political party, as a fundamental attack on the economic rights of any province or territory and the political unity of this country.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports private sector development of energy mega-projects without Federal Government subsidies, grants, loan guarantees, or special tax treatment. The role of government with respect to mega-projects is to provide the appropriate regulation, including environmental regulation, and to support appropriate infrastructure development.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the integration of energy development and environmental conservation by ensuring that the “cost” of energy development includes the cost of environmental protection, and by supporting energy conservation and the development of alternate energy sources for environmental protection. Where possible, we will rely primarily on marketplace mechanisms to achieve these objectives.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports streamlining administrative and regulatory processes in the energy sector to minimize unnecessary regulatory burden.

Hunting, Fisheries, and Wildlife

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports establishing an economically and environmentally sustainable fisheries industry by:

  1. establishing an independent commission to set sustainable quotas;
  2. limiting the Ministry of Natural Resources and its various conservation authorities' mandate to research, habitat administration, regulation, and enforcement;
  3. securing and enforcing international treaties to conserve the offshore fisheries;
  4. recognizing licence holders' rights and responsibilities to participate in setting objectives of fisheries management.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports international action to stop “drift net” fishing until an agreement on the rational harvesting of world oceans can be reached by all parties.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes entrenching the right to harvest fish commercially in Aboriginal land claim settlements.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports only one commercial fishery with the same rules, regulations and fees for all. Further, there should be no restriction on the transferability of licences.

Industrial Development and Diversification

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports depoliticizing economic decision-making in Canada by eliminating grants, subsidies, pricing policies, and all federal taxes (direct or indirect) on provincial natural resources, except income tax of general application.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports removing all measures that insulate industries, businesses, financial institutions, professions, and trade unions from domestic and foreign competition.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports vigorous measures to ensure the successful operation of the marketplace, such as promoting competition and competitive pricing, and strengthening and vigorously enforcing competition and anti combines legislation, with severe penalties for collusion or price fixing.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports orienting Federal Government activities toward the nurturing of human and physical infrastructure.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports giving greater priority to the development of skills, particularly those that provide future job flexibility such as literacy and computer education. As well, such training should be made more flexible in terms of the type of institution providing the training. We would encourage cooperative training in industry.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that physical infrastructure spending should be based on economic criteria, rather than on the basis of artificial, temporary job creation. The Reform Party opposes the use of infrastructure funds for projects which could be managed better by the private sector based on market considerations. Infrastructure spending should be based on regional fairness criteria.

G. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports development through research aimed at particular industry objectives, particularly private sector research in commercial areas where feasible.

H. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association will create, through minimizing regulation and providing limited coordination and infrastructure, an environment which will encourage private investment to make use of advanced technology in the commercial development of space based industry.

Labour Management Relations

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the right of workers to organize democratically, to bargain collectively and to strike peacefully, towards resolution with their corporate management.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the harmonization of labour management relations and rejects the view that labour and management must constitute warring camps.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the right of all Ontarians, particularly the young, to enter the work force and achieve their potential. Unions and professional bodies may ensure standards, but should not block qualified people from working or from gaining the necessary qualifications.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the right of individual employees to refuse to allow any portion of their union dues to be paid for any cause that the employee does not personally support and which is not related to the function of the union.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the right of all job applicants to be evaluated solely on the basis of merit.

Monetary Policy and Interest Rates

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a monetary policy which promotes a slow, non inflationary and steady growth in the money supply.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes the use of provincial macroeconomic policy to address specific regional microeconomic problems.

Public Service

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the establishment of public service staffing requirements based on the number of workers required to perform necessary functions of government efficiently. Promotion and remuneration should recognize performance, efficiency and merit.

Research and Development

A The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the development of a Canadian science strategy by working with the scientific community to establish stable, long term funding for basic scientific research and improve the management of scientific resources.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports developing a Canadian research and development strategy to facilitate the commercialization of basic research and actively encourage grassroots investment in emerging technologies.

Internet and Telecommunications

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports an internet and telecommunications policy characterized by an open marketplace which is free from undue government interference and maintains and respects individual privacy and intellectual property rights.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a review of the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission's mandate, foreign ownership restrictions, and a commercial open bidding process for telecommunications licences, as appropriate.

 

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Reform believes that balanced budgets, tax relief, and other key policies for strengthening the private sector are essential to providing Canadians with more and better JOBS. These and other job-creating reforms are presented in the following sections on fiscal and economic reforms.

Social Reform

Welfare State Alternatives

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes the view that universal social programs run by bureaucrats are the best and only way to care for the poor, the sick, the old and the young.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports greater compassion in the delivery mechanisms for social policy. We would actively encourage families, communities, non-governmental organizations and the private sector to resume their duties and responsibilities in social service areas.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports focusing social benefits on those who need the help in a rational and compassionate manner.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports greater financial sustainability in social policy and this requires a commitment to sound financial management. No citizen should be denied services because of financial status or inability to pay, but this does not necessitate the full subsidization of those able to pay all or part of the costs themselves.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a more simplified and comprehensive social policy. We believe a simplified income tax system would reveal data enabling governments to determine eligibility for social policies intended to raise the purchasing power of low-income individuals, without complex means or needs tests.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the idea of requiring those recipients of employment insurance and welfare social assistance, who are capable of doing so, to perform community service or job training or to undertake a form of education while receiving benefits.

Income Security and Support

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the development of a family or household oriented comprehensive social security system administered through the income tax system. This could replace many forms of social policy, such as the Spousal Exemption, Child Tax Credit, federal contributions to social assistance payments, retirement plans, federal social housing programs, day care deductions, and minimum wage laws. We will explore existing options such as the guaranteed annual income, security investment fund, and negative income tax.

Canada Pension Plan

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes in ensuring a secure retirement income for all Ontarians. We would protect benefits for current seniors and all CPP contributors and would provide individuals with the means to control and direct their retirement savings through mandatory contributions into self directed Super RRSPs.

Unemployment Insurance

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the return of Unemployment Insurance to its original function — an employer employee funded and administered program to provide temporary income in the event of unexpected job loss.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the immediate elimination of discriminatory Unemployment Insurance elements, such as regional entrance requirements and regionally extended benefit phases, in ways that do not increase the costs of the program.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports investigating the feasibility of replacing the compulsory, government operated, privately funded, taxpayer subsidized Unemployment Insurance program with a voluntary, personally financed, privately administered, government regulated Registered Unemployment Savings Plan.

Education, Training, and the Trades

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes that the Ontario Provincial Government should:

  1. transfer the funding of post secondary education to the provinces as outlined in the “Taxpayers' Budget”;
  2. promote and stimulate research and educational excellence in the national interest through public and private research grants; and
  3. institute a federally funded income-contingent loan plan that is as near to being interest free to students as possible.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports national standards in all levels of education and apprenticeships. Through cooperative interprovincial agreements, the Ontario Provincial Government should foster:

  1. the development of provincial standards in education and vocational training;
  2. stronger partnerships among higher education institutions, professional associations and public authorities, business and other organizations that have a stake in the quality of higher education and research; and
  3. internationalization in post secondary education.

Family

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes that both the business and definition of a family and marriage, traditionally defined as individuals related by blood, marriage or adoption and traditionally defined as a the union of a man and a woman, no longer remain in the privy or recognition by the state respectfully, and other than being used in the provision of spousal benefits for any program funded or administered governmentally, will be the privy of religions, church, and civil communities and society.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association affirms the duty of parents to raise their children responsibly according to their own conscience and beliefs, and further affirms that no person, government, or agency has a right to interfere in the exercise of that duty, as long as the actions of parents do not constitute abuse or neglect.

Child Care

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports childcare programs that subsidize financial need, not the method of child care chosen, and that subsidize children and parents, not institutions and professionals.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes any expenditure increasing childcare initiative in light of the current fiscal situation of the Government of Ontario.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports government regulation of daycare standards.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes state run daycare and believed the family is naturally the best place to care for the child.

Health Care

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the value of Medicare in providing essential, comprehensive national health services, publicly funded, portable across the Province of Ontario and universally accessible to all Ontarians regardless of financial status.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports defining the essential services of Medicare in consultation with users, health care professionals, the provinces, and the Federal Government. Non essential services would not be reimbursed by Medicare.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports freedom to access essential and non essential health care services for all Ontarians, beyond Medicare, if they so choose.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports converting federal cash transfers to the provinces for health into additional “tax points”, which would provide a stable and growing revenue source for longer term provincial funding of Medicare.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the complete rearrangement of the concept of health care insurance, such as: basic deductibles; medisave accounts; choice of insurance coverage; and complete coverage for catastrophic illness.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports adding HIV to the list of infectious, reportable diseases.

Cultural Heritage and Official Languages

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the freedom of Ontarian cultural heritage communities to grow and develop on their own and in their own strength without needless government intervention or regulation, encouraging a cultural free market which offers choice, while lowering costs to consumers as services are provided by those sectors which are able to do so most cost effectively.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a language policy based on freedom of speech. We reject comprehensive language legislation, whether in the nature of enforced bilingualism or unilingualism, regardless of the level of government. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the decision by any individual to participate in multilingualism or bilingualism without interference from the government.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes the concept of Ontario as “a meeting of Two Canadas being its founding races, cultures,and languages” rather believe it an inappropriate description of the reality of the various other distinct society regions across the province, unfair to the vast majority of unilingual Canadians, and completely inconsistent in its own application as an affront to Aboriginal Canadian peoples.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the replacement of the Official Languages Act with a new language law that reflects the demographic reality of Canada and the provinces such as here in Ontario. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports “asking the people”, through a referendum, to approve this new law.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports official bilingualism in key federal governmental institutions around the Capital Region of Ottawa, such as Parliament, the Supreme Court, and in critical federal services in parts of the country where need is sufficient to warrant services on a cost effective basis.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a recognition as the predominant language of home, work, and society of French in Quebec and English in Ontario .

G. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports protection of minority education rights by interprovincial agreement.

H. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports removal of bilingual bonuses to federal public servants as a cost reduction measure.

Multiculturalism

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association stands for the acceptance and integration of immigrants into the mainstream of Ontarian life. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association would focus Federal Government activities on enhancing the citizenship of all Ontarians regardless of race, language, or culture.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes the current concept of multiculturalism and hyphenated Ontarianism pursued by the Government of Ontario. We would end funding of the multiculturalism program and support the abolition of the Department of Multiculturalism.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports and shall uphold the principle that individuals or groups are free to preserve their cultural heritage using their own resources.

Immigration

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports an immigration policy that focuses on the economic needs of Ontario and welcomes genuine refugees. We remain convinced that immigration has been, and can be again, a positive source of economic growth, cultural diversity, and social renewal. Immigrants should possess the human capital necessary to adjust quickly and independently to the needs of Ontarian society and its job market.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes any immigration policy based on race, language, or creed.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports restricting sponsorship privileges to immediate family members, being spouses, minor dependent children, and aged dependent parents. All others should apply for entry through the normal selective process.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports accepting genuine refugees who find their way to Ontario. A genuine refugee has a well founded fear of persecution and qualifies under the strict requirements of the United Nations Convention.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports immediate deportation of bogus refugees and other illegal entrants; persons who promote such activities should be subject to severe penalties without exception. A proposed Constitution may have to be amended to ensure that Ontario Legislature ultimately controls entry into Ontario; in the interim, the Charter's “notwithstanding” provision should be used to ensure this is the case.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes the use of immigration policy to solve the crisis of the welfare state through forced growth population policy. The problem of the pension costs of an aging population is neither caused nor cured by immigration policy.

G. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports submitting all major changes to immigration, including sponsorship requirements and amnesties, to referendum.

H. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports amending the Immigration Act so that a sponsored immigrant must become an Ontarian and Canadian citizen to qualify for social services or health care.

I. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports an immigration policy that requires children born in Ontario and Canada to take the citizenship of their parents. Children born in Ontario and Canada to landed immigrants would assume Ontarian and Canadian citizenship.

J. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that immigration levels should be established at a maximum of 150,000 per year in any year where the unemployment rate exceeds 10%, with increases in immigration as the unemployment rate falls below 10%.

 

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Reform believes that balanced budgets, tax relief, and other key policies for strengthening the private sector are essential to providing Canadians with more and better JOBS. These and other job-creating reforms are presented in the following sections on fiscal and economic reforms.

Environmental Reform

Sustainable Development

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports ensuring that all Ontarians dwell in a clean and healthy environment and also supports sustainable development because, without economic development and the income generated therefrom, the environment will not be protected, preserved, or enjoyed.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes environmental considerations must carry equal weight with economic, social, and technical considerations in the development of a project.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports integrating environmental and economic objectives in management philosophy, structure, procedures, and planning in which the Ontario Provincial Government has constitutional jurisdiction.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the initiation of a public education program of environmentally conscious purchasing while the Ontario Provincial Government should be environmentally conscious in its purchasing and encourage the private sector to do the same.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the Ontario Provincial Government participating in international commissions to regulate clearcutting of forests, ocean transportation of environmentally hazardous materials, and the fishing of international joint waters.

Coordinated Action

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the establishment of clear federal provincial jurisdiction over environmental matters through negotiations with the provinces and also supports the development and application of environmental criteria through a joint federal provincial process where appropriate so as to reduce confusion, duplication, and unnecessary regulation.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports federal leadership and commitment to sustainable development including developing partnerships with provincial governments, private industry, educational institutions, and the public in order to promote meaningful progress in the area of environmental protection and preservation.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the Multipartite Round Table approach to environment and economy, as a means of finding common ground and building consensus, in the development of measures to deal with environmental issues.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports regional development to alleviate concentrated areas of industrial activity and population.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the development of acceptable environmental regulations through consultation and cooperation between industry and the public. The government should be directed to enforce these regulations firmly, fairly, and equally.

Pollution Control

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports setting a specified time frame to ensure that water discharged from industrial plants will be of equal or better quality than water taken into the plant for use, and that gaseous emissions will not contain any harmful ingredients.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a country wide program to improve municipal sewage treatment involving tertiary treatment facilities wherever possible.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports immediate long term restoration programs for areas of the environment damaged due to inadequate or improperly enforced regulations.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the principle that the polluter shall pay for its pollution controls, that this be stringently enforced in an unbiased manner, and that penalties be severe enough that polluters will not consider them a “licence fee” to pollute.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports fines and jail sentences for officers and executives of companies violating environmental laws.

Environmentally Sensitive Zoning

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the concept of “environmentally sensitive zoning.”

 

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Years of traditional party government, characterized by broken promises and unfulfilled commitments have destroyed the faith of Canadians in political promises and platforms. How can that faith be restored? By political reform designed to give the people themselves the democratic tools to hold their politicians accountable and force governments to keep their commitments. These political reforms, designed to establish political transparency, will be effective tool for you the citizen to hold them accountable.

Political Reform

Recall

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports allowing constituents to initiate a recall procedure against their M.P.P. if they believe they have violated their oath of office.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes a recall petition must contain the names, addresses, and signatures of electors ordinarily resident in the member's electoral district. The number required for a successful petition should be low enough to permit recall to be a genuine incentive to act in a representative manner, but high enough to prevent its misuse.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association advocates that no recall application shall be accepted until at least twelve months after the most recent election, to avoid misuse, unless a M.P.P. has misrepresented material facts about himself or herself during that election.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association advocates that only one submission for the recall of any one M.P.P. shall be accepted during the term of a Legislature.

Referenda and Citizens Initiative

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a law guaranteeing the right of the people to initiate binding referenda on new provincial legislation and constitutional amendments and on the repeal of any existing law or constitutional amendment as citizens of the province.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a direct participatory democratic process without partisanship or suppression of opinion on the following:

  1. Important Issues of Provincial Cultural and Heritage identified by the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association to be issues such as immigration, language, and measurement which falling into this category.
  2. Important Issues of Personal Conscience and Belief identified by the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association to be issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment which falling within this category.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association will employ the following process by its Members of Provincial Parliament on issues designated by the Reform Party Assembly to be “Important Issues of Personal Conscience and Belief” — or “Important Issues of Provincial Cultural and Heritage” — that is on issues where there exists among Ontarians a sharp divide and divergence of intensely held, value based personal convictions — the following process will be employed by Reform Members of Provincial Parliament to decide public policy:

  1. Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association M.P.P.s will state clearly and publicly their personal views and beliefs on the issue;
  2. Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association M.P.P.s will ask their constituents in the riding to develop, to express, and to debate their own views on the matter;
  3. following such a process of second sober thought, Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association M.P.P.s will seek the consensus of the constituency on the issue via town hall meetup or postcard mail out or telephone call poll; and
  4. balancing the 3 Cs of party constitution and charter of the nation, the knowledge, judgement, and conscience of the Reform M.P.P. as expressed in accordance with their publicly recorded statements on the issue, and the consensus of the expressed will of a majority of the constituents regarding the issues at hand, where all three are in conflict on related government legislation in the Ontario Legislative Assembly, the party recommends Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association M.P.P.s will faithfully vote the consensus of the expressed will of a majority of the constituents in their constituency in the appropriate divisions of the Ontario Legislative Assembly if such a consensus on the issue exists.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes the number of signatures needed to initiate a referendum should not represent an insurmountable barrier, but should be high enough to prevent frivolous referendum questions from being placed on the ballot. Based on the experience of other jurisdictions, a petition signed by a number of voters representing not less than three percent of the total votes cast in the most recent federal election is reasonable.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes that, if possible, referendum issues should be placed on the ballot concurrently with a general provincial election. However, since some issues are too urgent to be delayed until election time, all referenda initiated by petition should be held within two years of the petition being submitted.

G. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports legislation that ensures referenda are conducted in the fairest and most non partisan manner possible. In particular, the Ontario Provincial Government should be forbidden from placing “counterinitiatives” on the same ballot as an initiative question.

H. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports restricting the ability of the Canadian Federal government to invoke section 33 of the Constitution Act, 1982, the “Notwithstanding” Clause, so that Supreme Court rulings striking down federal laws can only be overridden by the federal government if authorized by a majority of Canadians in a national referendum.

Real Responsible Representation in Legislature

A. Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association M.P.P.s votes in the Ontario Legislature by the 3 Cs they were elected to represent:

  1. the constitution, principles, policies, and platform of the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association on which the M.P.P. has been elected;
  2. the voice, views and interests of constituents in the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association M.P.P.'s riding, in particular the consensus among constituents, if such a consensus by a majority can be determined; and
  3. the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association M.P.P.'s own knowledge, judgement, and conscience regarding the issues at hand. For Reform M.P.P.s, where all three Cs are in conflict, the recommends voting upon legislation in accordance to “the consensus of the expressed will of a majority of the constituents”; which should always takes precedence.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association pledges that, having had a full opportunity to express and voice their views and vote freely unwhipped in Caucus, Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association M.P.P.s shall vote according to the unwhipped majority agreed upon Caucus position in the Ontario Legislature except under the following conditions:

  1. when an Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association M.P.P. can demonstrate that a majority of their constituents have instructed them to vote otherwise;
  2. when the issue has been designated by the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association Assembly to be an “Important Issues of Provincial Cultural and Heritage” or “Important Issue of Personal Conscience and Belief” or
  3. when the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association Caucus explicitly decides that the issue should be decided by a free unwhipped vote.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports changing Legislative rules to allow free votes in the Legislature. We believe that the defeat of a government measure in the Ontario Legislative Assembly should not automatically mean the defeat of the government. Defeat of a government motion should be followed by a formal motion of non confidence, the passage of which would require either the resignation of the government or dissolution of the Legislature for a general election.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association Caucus make public its voting record on government legislation at the end of the yearly legislative reporting period.

Electoral Reform

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports holding elections every four years at a fixed predetermined time of year. If a government were defeated in the House of Commons, an unfixed election would be called immediately. The subsequent election would be four years from the same predetermined time of the year.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports requiring byelections be held within six months of a seat becoming vacant.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes any assistance to provincial political parties and political lobbies from public funds, including any refund of candidate or party expenses, government advertising during the electoral period, the “renting” of Legislative staff for reimbursement, tax credits for contributions to provincial political parties, and the transfer of tax credits to leadership or nomination campaigns, or to municipal parties.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports amendments to the Elections Act Ontario to ensure that only eligible voters are enumerated, cast only one ballot, and provide proof of identification before voting. The power to challenge eligibility would also be returned to electoral officers and scrutineers at polling stations.

Parliamentary Reform

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports repealing sections of the Elections Act Ontario which make M.P.P.s beholden to their party executive or leader rather than their constituents such as the provisions for the signing of nomination papers.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports amending the M.P.P.s' oath of office such that they swear or affirm allegiance to their Queen, their constituents, and to the Province of Ontario and the Dominion of Canada.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports restrictions on the number and types of Orders in Council permitted by a government during its term of office. In the interim, Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association M.P.P.s will strive to make Legislative committees effective in reviewing any regulations before implementation.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association will insist that all laws applying to individuals and the private sector apply equally to the Government of Ontario, its personnel, its agencies, and the Legislature.

M.P.P. Pensions and Perks Packages

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes the current pension schemes for Members of Provincial Parliament. We if ever in government would end full indexation of these pensions, postpone eligibility for benefits until at least age 60, and further postpone eligibility by the amount of time in which the person has already been paid prior to age 60. We would subject the M.P.P. pension to a tax back according to a formula identical to that of the Old Age Security.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the provision of pensions for M.P.P.s only if those pensions are no more generous than private sector norms and meet all requirements for a registered plan under the Income Tax Act. Reformers also support using an independent body to make binding recommendations to Legislature with regard to M.P.P. pensions, and that these recommendations be applied to the future benefits paid to both retired and currently sitting Members.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a reexamination of M.P.P.s' and Senators' expense allowances, free services, staff privileges and limousines in light of private sector standards and the failure of M.P.P.s to reform the Ontario Legislative Assembly. Until a balanced budget is achieved, the salaries and expenses of government M.P.P.s and their offices should be frozen.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes paying multiple salaries to M.P.P.s who are also cabinet ministers or committee chairs, or who hold other Legislative positions.

 

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Reform believes that balanced budgets, tax relief, and other key policies for strengthening the private sector are essential to providing Canadians with more and better JOBS. These and other job-creating reforms are presented in the following sections on fiscal and economic reforms.

Judicial Reform

Family Violence

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association recognizes that child abuse and family violence attack the very foundations of organized society. The Party supports enacting, communicating, and enforcing laws that protect family members against such acts. Effective programs aimed at prevention of family violence will be a priority.

Young Offenders

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports repealing the Young Offenders Act and establishing a definition of juvenile offender within the Criminal Code. Until such time, the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports amending the Young Offenders Act, so that it will:

  1. include only young offenders aged 10 to 15. Serious offenders aged 14 and 15 and offenders 16 and over should be tried as adults;
  2. permit public access to court proceedings in cases involving 14 and 15 year-old offenders, and in cases where the public's right to know supersedes the need to protect the youth's identity;
  3. maintain separate young offenders' facilities which emphasize education, skills training, discipline, and community service. The records of young offenders should be treated similarly to the criminal records of adults;
  4. hold parents of young offenders financially responsible to victims where lack of reasonable parental control has proven to be a factor contributing to the offence.

Victims Justice

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a judicial system which places the punishment of crime and the protection of law abiding citizens and their property ahead of all other objectives.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that the right of citizens to use all reasonable means to protect themselves and their property against criminal acts should have priority over the rights of the offender.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports granting victims of crime official standing in court and parole hearings, and requiring courts and parole boards to review victim impact statements before sentencing. To the greatest extent possible, victims should be compensated by offenders for financial loss resulting from criminal acts.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a provincial Victims' Bill of Rights, which would restore a balance within the criminal justice system by placing the rights of victims above the rights of the criminal.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports greater certainty in sentencing by introducing a sentencing guideline grid in the Criminal Code. Some low risk offenders should have access to reduced sentences by successfully completing a regimented life enhancement program.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports adding a new definition to the Criminal Code which deems any person who commits on two or more separate occasions an offence causing serious personal injury a dangerous offender and subject to an indeterminate period of imprisonment.

G. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes granting voting privileges to convicted prisoners.

H. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports amending the Criminal Code to allow police with probable cause to demand DNA samples from crime suspects.

I. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reviewing the right of judges to place publicity bans on trials.

J. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports repealing section 745 of the Criminal Code. All persons convicted of first degree murder should be imprisoned for life, with no chance of parole or conditional release in any form for twenty five years.

K. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports legislation that prevents criminals from collecting damages from private citizens for injuries sustained during a criminal act, including injuries resulting from a victim's attempt at self defence, which includes any justified use of force.

L. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association would support legislation that would allow the publication of the names of all convicted offenders including young offenders.

M. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports eliminating the immigration appeal process for non-citizens convicted of an indictable offence. Offenders should be deported once convicted or after serving their sentence, as determined by the court.

N. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes that any adult convicted of helping a young offender commit a crime should pay the same penalty as if the adult committed the crime personally. Adults contributing to the delinquency of a minor should also be charged.

O. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports legislation requiring criminals to serve sentences for multiple convictions consecutively not concurrently.

Firearms

A. An Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association Government will introduce legislation to severely punish the criminal misuse of firearms and protect the right of law abiding citizens to own and use firearms.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association recognizes the need for broad public consultation in formulating firearm legislation, including opinions of law enforcement officers, informed firearms owners, and other Ontarians.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports repealing all gun control legislation and replacing it with a workable practical alternative, which will include severe automatic penalties for those who use firearms in criminal acts, plea bargaining on firearms offences will not be allowed.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports mandatory training and testing for first time owners prior to obtaining a firearm.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes measures which permit the government to confiscate legally obtained firearms from law abiding citizens. The Reform Party opposes changes to firearms legislation through Order in Council.

Parole

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports requiring violent offenders to serve their full sentences. Once released, some violent offenders and all repeat offenders should be under parole supervision, for the rest of their lives.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports permitting low risk inmates to participate in civic or business projects which enhance their skills and prepare them for productive life after release. Day parole should only be granted to non violent offenders attending projects within the community. A portion of the money earned from such work should be directed towards victim compensation. Early release and parole should be directly related to successful participation in work projects.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports amending the Criminal Code to adopt a specific sexual predator law that ensures continued monitoring, even after such convicts are released from custody. Prior to release, sexual predators should be examined by a panel of experts, to certify that the offender does not pose a threat to society.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes the selection of parole board members on the basis of patronage. Parole board members should be chosen based on merit and should be properly trained in the justice process.

Court System

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports replacing the current system of appointing federal judges with an accountable, democratic, and meritocratic method.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes that Ontario and the provincial legislature, rather than the Prime Minister, should make appointments to the Supreme Court and all courts where judges are currently appointed by the Federal Government. Appointments would be ratified by a Triple E Senate, and would be considered acceptable only if they have been made by a vote of the legislature, rather than by means of selection by the premier or provincial government.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports adequate regional representation on the Supreme Court.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports appointing Supreme Court justices for fixed, non renewable terms of ten years.

Ontario Provincial Police

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the traditional role of the Ontario Provincial Police as a police force representative of and responsive to the populations it serves in Ontario's regions.

 

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Reform believes that balanced budgets, tax relief, and other key policies for strengthening the private sector are essential to providing Canadians with more and better JOBS. These and other job-creating reforms are presented in the following sections on fiscal and economic reforms.

Constitutional Reform

Triple E Senate

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association fully endorses the Triple E Senate concept, being a Senate which has equal representation from each province, which is fully effective in safeguarding regional interests, and is elected by the people.

Equality

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association affirms the equality of every individual before and under the law and the right to equal protection and benefit of the law. We believe all federal legislation should reflect this principle of equality which is negated by granting rights to groups.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the judicial interpretation of the equality guarantee in Section 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms as mandating equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome.

Charter of Rights and Freedoms

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association proposes that all amendments and changes to the original Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be approved in a national referendum.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports amending the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to recognize the right of every person to own, use, and enjoy property including real, intellectual, and personal property, and to contract freely. The Charter should state that no person shall be deprived of the ownership, use or enjoyment of property or contract without full, just, and timely compensation and the due process of law.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the inclusion, in this amendment to the Charter, of an additional provision stating that in matters of property, contract, and commerce, individuals shall be assured of all the procedural protections guaranteed by Sections 7 to 14 of the Charter.

D. An Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association Government, as a first step towards the formal entrenchment of property rights in the Charter, would use the unilateral amending formula under Section 44 of the Constitution Act, 1982 to limit the Canadian Federal Government's ability to restrict property rights. This limitation would be binding only on the Federal Government.

Constitutional Amendments

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that Canada should remain a single united country and that unity can only be maintained by a clear commitment to Canada as one united nation, in which the demands and aspirations of all regions are entitled to equal status in constitutional negotiations and political debate.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a grassroots bottom up process of public consultation in any constitutional negotiations including electing delegates to Constitutional Conventions at provincial or regional levels.

C. An Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association Government will introduce a motion in the Ontario Legislature stating that in the future, the Parliament of Canada shall not vote on any constitutional amendment affecting all of Canada, including any changes to the original Charter of Rights and Freedoms, unless that amendment has been approved in a national referendum.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the replacement of the various existing formulae for amending different parts of the Constitution, with amending formulae that replace the ratification power of Parliament and the provincial legislatures with that of the people, as expressed in binding referenda.

Regional Fairness Tests

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports public analysis of the regional distribution of all federal funds as a routine legislative process as distribution would be analyzed regionally on an east west and north south basis.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the calculation of federal provincial transfer payments including economic rents from hydroelectric activities as provincial revenue against equalization.

Status of the Combined Territories

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the right of the Territories to achieve full provincial status.

Aboriginal Affairs

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports beginning a new relationship with Aboriginal peoples of Canada with a Constitutional Convention of Aboriginal representatives from across Canada to discuss the application of Reform Party policy.

B. The ultimate goal in Aboriginal matters for the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association, is that all Aboriginal people be full and equal participants in Canadian citizenship as original First Nations members, yet indistinguishable in law and treatment from other Canadians.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports fully honouring treaties according to their original intent and various Court decisions. Property owners forced to defend their property rights as a result of Aboriginal land claims will be compensated for defence of the claim.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports keeping the administration of First Nations Indian and Inuit affairs with the Federal Government while non status Indians and Metis will remain under provincial jurisdiction.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that any form of Aboriginal self government will be a delegated form of government and all lands within the borders of the nation will remain part of the Dominion of Canada. The laws of Canada, and its Provinces and combined Territories, including the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms will apply to Aboriginal governments. Any laws enacted by Aboriginal governments must conform with the laws of Canada.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association advocates for the Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada to have authority over Aboriginal governmental elections.

G. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the settlement of land claims will be negotiated publicly and all settlements will outline specific terms, be final, and conclude within a specific time frame. Final settlements will be affordable to Canada, its Provinces and combined Territories.

H. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains the public disclosure of the value and extent of all current land claims as a first step in addressing Aboriginal land claims.

I. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association advocates that Aboriginal governments will over time be obligated to fund their operations from within their own communities. Individuals and communities should be free to choose whether they wish to support Aboriginal political organizations.

J. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports giving the Auditor General of Canada full authority to review the management of federal funds by Aboriginal governments.

K. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the right of individuals living on reserves and eligible for government benefits to choose to receive those benefits either directly from the Federal Government or through Aboriginal government.

L. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the right of individuals entitled to reside on settlement lands to choose to hold their entitlement privately or in common.

M. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports eliminating the taxation exemption under the Indian Act of Canada as Aboriginal economic conditions improve.

N. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports viewing new land settlements or self government agreements in the context of “One Canada” being equality for and among all persons. Therefore, the Indian Act of Canada will be repealed and replaced by legislation, respecting the above stated principles.

 

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Reform believes that balanced budgets, tax relief, and other key policies for strengthening the private sector are essential to providing Canadians with more and better JOBS. These and other job-creating reforms are presented in the following sections on fiscal and economic reforms.

National Unity

Decentralization and the Equality of all the Provinces for One United Canada

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association commits itself to rebuilding our national home through the creation of a new and better Canada built on solid foundations that include equality for all provinces and citizens, renewed democracy in our political system, financial responsibility by governments, affordable social programs, an effective and accountable criminal justice system, conservation of our environment, respect for cultural diversity, and productive relations with other peoples of the world.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the renewal of the Canadian confederation as a more balanced federation, in which the arsenal of centralizing powers at the hands of the Federal Government and the over concentration of power in the hands of the executive and Cabinet are placed under reasonable restraints. Legislative authority should rest with the level of government able to govern most effectively in each area, with a bias towards decentralization in cases of uncertainty.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports equality for all provinces, special status for none, and a strong continuing role for the Federal Government to maintain a common economic space, eliminate internal trade barriers, and represent Canada effectively in international trade negotiations.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the principle that the provinces should have exclusive jurisdiction over apprenticeship programs, culture, education, health, housing, language, manpower training, natural resources, sport fishing, sports & recreation, social assistance and tourism. Canada would field a single team at international sports competitions.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports legally entrenched measures that would forbid the Canadian Federal Government from using its “spending power” to interfere in areas of provincial jurisdiction.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that the role of the Federal Government in provincially run social programs such as education, health and social assistance should be to develop national standards through cooperative agreements rather than to impose standards unilaterally and withhold transfer payments when these standards are not met.

G. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the establishment of an agreement to replace federal cash grants to the provinces with unconditional transfers of the tax base of each province, adjusted for differential provincial economic development so that the provincial tax revenues collected in each province will grow in parallel with the growth in the economy and population of the Province of Ontario. This will allow the content and particulars of provincial policy to be set by provincial governments clearly accountable to the electorate of that province.

H. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the strengthening of the role of municipal governments in the delivery of essential services, as a decentralization measure.

I. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports legal measures prohibiting the Federal Government from funding private court challenges of provincial laws.

J. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the abolition of the federal power to strike down provincial laws, “disallowance” and “reservation”, and to legislate under the professed “declaratory power”, in areas of provincial jurisdiction.

K. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the adoption of a process whereby appointments to the Board of Directors of the Bank of Canada would be made by the provincial legislatures rather than by the Prime Minister.

L. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the adoption of a process whereby the Lieutenant Governor of each province would be selected by the provincial legislature rather than by the Prime Minister.

Secession Contingency Plans

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, the Canadian Government should be guided in any negotiations by three principles: democratic legitimacy, the rule of law and the primacy of the interests of Canada.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, any secession negotiations should take into account the interests of Canada's remaining provinces.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, the Canadian Government should insist upon the right of citizens within that province, including Aboriginal peoples, to remain part of Canada and to petition Parliament for that purpose. Boundary changes would be based on local referendum results.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, unless a negotiated settlement satisfactory to Canada were achieved, if applicable, all current marine resources should remain Canadian.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, the Canadian citizenship and Canadian passports of the people of that province choosing to leave Canada should be revoked.

F. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, that that province should pay a share of the federal debt equivalent to its share of Canada's population.

G. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, to ensure creditor confidence, any disputes over payment of the debt should be resolved by international arbitration.

H. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, all moveable federal assets located in that province should remain the property of Canada. The Canadian Government should seek to maximize its return from any disposal of moveable or fixed assets.

I. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, that province could use the Canadian dollar but should have no say in Canadian monetary policy.

J. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, foreign governments should not be permitted to recognize the independence of that province prior to the Federal Government having done so.

K. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, the Canadian Government would retain its veto over that province's participation in international trade agreements and should exercise this veto in the event of a unilateral declaration of independence.

L. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, Canada should not participate in the development of any bilateral trade deals with that province unless they are in Canada's interest.

M. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, if applicable, the Canadian Government should insist on full, unhindered rights of transportation and transmission across the territory of that province joining Canadians from coast to coast and sea to seas.

N. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, the Canadian Government should require that the province enter into no international agreements which compromise Canadian security or current defence treaty obligations of the nation.

O. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, all fixed military assets in that province should be disposed of by Canada on terms acceptable to Canada. All movable assets would remain Canadian property and would be removed from that province at the convenience of Canada.

P. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, the final terms and conditions of secession should be ratified by all Canadians in a referendum.

Q. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association maintains that in the event that a province secedes, the Canadian Federal Government should affirm that this province would have no prospect of reentry into Confederation, except on terms and conditions wholly satisfactory to Canada.

 

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Reform believes that balanced budgets, tax relief, and other key policies for strengthening the private sector are essential to providing Canadians with more and better JOBS. These and other job-creating reforms are presented in the following sections on fiscal and economic reforms.

External Relations

International Trade

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports free trade in principle, in its most fairest and balanced format, seeking partnerships with nations that support foreign policy guided by the values and principles of Canadians, being political democracy, economic freedom, health and safety standards, environmental and educational, labour, and basic human rights.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports making free trade work to Canada's greater advantage by removing interprovincial trade barriers, lowering the tax burden, and shifting emphasis from welfare to retraining and technological development.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports amending the Canada United States Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement to maintain sovereign, exclusive, and unrestricted Canadian control of Canadian water, land, and air in all forms.

D. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a comprehensive effort to realign Canada's economic policies to be consistent with our international trade requirements. This realignment must include industrial development, science and research, regulatory, taxation, transportation, political democracy, economic freedom, health and safety standards, environmental and educational, labour, basic human rights, and fiscal and monetary policies.

E. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports forming interprovincial trade groups to promote external trade relations, beginning with Five Eyes Alliance countries.

National Defence

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the maintenance of a professional, well-equipped, and sufficiently strong Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard to:

  1. assert Canada's political, economic, and environmental sovereignty over its entire territory;
  2. continue our participation in North American Aerospace Defense Command, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and United Nations, or any similar organization which is likely to be created in the near future;
  3. participate in international peacekeeping missions when and where the need arises;
  4. provide fast, efficient, and readily available search and rescue capability, where needed; and
  5. provide a fast response to national or international conflicts, where required, and assistance to civil authorities during natural or manmade disasters.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the development of defence policies based on:

  1. greater reliance on reserves;
  2. adaptable and general purpose equipment;
  3. reduced overhead for bases and headquarters;
  4. careful and specified commitments to alliances, including North American Aerospace Defense Command, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and United Nations peacekeeping efforts; and
  5. lower costs.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the maintenance of reserves equal to the number of regular troops in the military force and guarantees for reservists keeping their jobs safe upon returning from training and or active duty.

Foreign Affairs

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports foreign policy guided by the values and principles of Canadians being political democracy, economic freedom, health and safety standards, environmental and educational, labour, and basic human rights. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association will strive for greater integrity and consistency in the application of Canadian policy abroad and at home.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a review of participation in international organizations by Canada and would remain in organizations that are effective, efficient, and accountable in promoting the international interests of the nation.

C. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports restructuring the Canadian International Development Agency to provide it with a legislative mandate and make it smaller and more accountable. To ensure that the Canadian International Development Agency supports the priorities of grassroots Canadians, contribution to Canadian non governmental organizations should match, but not exceed, the privately raised funds of those organizations.

Foreign Aid

A. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a reduction in foreign aid, particularly in government to government grants and low interest loans, until the federal deficit and debt are under control. Current foreign aid policy for Canada should encourage individuals and private organizations to fund and administer foreign aid and should emphasize the provision of Canadian goods and services rather than direct financial aid.

B. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association opposes Canadian Federal Government foreign aid to governments which suppress foreign policy guided by the values and principles of Canadians, being political democracy, economic freedom, health and safety standards, environmental and educational, labour, and basic human rights.

 

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Reform makes public all policy coming from its membership in a DRAFT selection before taking it up in an official vote amongst its membership represented by delegates at their assembly before making it officially that of the party.

Draft Reform Policy

Stronger Economic Growth with Real Jobs for all Ontarians from Suburban to Rural to Northern Ontario

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Protecting Taxpayers with Lower Taxes and Less Waste in Governmental Spending from Toronto

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Reducing Debt and Deficit towards a Balanced Budget Provincially in Ontario

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Preserving our Families, Children, and Elderly Ontarians for the Future

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Strengthening Ontario Health and Long Term Care, Education and Training, and Infrastructure

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Conserving our Environment, Electricity, Energy and Renewable Natural Resources in Ontario

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Respecting Social Responsibilities and Rights of Ontarians with Choice

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Maintaining Safety, Security, and Criminal Justice Fairness for Ontarians

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Supporting Senatorial, Parliamentary, and Democratic Reform and Renewal in Ontario

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Promoting National Unity and Intergovernmental Constitutional Reform for a Stronger Canada for all Ontarians

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Ontario’s Families

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Ontario’s Fairness, Equality, and Better Government

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Ontario’s Community Safety, Honesty, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics

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Ontario’s Affordability and Economy

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Ontario’s Seniors and Health

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Ontario’s Agriculture and Rural Communities

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Ontario’s North

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Fiscal Reform

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Economic Reform

1. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes the family is the most important resource in Ontario.

2. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes the Ontario government has a responsibility to foster and protect an environment in which the individual skills of family members are developed to their full potential.

3. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes that only in a free enterprise economy that the creation of wealth takes place and productivity is best achieved.

4. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association government would increase the personal and spousal income tax exemption for Ontario income tax purposes to $14,000/year.

5. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association government would grant the highest income spouse an additional specified income tax exemption for each of the taxpayer's dependent children provided that these children do not have any earned income of their own.

6. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the long term removal of all measures that insulate industries, businesses, financial institutions, professions, and trade unions from domestic and foreign competition.

7. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports orienting activities of the Ontario government towards the nurturing of human and physical infrastructure for economic development.

8. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the development of skills and knowledge, especially in the emerging technologies, would encourage cooperative training in industry.

9. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports development through research aimed at particular industrial and commercial objectives.

10. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports believes that government should set a good example to private industry in its employment practices as employment should be on the basis of competence and merit.

11. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reconsidering the legislation on pay equity, employment equity, and labour relations, with the intent of creating a better, nonconfrontational economic climate and favoring business investments, as job applicants should be evaluated solely on the basis of merit.

12. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports creating a responsible free enterprise climate, with government intervention limited to the enforcement of responsibilities of the entrepreneur, in such areas as work safety and protection of the environment.

13. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reforming the school system, to prepare young people for assuming the challenge of change and the responsibility for innovation, to create a vibrant economy in Ontario.

14. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports requiring government to reduce its deficit each year by at least 20%, when failing that, the Premier must call an election immediately.

15. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reviewing nongovernmental agencies receiving public funding, if they can be sustained by private donations, government funding would be eliminated.

16. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports helping the private sector to create jobs by reducing taxes to stimulate investment and increase the buying power of the average Ontario citizen.

17. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports working towards the elimination of universal assistance programs at the federal level, while provincially, maintain only universal assistance program for the people in immediate and real need.

18. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports rescinding social assistance to minors who can be supported by their parents and who are not physically or mentally disadvantaged.

19. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports removing the special privileges of politicians and eliminate those benefits that cushion them against taxes and inflation.

20. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the right for employees to refuse to allow any portion of their union dues to be paid to any cause which they do not personally support outside of the contract agreement with their employer.

21. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports improving the quality of education so everyone will be equipped with adequate job related skills for the 21st century.

22. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the removal of interprovincial barriers, so that more goods and services can flow freely, thereby making the employment of more Ontarian people and promotion of products and services from Ontario to other countries a priority.

23. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes that the family farm is one of the basic building blocks of Ontarios economy, thus legislation to both protect and encourage the development of agriculture will insure the stability of rural communities, and help ensure that there will be a continued good supply of quality produce at affordable prices.

24. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports eliminating the Land Tax Rebate, by removing the education portion of taxes from agricultural land, and add education taxes to taxable incomes.

25. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports proposing Right to Farm legislation, where the farming sector must be free to operate responsibly, without interference regarding standard farm operating practices.

26. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports promoting the responsible management of livestock waste, to protect our water resources from contamination; protecting existing land in agricultural use from urban and industrial expansion; continuing to support the responsible use of approved chemicals in agriculture.

27. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports allowing farmers to opt out of time of use energy pricing.

28. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports cutting fees on agricultural land sales and eliminating the tax on farm purchases for continued agricultural land use.

29. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports revising Bill 36, Local Food Act, to improve collection and distribution of fresh produce from family farms .

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Social Reform

1. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes Ontario has a universal Medicare system which provides a substantial buttress against unexpected disease related expenses for all citizens, as Ontarians enjoy an enviable standard of living, and it is the responsibility of government to promote healthy lifestyles, maintain a high quality of healthcare facilities and guarantee accessibility to them.

2. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports gradually introduce the Medical Savings Account system (MSA) in Ontario. The health care commitments promised by the government to seniors will continue to be honored. $2,000 per year is earmarked in an MSA account for every adult person in Ontario; All children and youth up to the age of 18 will receive full medical care coverage by the government; Money from the MSA account will be transferred to hospitals when healthcare services are actually used by this person (up to $2,000); The money in the MSA account cannot be spent or used by the individual, until the end of the year, when any amount leftover in the MSA is rolled into the individual's locked-in, non-transferable RRSP, at which time the RRSP rules take over, with the exception that these funds may not be withdrawn until age 65; If the MSA amount is exhausted, then no amount is rolled over into the individual's RRSP; The government will pay premiums for a High Deductible Health Insurance (HDHI) with a $2000 deductible for each individual over the age of 18; Each individual can choose to replace the government insurance with his own Insurance, with equal or greater coverage than the one provided by the government; (in both cases) Insurance premiums for basic care (standard amount) are paid by the government through general revenue.

3. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that private healthcare outside of essential public healthcare, such as elective procedures, must be totally paid by the individual.

4. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports not using public funds for non essential private healthcare procedures such as abortion, euthanasia, and sex change gender reassignment operations.

5. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the expansion of programs for midwives in teams with doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, for salaried service, in Rural and Northern Ontario areas, and in those communities where the local hospital board deems it necessary.

6. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports ensuring that consumers have a choice between nonprofit and private homecare agencies as strict standards must be maintained by the government.

7. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports requiring that the members of hospital boards and two thirds of the members of district health councils be elected in conjunction with municipal elections.

8. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports removing the restriction on the number of salaried medical teaching positions in Ontario universities.

9. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports ending coverups of information by the medical profession, when that information is necessary to protect the health of the public, such as include the information related to the transmission of viruses (HPV/HIV), the link between abortion and breast cancer, and the inadequacy of condoms against some viruses for example.

10. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports working in cooperation with the federal government to remove present legal obstructions against physicians who have graduated outside Canada, and permit them to practice in Canada after passing the appropriate Canadian examinations and after having spent a designated time in an approved hospital under supervision; allowing foreign physicians and nurses to obtain post graduate training in Canada; stopping the restriction on the number of salaried medical teaching positions in Ontario universities; removing the requirement from the Royal Colleges of Physicians for students to opt for general practice or a specific specialty early in their training career.

11. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports eliminating any ceiling on doctors fees.

12. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports allowing every person receiving OHIP benefits to receive an itemized account of the cost of such benefits.

13. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports recognizing the right of individual healthcare workers to refuse to participate in any procedure which is contrary to their moral conviction or religion, as declared by them at the time of employment, would ensure that healthcare workers would not be unjustly discriminated against and that they would have legal protection if pressured to act against their own conscience.

14. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports introducing HIV antibody screening prior to marriage, on admission to any Ontario hospital, and upon incarceration in any Ontario correctional facility.

15. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports funding hospitals through a formula based more closely on the actual services rendered, exceptions will apply for medical treatments lasting indefinitely, this formula will be standardized across Ontario.

16. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports strengthening the Underserviced Areas Training Program (UATP) providing tuition, books, and living expenses for each year of medical school in exchange for an equal number of years in underserviced areas such as Rural and Northern Ontario.

17. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports providing incentives for private enterprise to build and maintain more nursing homes with strict standards must be maintained by the government.

18. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports increasing the number of cancer centers in Ontario and will make sure that there are enough specialists and technologists who can deal with the growing need for cancer treatment.

19. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports providing and making available balanced information on preventive medicine, healthy lifestyle, nutrition, natural supplements, and natural medicine, will reduce the total healthcare cost by supporting proven preventive medicine and natural medicine therapies.

20. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports giving preferential support to natural supplements versus chemical drugs whenever similar or better results can be obtained.

21. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reevaluating the role of paramedical people, such as nursing and support staff, in the delivery of patient care.

22. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports setting standards across Ontario for the accounting of hospital costs, of examinations made by each hospital and of budgetary procedures, to reduce accounting fraud and deliver a better quality of care.

23. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the recognition of the essential duty of nurses, especially in acute care, work with hospitals to ensure that patients will not be subject to undue suffering caused by nursing shortages.

24. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the idea that parents should be informed of any medical procedure involving their children.

25. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports pregnant women and is opposed to the termination of pregnancies.

26. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports expanding current government programs in order to extend full support to pregnant women, as needed in the following areas being food, housing, clothing and health needs, will also support those voluntary organizations selected by pregnant women to provide them with lodging and physical security, psychological and spiritual counseling, education, marriage preparation courses, parenting courses and information resources.

27. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports including in the list of procedures covered by Ontario Health Insurance those procedures intervening on children in the womb feasible using current technology and without engaging in extraordinary or experimental interventions such as those where the risk of undesired outcomes far outweighs the possible positive outcomes.

28. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports sizeable additional tax credits for those families that choose to adopt children.

29. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports programs encouraging abstinence in public schools.

30. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports doctors performing abortions in Ontario will be required to inform the patient by providing her with all the information made available to the hospital or private clinic from pro life organizations, in addition the expectant mother shall be required to take and view a sonogram of her baby at a private or public facility accredited with the Ministry of Health.

31. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports doctors performing abortions in Ontario will be required to inform the Ministry of Health of any request for an abortion procedure and will be forbidden to proceed with the abortion for at least 48 hours from such registered time.

32. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports when the applicant for abortion is a minor, the doctor shall require the parents or legal guardians of the expectant mother, to accompany the minor before the abortion request is registered with the Ministry of Health.

33. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that doctors shall be required to report to the government of Ontario any complications deriving from abortion, whether recent or in the past, shall publish this information together with other health care statistics whenever it deems appropriate, but at least once a year..

34. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports making sure that alternatives are found for those workers, such as doctors, nurses, pharmacists, policemen, that for a reason of conscience choose to opt out from a particular detail that relates to injurious elective procedures, such as abortion, euthanasia, female circumcision, and gender sex change reassignment operations, where the intent is not the life and well being of the subjects, but mutilation, injury or death, or decide not to participate in an injurious elective procedure, or choose not to prescribe a drug that relates to injurious elective procedure, will also make sure that such workers are not penalized in any way by their employer for having exercised that choice.

35. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports not using public funds, allow extra billing, or any direct or indirect funding, such as funds collected through lotteries, gambling, or charity, of private facilities performing injurious elective procedures.

36. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports restoring freedom of speech of pro life individuals or groups, including their freedom to demonstrate peacefully in front of hospitals, abortion clinics or any other public place of their choice, in addition will urge the federal government to restore full legal protection to all human beings, from the moment of conception to natural death.

37. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes that choice is to education what competition is to business, as it unleashes the pent-up creativity of educators, in response to consumer demands. Just as competition works to improve quality and lower prices, so taxpayers will save money when parents are allowed to choose in the education marketplace. Choice is the catalyst that will drive other school reforms, it will spark innovations in teaching, management, and learning.

38. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes the entire level of society rises when any of its major institutions strives for excellence, instead of mere adequacy, and choice is the mechanism that makes excellence the goal for education.

39. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports would encourage an educational atmosphere that develops their physical, intellectual, and moral qualities, where students should be encouraged to make sound moral judgment, based on the truth and a well formed conscience.

40. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that schools should be more responsive to the needs of the students.

41. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports placing parents in a decisionmaking role.

42. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports maintaining a healthy competition among schools.

43. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a fixed rate for student loan repayment equal and not greater than the Bank of Canada prime rate.

44. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports parental choice in the school, public or privately owned, and education for their children; the Government of Ontario provides a Child Education Cheque for each child; the Government pays the amount of the Child Education Cheque to the school selected by the parent. This amount (per student/per year) is calculated by dividing the total budget for education in Ontario by the total number of students; each privately owned school is free to set its tuition fee; any excess of the tuition fee over the amount of the Child Education Cheque is borne by the parents; each school must achieve minimum academic standards and curriculum requirements, as set by the Ministry of Education, in order to be certified; each school, in addition to minimum requirements, may add to its curriculum; the Ministry of Education administers standardised tests at grades 5, 8, 10, and at the end of high school. The results are sent to the parents and to the schools and it is their responsibility to act accordingly; will allow homeschooling families to cash any percentage of the education vouchers reserved for their children, to be used for purchasing books and for school expenses.

45. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports will remove from its public school sexual education programs any and all references to all sexual practices in the promoting or propagating such practices, also direct teachers and educators to refrain from promoting such practices or presenting such practices instead of teaching basic curriculum as given.

46. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports directing teachers and educators to refrain from promoting ideas, using books, or using support materials that intentionally or unintentionally may belittle or undermine the authority of parents.

47. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes in a personal and collective responsibility to care and provide for the basic needs of people who are unable to care and provide for themselves.

48. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports social assistance which must provide a broad range of opportunities to promote personal growth and integration into the community, a job, or a self employed occupation, is the preferred form of employment to provide income, and is one of the primary ways in which individuals become integrated and participate in the life and development of their community.

49. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports social assistance programs which should not act as a disincentive for an individual to reach self sufficiency.

50. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports merging the Family Benefits Act and the General Welfare Assistance Act into one piece of legislation with one benefit structure that covers all social assistance recipients.

51. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports opportunity planning to be made available to all people with disabilities, for the broader purpose of community living, including employment.

52. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports positive action to identify social assistance fraud cases where undeserved benefits are received.

53. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports rescinding social assistance to youth under the age of 18 who can be supported by their parents.

54. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports requiring people receiving social assistance, who are capable to do so, to perform community services or to get job training or education, while receiving benefits.

55. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the idea that social assistance recipients should not be forced to give up part of their benefits while receiving income from a part time occupation.

56. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports and encourages private and independent daycare centers.

57. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reimbursing parents in need for daycare expenses up to a prescribed monthly amount, whether for services provided by registered daycare providers, or for them, if they choose to stay at home.

58. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports identifying those parents who are failing to provide support payments to their spouses and require them to comply with the law.

59. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports first home ownership, as the cost of housing directly affects the finances of every family such that many young families and single parents cannot afford stepping into the housing market, even at the lowest level. Many families have no other option but renting, often receiving some form of government assistance, but with no hope of improving their financial situation or creating any equity for themselves.

60. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports helping any families, because of financial need, for without it they are forced to live in environments that are not conducive to raise children.

61. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports introducing new and innovative low cost housing projects, new home buyers may be given the option to invest in a first low cost, low mortgage house and initiate investing, instead of paying rent.

62. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports encouraging private builders to implement such plans, mainly for young families, single parents and senior citizens, and include them, in low proportion, within medium level residential areas.

63. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports in high density urban areas, houses designed with the specific purpose of using the available space both during the day and during the night, as the great reduction in floor space will considerably reduce the total house cost.

64. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports allowing for monthly mortgage payments for such low cost houses that would compare favorably with monthly rental bills.

65. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports encouraging the construction of such houses dispersed in residential areas, by proposing good looking duplex designs that could be placed on standard single lots and appear as single detached houses with one garage.

66. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports encouraging seniors to remain in their own homes..

67. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports right after the supply of houses has substantially increased, gradually phasing out rent controls.

68. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that the family is this country's most important resource, government has a responsibility to foster and protect an environment, in which the individual skills of family members are developed to their full potential.

69. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that the family has an important and necessary role in protecting and nurturing life, this role makes the family, rather than the individual, the basic building block of our society, when families are strong and prosperous, democracy and economic enterprise flourish.

70. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that strong families lessen problems in many areas of society, such as marital separations, child abuse, teenage rebellion leading to alcohol and drug abuse, teenage pregnancies, runaways, school dropouts, vandalism, theft and violence.

71. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that strong family ties and stable relationships are economically and socially beneficial, leading to fewer cases of single parents, better job stability, more productive members of society and decreased welfare costs.

72. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that government has a fundamental obligation to protect and promote the wellbeing of the family and family members through political, economic, social, cultural, and juridical policies, which aim at consolidating the unity and stability of the family.

73. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that parents have the original, primary and inalienable right and duty to educate, discipline and care for their children and therefore must be recognized as the primary caregivers of their children, the state should not push its own political agenda onto children in classrooms.

74. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that a family, defined as those individuals related by ties of blood, marriage, or adoption, is the foundation of Ontarian society, our best social safety net, and the key to our future.

75. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the removal of government involvement and recovery of civil and church communities involvement solemnizing marriages being the union between a woman and a man to the exclusion of all others and other forms of civil union.

76. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports tax laws that must be reformed so as not to discriminate against married couples who wish to have one parent at home to raise their children.

77. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports and defends and promotes the family unit as the fundamental building block of our society.

78. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports and respects the dignity, lawful independence, privacy, integrity and stability of every family and the benefits of stable relationships.

79. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports introducing proven programs to reduce family violence which attacks the very foundation of our society.

80. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports and respects the work of mothers in the nurturing of children as this work has substantial value for the family and society.

81. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that each spouse, in the natural complementarity that exists between man and woman, enjoys the same dignity and equal rights within the marriage.

82. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports that the role and the responsibilities of the family are directed towards forming a community of persons; promoting life by procreating children and safeguarding the elderly; participating in the development of society by nurture and education of children, participation in the political process, creation of wealth, charitable deeds.

83. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports opposing unfair tax treatment of the traditional family and discrimination against parents who provide childcare at home, so if one spouse stays at home to look after their children, each spouse should be entitled to contribute to the Canada Pension Plan based on one half of the total earned income.

84. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports income splitting up to $60,000, which reduces the tax burden and empowers families and the choices they make.

85. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports choices for childcare through a tax credit encouraging every family to select the form of child care best suited for them.

86. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports extended familycare with tax rebates for renovations such as granny suites made to existing homes to accommodate for an aging family member whichs also strengthens the basic building block of society.

87. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports family building courses which encourage families to invest in their relationships, through community seminars designed to improve family relations, marriage seminars or family finances.

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Environmental Reform

1. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes in the maintenance of a clean, safe and healthy environment is our collective responsibility and is in the interest of Ontario families for generations to come.

2. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports industries to reduce waste through government incentives, pr where necessary, through penalties and at the same time private initiatives for reusing and recycling will be encouraged.

3. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports ban, as soon as possible, the production, use, transportation, sale and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals, such as PCBs, dioxin, CFCs, and possibly other chemicals classified as persistent toxic, which permanently damage the environment, pose an unacceptable health risk and for which no acceptable disposal solution has been found.

4. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports waiving the provincial sales tax on new vehicles being converted to natural gas and on the required vehicle conversion equipment.

5. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the usage of natural gas powered vehicles in the employ of municipalities and all other levels of government.

6. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the conversion of all coal burning generating stations over to clean coal burning within its first mandate.

7. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the responsibility of each region in Ontario for the disposal of their own household and industrial waste, yet toxic waste remains within the responsibility of the province.

8. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the use of natural gas fuel, such as methane, which is inherently cleaner than oil, has a higher ignition point, burns better, has a proven safety record, reduces engine wear and greatly reduces pollution to the environment.

9. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports labeling products as per their chemical content, as the consumer has often no option or knowledge of the toxic chemicals which may be included in consumer products.

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Political Reform

1. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes the burden of government today has reached absurd limits, as the Ontario government is now many billions of dollars in debt, individuals and families are taxed more than the value of the services they receive from government thus Ontario will prosper only if we are willing to exercise personal responsibility and fiscal restraint.

2. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports studying the possible privatization of crown corporations that do not provide essential services to the public.

3. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reducing government spending by reducing bureaucracy through attrition.

4. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the initiation of a complete review of regional governments, in an effort to put into effect the idea that the government closest to the people serves the people best, as the best government is that which governs least.

5. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reducing the budgets of all government agencies, boards, and commissions by 10% the first year and initiate a review the second year with a view to eliminating as many of them as possible.

6. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reducing personnel in government ministries by about 5% per year through attrition.

7. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports eliminating public funding of nonessential government advertising and other government propaganda.

8. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports eliminating public funding for special interest groups.

9. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes the government must be able to carry out the mandate given to it by the voters, however once in power, it cannot forget the will and the needs of large sections of the population represented by legal political parties, nor can it forget the will of individual citizens.

10. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a more proportional system of representation by alternate preferential ballot vote to be implemented in the Ontario Election Act.

11. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports will make it possible for voters to get citizens initiatives of vital concern on a provincial referendum ballot.

12. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports changing the parliamentary rules to allow more free votes in the Ontario Legislature.

13. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports a recall mechanism to remove from office M.P.P.s who do not represent the interests of their constituents, if more than 50% of the people who voted in that constituency in the last provincial election would sign a petition for recall, a byelection must then be called.

14. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reforming the Ontario Representation Act to allow party leaders to sit in the Ontario Legislature as M.P.P.s whenever their party has obtained at least 5% of the popular vote across Ontario, as party leaders should not run as candidates in a riding but represent all of Ontario.

15. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports requiring the government to initiate a report from the auditor, within eight months prior to an election, to be made public when the election is called.

16. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports changing the Election Act to allow only individual voters to support political candidates and parties, within the current limits established by law, only individual voters will be eligible to contribute and receive tax receipts, before and during an election as organizations, associations, unions, and corporations do not vote, thus it is not appropriate for them to act as a channel for the flow of extra money to a particular candidate or party.

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Judicial Reform

1. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association believes our criminal justice system should place the protection of law abiding citizens and their property before all other objectives, as the rights of the victims should be upheld over the rights of criminals.

2. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the idea that the most effective way to prevent crime is by promoting family values, personal responsibility, and character.

3. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the idea that crime is not a social disease as everybody should be personally accountable for ones criminal actions.

4. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports the idea that correctional institutions should be places of rehabilitation, where the inmates are taught discipline, responsibility, and a trade, so after their release, they should be able to contribute to society in a meaningful way.

5. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports measures aimed at curbing street violence, family violence, and violence in schools.

6. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports reviewing the parole and probation programs and allow the full force of the law to take effect.

7. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports ending judicial activism, whereby judges at various levels effectively make laws, usurping the power of a democratically elected Ontario Legislature and its representative Members.

8. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports requiring the juvenile record of a person to be released upon the first adult conviction.

9. The Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association supports requiring a person who is convicted of a violent offence, for which they have been previously convicted, to serve the balance of the previous unserved sentence, in addition, the maximum sentence for the current conviction will be doubled, without possibility for parole.

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Constitutional Reform

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External Relations

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National Unity

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Ridings

124 Ontario Provincial Electoral District Ridings for the 42nd Ontario Provincial General Election 2018

Northern Ontario - 13 Electoral District Ridings
Algoma—Manitoulin: -
Kenora—Rainy River: -
Kiiwetinong: -
Mushkegowuk: -
Nickel Belt: -
Nipissing: -
Parry Sound—Muskoka: -
Sault Ste. Marie: -
Sudbury: -
Thunder Bay—Atikokan: -
Thunder Bay—Superior North: -
Timiskaming—Cochrane: -
Timmins: -

Central Ontario - 14 Electoral District Ridings
Barrie—Innisfil: -
Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte: -
Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound: -
Dufferin—Caledon: -
Guelph: -
Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock: -
Huron—Bruce: -
Northumberland—Peterborough South: -
Peterborough—Kawartha: -
Perth—Wellington: -
Simcoe—Grey: -
Simcoe North: -
Wellington—Halton Hills: -
York—Simcoe: -

Eastern Ontario - 16 Electoral District Ridings
Bay of Quinte: -
Carleton: -
Glengarry—Prescott—Russell: -
Hastings—Lennox and Addington: -
Kanata—Carleton: -
Kingston and the Islands: -
Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston: -
Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes: -
Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke: -
Nepean: -
Orléans: -
Ottawa Centre: -
Ottawa South: -
Ottawa—Vanier: -
Ottawa West—Nepean: -
Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry: -

Western Ontario - 16 Electoral District Ridings
Chatham-Kent—Leamington: -
Elgin—Middlesex—London: -
Essex: -
Haldimand—Norfolk: -
Kitchener Centre: -
Kitchener—Conestoga: -
Kitchener South—Hespeler: -
Lambton—Kent—Middlesex: -
London—Fanshawe: -
London North Centre: -
London West: -
Oxford: -
Sarnia—Lambton: -
Waterloo: -
Windsor—Tecumseh: -
Windsor West: -

Hamilton Niagara Ontario - 15 Electoral District Ridings
Brantford—Brant: -
Burlington: -
Cambridge: -
Flamborough—Glanbrook: -
Hamilton Centre: -
Hamilton East—Stoney Creek: -
Hamilton Mountain: -
Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas: -
Milton: -
Niagara Centre: -
Niagara Falls: -
Niagara West: -
Oakville: -
Oakville North—Burlington: -
St. Catharines: -

Greater 905 Toronto Ontario - 25 Electoral District Ridings
Ajax: -
Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill: -
Brampton Centre: -
Brampton East: -
Brampton North: -
Brampton South: -
Brampton West: -
Durham: -
King—Vaughan: -
Markham—Stouffville: -
Markham—Thornhill: -
Markham—Unionville: -
Mississauga Centre: -
Mississauga East—Cooksville: -
Mississauga—Erin Mills: -
Mississauga—Lakeshore: -
Mississauga—Malton: -
Mississauga—Streetsville: -
Newmarket—Aurora: -
Oshawa: -
Pickering—Uxbridge: -
Richmond Hill: -
Thornhill: -
Vaughan—Woodbridge: -
Whitby: -

Metropolitan 416 Toronto Ontario - 25 Electoral District Ridings
Beaches—East York: -
Davenport: -
Don Valley East: -
Don Valley North: -
Don Valley West: -
Eglinton—Lawrence: -
Etobicoke Centre: -
Etobicoke—Lakeshore: -
Etobicoke North: -
Humber River—Black Creek: -
Scarborough—Agincourt: -
Scarborough Centre: -
Scarborough—Guildwood: -
Scarborough North: -
Scarborough—Rouge Park: -
Scarborough Southwest: -
Spadina—Fort York: -
Parkdale—High Park: -
Toronto Centre: -
Toronto—Danforth: -
Toronto—St. Paul's: -
University—Rosedale: -
Willowdale: -
York South—Weston: -
York Centre: -

2016-17 Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association Caucus and Critics
Opposition Parliamentary Leader: -
Opposition Deputy Parliamentary Leader: -
Opposition Caucus Chair: -
Opposition Caucus Vice Chair: -
Opposition House Leader: -
Opposition Deputy House Leader: -
Opposition Question Period Coordinator: -
Opposition Caucus Party Liaison: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of the Attorney General: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Children and Youth Services: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Community and Social Services: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Economic Development and Growth: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Education: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Energy: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Finance and the Treasury Board Secretariat: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Francophone Affairs: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Government and Consumer Services: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Housing: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Health and Long Term Care: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Infrastructure: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of International Trade: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Labour: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Municipal Affairs: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Northern Development and Mines: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Research, Innovation, and Science: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Seniors Affairs: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Status of Women: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Sport: -
Opposition Critic for the Minister of Transportation: -

2016-17 Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association Provincial Executive Council and Office
Executive Director and Chair: -
Past Executive Director and Chair: -
1st Vice Chair: -
2nd Vice Chair: -
Treasurer: -
Secretary: -
Director of Constitution, Principles, and Policy: -
Director of Organization, Training, and Development: -
Director of Communications and Research: -
Director of Membership and Recruitment: -
Director of Fundraising and Donations: -
Director of Special Events and Community Outreach: -
Regional Director for Northern Ontario: -
Regional Director for Central Ontario: -
Regional Director for Eastern Ontario: -
Regional Director for Western Ontario: -
Regional Director for Hamilton Niagara Ontario: -
Regional Director for Greater 905 Toronto Ontario: -
Regional Director for Metropolitan 416 Toronto Ontario: -

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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ONTARIO
PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC REFORM ASSOCIATION



C E R T I F I C A T E

The undersigned chief executive officer hereby certifies that the attached document below is the official Constitution of the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association as amended and adopted at the last provincial executive council meetup at 7pm on Friday the 7th of July in 2017.

SIGNATURE

Bill Cook
Chair, OPDRA



ARTICLE 1. NAME AND PRINCIPLES

(a) The name of the Association shall be ONTARIO PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC REFORM ASSOCIATION.

(b) The principles of the Association are those set forth in Schedule A appended hereto which are incorporated into and form a part of this Constitution and can only be amended by a Constitution amending majority vote at an Assembly or by formal referendum.

(c) The policies and objectives of the Association are those set forth in the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association Statement of Principles and Policies. The policies and objectives of the Association may be amended only in accordance with Article 8 hereof or by a policy majority vote at an Assembly.

(d) Between Assemblies, interim policies and objectives of the Association shall be those determined by the Leader or the Caucus in consultation with the Caucus and Provincial Executive Council and approved by Provincial Executive Council, provided that such interim policies and objectives shall not be inconsistent with those established in accordance with Article 1(c) above.

ARTICLE 2. MEMBERSHIP

(a) Membership in the Association is open to all persons who are Ontarian citizens, who are ordinarily resident in Canada, who are 18 years of age or over and who support the principles of the Association. Associate membership in the Party is open to all persons who possess the above qualifications are 14 years of age and older but not yet 18 years of age, and landed immigrants of a minimum 14 years of age. Except in 2(b), (c) and (d), "members" and "membership" do not include associate members.

(b) Eligible persons may apply for membership in the Association and shall become members upon payment of the applicable membership fee to the Association and entry on the membership list at the Provincial Executive Office, or upon receipt of payment by an Officer or Director of the Electoral District Riding Constituency Association who shall upon receipt, date and sign his copy of the application form and enter the name on the membership list maintained by the Constituency. These conditions for membership shall be clearly stated on the application form. Memberships in the Association shall be for a period of 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years from the date of acceptance, at the option of the member, and may be renewed for further periods upon payment of the applicable membership fee.

(c) Only natural persons may be members of the Association. No corporation, trade union, society, or other organization shall be eligible for membership.

(d) Membership in the Association shall be terminated in the following cases:

(i) failure by the member to pay the applicable member fee;

(ii) resignation by the member submitted in writing to the Association;

(iii) for just cause, including conduct judged improper, unbecoming, or likely to adversely affect the interests and reputation of the Association, as determined by the Provincial Executive Council of the Association, subject to arbitration at the request of the aggrieved party.

(e) A member whose dues have lapsed not more than 60 days shall, upon payment of the applicable membership fee, be considered a member in good standing retroactive to the date when their membership lapsed.

ARTICLE 3. ELECTORAL DISTRICT RIDING CONSTITUENCY ASSOCIATIONS

(a) Members shall be organized according to their residence in the electoral district ridings of Ontario entitled to return a member to serve in the Ontario Legislative Assembly or, where the Provincial Executive Council so decides, according to their residence in the electoral district ridings of Ontario named and described in a representation order declared pursuant to the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act of Ontario.

(b) Members may form an Electoral District Riding Constituency Association in an Electoral District Riding in which at least 40 members of the Association reside. To obtain recognition as the Electoral District Riding Constituency Association of the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association, the Association shall:

(i) actively support and promote the principles of the Party;

(ii) adopt the Constituency Constitution which is incorporated into and forms part of the Association Constitution;

(iii) apply in writing to the Provincial Executive Council for recognition, including a copy of the member approved Constitution, the minutes of the meeting in which it was approved, and a list of the Officers and Directors of the Association.

(c) Unless earlier adopted by a Constituency, the Constituency Constitution set forth in Schedule B hereto shall be the Constitution of all Constituency Associations of and from 7th of July 2017 and unless by that date, options with respect to the election of Directors and to the election of Officers have been exercised by the Constituency Association shall apply.

(d) Subject to the other provisions of this Constitution, notwithstanding Articles 1(d) and 8(a)(i), the financial affairs of each Constituency Association shall be under the control of its members, acting through the Constituency Association Board of Directors who shall be responsible to ensure that the said financial affairs are conducted in a manner consistent with the principles of the Party, the Constitution of the Association and the Constitution of the Constituency Association. Where the number of members of the Association residing in the Electoral District Riding in which the Constituency Association was formed becomes less than 40 members, the Provincial Executive Council in its absolute discretion may withdraw recognition of the Constituency Association whereupon it shall cease to be a Constituency Association of the Association.

(e) Subject to Article 3(d) above and the other provisions of this Constitution, the affairs of each Constituency Association shall be under the control of its members, acting through the Constituency Association Board of Directors who shall be responsible to ensure that the said affairs are conducted in a manner consistent with the principles of the Association, the Constitution of the Association, the Constitution of the Constituency Association, and not prejudicial to the interests or well being of any other Constituency Association, or of the Association. <

(f) Presidents' lists of electoral district riding association presidents for all of Ontario shall be made available to any President of a recognized Constituency Association who makes a request for such a list in writing to Provincial Executive Office or to the Regional Executive Office(s) if such exist.

ARTICLE 4. CANDIDATE RECRUITMENT, NOMINATION, AND DEVELOPMENT

(a) Each recognized Constituency Association shall conduct a thorough search and may strike a nominating committee to find the best possible candidate(s) to represent the people of that constituency in the Ontario Legislative Assembly.

(b) Each recognized Constituency Association shall have the exclusive right to recommend potential candidates to the Provincial Executive Council of the Association. The Provincial Executive Council of the Association shall arrange to conduct candidate training and development programs for all potential candidates.

(c) Each duly recognized Constituency Association shall have the right to nominate the official candidate of the Association at a general meeting of the members of the Constituency Association subject always to the right of the Provincial Executive Council, in its absolute discretion where it feels the overall best interest of the Association is involved, to intervene with respect to any nomination and to nullify the nomination of any candidate.

(d) Where the Provincial Executive Council intervenes to nullify the nomination of a candidate, the Secretary shall notify the candidate and the Constituency Association in writing within 7 days, which notification shall contain a statement of the reason for the intervention. The candidate and the authorized representatives of the Constituency Association shall have the right to be heard by the Provincial Executive Council or its representatives before a decision is rendered, which decision shall be final and binding. Nothing herein prevents the Constituency Association from nominating another candidate, which nomination shall be subject to 4(c) and (d).

(e) The Leader shall not withhold, under the provisions of the Elections Act Ontario, the endorsement of a nominee as candidate nominated by a recognized Constituency Association except in compliance with Article 4(d).

ARTICLE 5. PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AND CAUCUS LIAISON COMMITTEE

(a) The Provincial Executive Council of the Association shall consist of the following members:

(i) the Leader;

(ii) a maximum of 3 Regional Councillors resident in each Region of the Province and thus are qualified for maximum representation on the Provincial Executive Council; and

(iii) the Chief Executive Officer or Reform Fund Ontario, who shall be a non-voting member thereof.

(b) A Region of the Province shall be entitled to elect one Regional Councillor to the Provincial Executive Council provided it has one recognized Constituency Association. A Provincial Region shall be entitled to the maximum number of Councillors provided for in Article 5(a) hereof in the event that it has the lesser of 10 recognized Constituency Associations, or recognized Constituency Associations in at least one third of the provincial ridings in that Region.

(c) The Regional Councillors to be elected in accordance with Articles 5(a) and 5(b) shall be elected by the alternative vote method at an Assembly by the delegates from the Region in which the Regional Councillor resides.

(d) The Provincial Executive Council shall abide by the principles and implement the policies and objectives of the Association and shall be responsible for the affairs of the Association, subject always to resolutions of any Assembly and to this Constitution.

(e) Following their election, the members of the Provincial Executive Council shall:

(i) elect from their members the Chair, 1st Vice Chair, 2nd Vice Chair, Treasurer, and the Secretary; and as and when required,

(ii) from among its members or members of the Association, establish such committees as it deems necessary for the proper and efficient functioning of the Association, with the Chair of all such committees being an elected member of the Provincial Executive Council.

(f) The Provincial Executive Council shall meet at the call of the Chair, at the call of the Leader, or upon written request to the Secretary of at least 5 members of the Provincial Executive Council. Before commencement of a meeting of the Provincial Executive Council there shall be an opening quorum of a majority of its members. Members of the Provincial Executive Council shall vote in person. A member of the Provincial Executive Council may participate in a meeting of the Provincial Executive Council by means of telephone conference that permits all persons participating in the meeting to hear each other, and the member so participating in a meeting shall be deemed to be present at the meeting and shall be included in the quorum. A meeting shall be deemed to take place when a quorum of members of the Provincial Executive Council participates in a telephone conference notwithstanding that no two of the members participating in such telephone conference are present in the same room. This provision relating to meetings by telephone conference shall, with all necessary changes, apply to each committee of, or established by, the Provincial Executive Council.

(g) Each Committee shall consist of a Chair and such other Association members as may be appointed by the Provincial Executive Council. Each Committee shall be accountable directly to and report to the Provincial Executive Council. Before the commencement of a meeting of any Committee of or established by the Provincial Executive Council, there shall be an opening quorum of a majority of the members thereof.

(h) The minutes of Provincial Executive Council meetings shall be provided to Council members and upon request to the Presidents of recognized Constituency Associations. Summaries of the minutes shall be sent to the Presidents and Secretaries of recognized Constituency Associations. The summaries must include a statement of attendance, all executive decisions and the results of all votes unless the omission of any specific item is authorized by the Provincial Executive Council and the general nature of the omission is disclosed.

(i) The Provincial Executive Council may, with the approval of two thirds of its members present and voting, appoint additional persons to be interim members of the Provincial Executive Council in order to fill any vacancy on the Provincial Executive Council between Assemblies; provided that the person appointed shall reside in the Region of the Province in which the vacancy occurred and is a member in good standing of the Association.

(j) The term of office of all members of the Provincial Executive Council, except the Leader, shall run from their election until the next election for members to the Provincial Executive Council at the next Assembly. No member of the Provincial Executive Council, except the Leader, shall serve more than 3 consecutive terms.

(k) The Chair shall be the Chief Operating Officer of the Party.

(l) The following shall not be entitled to be elected or appointed a voting member of the Provincial Executive Council:

(i) Members of Provincial or Federal Parliament

(ii) Federal Senators representing the Province;

(iii) employees of Members of Provincial or Federal Parliament or Federal Senators representing the Province; and

(iv) full time employees of Reform Fund Ontario or the Association.

(m) A Caucus Liaison Committee shall be established to ensure a close and harmonious working relationship between the Association grassroots membership and the caucus of Reformers elected to the Ontario Legislative Assembly. The Caucus Liaison Committee shall comprise seven members: three Reform Members of Provincial Parliament elected by the Reform Ontario Legislative Assembly Caucus, three Reform Federal Senators elected by the Reform Senate Caucus if and when there is an elected Senate with Reform members, three members of the Provincial Executive Council elected by the Council, and the provincial leader as an ex officio member.

(i) The Committee shall elect its own Chair.

(ii) Those elected to the Committee shall serve at the pleasure of the respective electing bodies, but not for more than five years.

(n) The Liaison Committee shall be responsible to:

(i) Maintain a continuous open line of communication between the caucuses and the Association membership through the elected Provincial Executive Council.

(ii) Serve as a channel through which:

- The caucuses can seek the counsel and guidance of the Provincial Executive Council on matters of policy and procedure;

- The Association membership can support the members of the caucuses in their role as Members of Provincial Parliament;

- The Association membership can be kept informed of issues coming before Legislature with which Reform members will have to deal.

ARTICLE 6. THE LEADER

(a) The Leader shall be elected by the members of the Association by secret vote.

(b) To be entitled to vote in a leadership vote, a member of the Association must have been a member in good standing of the Association according to the records maintained by the Association at its Provincial Executive Office on the date on which the leadership vote is announced by the Provincial Executive Council.

(c) At every Assembly, each voting delegate shall be asked "Do you want a leadership vote to be called?" Responses shall be by secret ballot by paper or by using appropriate telephonic and computer technology. The results of the ballot shall be announced to the Assembly before the end of the afternoon session on the same day.

(d) If more than 50% of the votes cast are in the affirmative, the Provincial Executive Council shall, within 15 days of the Assembly vote, announce when a leadership vote will be held and notice shall be given to all members of the Association by the Provincial Executive Council within a further 21 days. The leadership vote must be held not sooner than 3 months and not later than 6 months from the date of the vote held at the Assembly.

(e) When the office of Leader becomes vacant, a leadership vote must be called by the Provincial Executive Council within 15 days from the time that the office becomes vacant, and notice shall be given to all members of the Association within a further 21 days. The Leadership Vote shall be held not less than 3 months and not more than 6 months from the date it is announced. In the event of a vacancy, an Interim Leader may be appointed by the Provincial Executive Council, at its pleasure.

(f) The Provincial Executive Council shall be empowered to establish the procedure and mechanisms including appropriate telephonic and computer technology, not inconsistent with the provisions hereof, whereby the leadership vote shall be conducted.

ARTICLE 7. ASSEMBLIES

(a) The Assembly of the Association shall be a meeting of the persons referred to in Articles 7(d) and 7(f). Subject to the provisions of Article 8 hereof with respect to referendum voting by the Association membership, the Assembly shall be the highest authority and supreme governing body of the Association.

(b) An Assembly shall be held at least every two years at a time and place fixed by the Provincial Executive Council. Executive Council may provide that person referred to in Articles 7(d) and 7(f), though not present at the place of Assembly, may communicate with those present through the use of appropriate satellite, telephonic and computer technology and shall be deemed present at the place of Assembly. An Assembly also shall be held forthwith after written request for same to the Secretary by one quarter of all recognized Constituency Associations. "Forthwith" in 7(b) shall mean as soon as reasonably possible, but in any event not later than 120 days after the receipt by the Secretary of the minimum number of written Constituency Associations request as herein provided. At least 60 days written notice of the holding of any Assembly shall be sent to all members of the Association who have been members in good standing of the Association for at least 14 days before the date of such notice via the President of each recognized Constituency Association.

(c) At the time of notifying the members of the Association as to the Assembly, the Provincial Executive Council shall appoint subcommittees as follows:

(i) an Assembly Arrangements subcommittee whose duties are to organize the Assembly;

(ii) a Nominations subcommittee whose duties are to review all nominations for Association office and to ensure that at least one candidate stands for each elective office;

(iii) a Resolutions subcommittee whose duties are to prepare a call for resolutions for Association Assemblies and review and comment on all resolutions submitted for consideration by the Association Assembly. The Resolutions subcommittee should ensure that all resolutions submitted to it are published and provided to all Constituency presidents and all delegates to the Assembly;

(iv) a Credentials subcommittee whose duties are to make final decisions as to accreditation of all delegates and other persons attending the Assembly; and

(d) such other subcommittees as are required to accomplish the purposes of a particular Assembly.

All members of each of the above sub-committees shall be members of the Association, and shall not be paid employees of the Association.

(e) The voting delegates entitled to attend and vote at each Assembly shall be members of the Association who were in good standing not less than 60 days prior to the date of the Assembly and shall consist of the following:

(i) from each recognized Constituency Association one delegate for 40 members, one delegate for each additional 40 members or major fraction thereof up to a total of 240 members, and one delegate for each additional 100 members or major fraction thereof, provided that each Constituency Association shall be entitled to not less than 3 delegates;

(ii) members of the Provincial Executive Council, and,

(iii) sitting members of the Provincial Parliament or Senate of Canada who are members of the Association.

(f) Each delegate to an Assembly shall have one vote only. All votes by delegates to an Assembly for the election of members of the Provincial Executive Council shall be by secret ballot by paper or by using appropriate telephonic and computer technology.

(g) Upon payment of the registration fee, any member or associate member of the Association in good standing, who is not otherwise a delegate entitled to vote, shall have the right to attend and speak at all meetings of an Assembly but shall not have voting rights.

(h) Resolutions at an Association Assembly, unless otherwise in this Constitution provided, shall require a majority of the votes cast to be carried (herein called a "majority vote"). A resolution establishing or amending Association policy or objectives to be carried must receive not only a majority of the votes cast but must also receive a majority vote of the delegates from a majority of the Regions within the Province which qualify for maximum representation on the Provincial Executive Council of the Association in accordance with Article 5(b) (herein called a "policy majority vote"). A resolution amending this Constitution, including the principles of the Association , to be carried must receive not only a two thirds majority of the votes cast, but must also receive a majority vote of the delegates from a majority of the Regions within the Province which qualify for maximum representation on the Provincial Executive Council of the Association in accordance with Article 5(b) (herein called a "constitution amending majority vote").

ARTICLE 8. POLLS AND REFERENDA

(a) The Provincial Executive Council of the Association shall be empowered from time to time:

(i) to conduct a poll of the membership by mail or telephone, on any important fiscal, social, economic, constitutional, or other political issue, the results of which will be taken as advice by the Leader, the caucus, and the Provincial Executive Council but which will not be binding; and

(ii) to request an opinion on some important important fiscal, social, economic, constitutional, or other political issue proposal of each Association member by secret ballot by paper or by using appropriate telephonic and computer technology.

(b) The members of the Association may initiate a formal referendum of the Association membership by submitting a petition to the Secretary of the Association requesting such a referendum and signed by not less than 5% of the Association membership. The Provincial Executive Council of the Association is responsible for conducting such a referendum by official secret ballot by appropriate telephonic and computer technology within 90 days of receiving such a request.

ARTICLE 9. FINANCIAL ORGANIZATION

(a) The financial affairs of the Association shall be managed by Reform Fund Ontario, a non profit, corporate entity created for such purpose and organized by the Association on the following basis:

(i) the Articles of Reform Fund Ontario shall provide that the members of Reform Fund Ontario shall be the voting members of the Provincial Executive Council;

(ii) the Directors and the Chief Executive Officer of Reform Fund Ontario shall be appointed by the Provincial Executive Council from amongst their own members, with the exception of the Chief Executive Officer who may but need not be an elected member of the Provincial Executive Council. In the event that the Chief Executive Officer appointed is also a voting member of the Provincial Executive Council, the voting position shall be vacant.

(b) Each member of the Provincial Executive Council and each Director and Officer of Reform Fund Ontario shall be free from all personal liability for any debts, actions, claims, demands, liabilities or commitments of any kind made by the Association, and in particular the Association and Reform Fund Ontario shall indemnify and hold harmless each said member, Director and Officer against any such debt, action, claim, demand, liability or commitment.

(c) Only Reform Fund Ontario may, and no member shall, commit the Association to any indebtedness of any kind, either for goods, services or otherwise. Any member committing the Association in contravention hereof shall save harmless and indemnify the Association against any claim, demand, action, debt or cause of action which may arise as a result of such unauthorized commitment. The members of the Provincial Executive Council in their capacity as the shareholders of Reform Fund Ontario shall ensure that annual audited financial statements are made available to any member of the Association upon request.

(d) The Leader and Chair of the Provincial Executive Council of the Association, so long as they are not Members of Provincial Parliament, shall be offered remuneration in direct proportion to the amount of time given to the responsibilities of office, as determined from time to time by the Provincial Executive Council.

(e) The Provincial Executive Council is empowered to offer remuneration to other persons as required.

ARTICLE 10. PARTY OFFICES

(a) The Association shall maintain a Provincial Executive Office and other offices at locations to be determined by the Provincial Executive Council.

ARTICLE 11. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

(a) The Provincial Executive Council, or any committee or task force established by the Provincial Executive Council or by an Assembly, or a recognized Constituency Association on approval of a majority vote of the members present and voting at a meeting of the Constituency Association called for that purpose, among others, may propose amendments to this Constitution. If the amendment is being proposed by a Constituency Association, a copy of the Notice to its membership for the meeting and a copy of the minutes of the meeting must be presented with the proposed amendment.

(b) Notice of the proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be in writing and given to the Secretary of the Association at least 180 days prior to the date of the next scheduled Assembly. Upon receipt of the notice, the Secretary of the Association shall, if the notice complies with this Article, not later than 120 days prior to the date of the next scheduled Assembly, send all recognized Constituency Associations a copy of the proposed amendment. Not later than 90 days prior to the date of the next scheduled Assembly, all recognized Constituency Associations will be entitled to comment to Provincial Executive Council on the proposed amendments. Unless withdrawn by the proposing body, the proposed amendment shall be presented to the next Assembly of the Association.

ARTICLE 12. DUTY TO ENFORCE CONSTITUTION

(a) It shall be the duty of the Leader and the Chair of the Provincial Executive Council to uphold and enforce the provisions of this Constitution.

ARTICLE 13. NOTICES AND TIME

For all matters provided for in this Constitution dealing with notices and time periods:

(a) a period of time computed in days shall not include a Sunday, or a religious holyday, or a national holiday where the period provided for is less than 10 days, but for all other periods of 10 days or more, all days shall be included;

(b) a period of time between two events shall be computed by excluding the date of the first event and including the date of the second event;

(c) notices may be given by email, telecopier, or personal delivery provided, however, may be given by bulk mail, and whenever notices are given by the foregoing methods the effective date of delivery shall be considered to be:

(i) for 1st class mail, on the later of the date of the postmark and the date of the delivery to the post office;

(ii) for telecopier, on the date of transmission;

(iii) for personal delivery, on the day of delivery to the recipient; and

(iv) for bulk mail, 3 days after delivery to the post office as evidenced by the post office receipt and the Secretary's certificate as to the addressees,

provided, however, that notices of Constituency Association meetings (subject to the Constitution of the particular Constituency Association), other than meetings dealing with those matters set out in clause 3(d)(i), (ii) and (iii), may be given orally in person or by telephone.

(d) notices to the Association, or the Provincial Executive Council, or the Secretary of the Association, shall be addressed to the Provincial Executive Office of the Association and marked to the attention of the appropriate person or body;

(e) notices to a member shall be addressed to such member at the member's address according to the most recent Association or Constituency records, as applicable;

(f) notices to a Constituency Association shall be addressed to the President (or failing a President at the time, to the Secretary) of the Constituency Association at the address of such officer according to the most recent Party records;

(g) any notice provision in this Constitution shall be considered to have been satisfied if reasonable compliance has been accomplished and no material prejudice is done as a result of the absence of strict technical compliance with the applicable notice provision.



SCHEDULE A

Attached to and Forming Part of the

Constitution of Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association

ONTARIO PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC REFORM ASSOCIATION STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES

1. We affirm as Ontarians our true and strong commitment to free and fair Canada, being as one of the equal ten provinces and combined territories in one nation indivisible, and to our vision of brand new Canada as a balanced Confederation where Ottawa listens and responds to the democratic will of its provinces, territories, and their citizens.

2. We affirm our commitment to the rule of the law and to the concept that governments and their lawmakers are not above the laws of the Province of Ontario.

3. We believe in dynamic, constructive, and progressive change politically in a grassroots democratic renewal of the reform tradition here in Ontario for Ontarians.

4. We affirm that provincial political parties here in Ontario should be effectively guided by stated values, ideals, and principles which are truly shared by their members and faithfully rooted in the political beliefs of Ontarians.

5. We believe that the Ontarian people are the most valuable resource of this province and that the progressive development of human knowledge, skills, and relationships are the keys to full participation in the knowledge based service economy of the future.

6. We believe that our identity and vision for a future Ontario should be rooted in, inspired by, and developed through a fresh appreciation of this land as our land, with a creative mandate as its stewards, and the supreme importance to our well being of exploring, renewing, and conserving our natural resources, being air, land, and water, a physical environment for the benefit and enjoyment of our own future generations.

7. We affirm the inherent Ontario value, dignity, and respect of the individual human being and the importance of strengthening and protecting the Ontarian family unit as essential to the well being of individual personhood and society at large.

8. We believe that every individual, group, and region in Ontario is entitled to fundamental justice, and that fundamental justice entitles the people of each region to benefit equally, without discrimination, from participation in the shared culture and heritage our province and from the programs and expenditures of its government.

9. We believe in the Ontario value of free enterprise and initiative, and that governments have a responsibility to foster and protect an economically competitive environment in which both can be encouraged and exercised by individuals and groups respectively.

10. We believe that the creation of wealth and productive jobs for Ontarians is best achieved through the operations of a responsible, broadly based, free enterprise economy fairly balanced by the ownership of private property, freedom of contract, and the operations of free markets and the respective opportunities found within.

11. We believe that Ontarians have a personal and collective responsibility to care and provide for the basic needs of those Ontarian people who are unable to care and provide for themselves.

12. We believe in freedom of opinion, conscience, and religion, and the right of Ontarians to advocate, without fear of intimidation or suppression, ideals, values, and public policies which reflect their most deeply held personal beliefs and values.

13. We believe that public policy in democratic societies should reflect the grassroots democratic will of the majority of the citizens of Ontario as determined by free and fair elections, recall, referenda, and the decisions of real responsible representative and legally constituted parliaments and assemblies elected for, of, and by the people.

14. We believe that the interest of minorities and the people of the underpopulated regions of Ontario should be safeguarded by constitutional guarantees and parliamentary institutions which fairly balance representation by population with regional based representation to alleviate alienation, inequality, and disparity.

15. We believe in the common Ontarian sense of the common Ontarian people, their right to be consulted on public policy matters before major decisions are made, their right to choose and recall their own representatives and to govern themselves through truly representative and responsible institutions with real grassroots responsiveness, and their right to directly initiate legislation via referenda for which substantial public support is demonstrated.

16. We believe in the accountability of elected representatives to the Ontarian people who elect them and that the duty of elected members to their constituents should supersede their obligations to their political parties.

17. We believe that the legitimate role of government is to do for the Ontarian people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all or do as well for themselves individually, or through non governmental organizations.

18. We believe in public service where governments, civil servants, politicians, and parties exist to serve the Ontarian people, and that they should demonstrate this service commitment at all times.

19. We believe that public money should be regarded by governments as funds held in trust for all Ontarians and that governments should practice fiscal responsibility especially the governmental responsibility to balance expenditures and revenues.

20. We affirm the need to call as Ontarians for the establishment a Triple E Senate in the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, being a Senate which is elected by the people, with equal representation from each province and combined territories, and which is fully effective in counterbalancing and safeguarding regional interests from representation by population in the House of Commons.

21. We believe in true equality, liberty, and freedom of all citizens of Ontario with equal societal rights and responsibilities for all to share together culturally.



SCHEDULE B

Attached to and Forming Part of the

Constitution of the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association

CONSTITUENCY CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE I: NAME

1.1 The name of the Association is Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association (insert name of Constituency) Electoral District Riding Constituency Association.

ARTICLE II: INTERPRETATION

2.1 In this Constitution:

(a) "Annual term" means a period of time between two consecutive annual general meetings;

(b) "Association" means Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association (insert name of Constituency) Electoral District Riding Constituency Association;

(c) "Board of Directors" or "the Board" means the Board by that name established under Article VII;

(d) "Candidate" means the person selected by the members of the Constituency Association as the Association Candidate for election to the House of Commons;

(e) "Community" means a geographic area within an Electoral District Riding as designated by the Board of Directors from time to time, where applicable;

(f) "Constituency" means the Ontario Provincial Electoral District Riding of (insert name of Constituency);

(g) "Director" means any member of the Board of Directors and includes Directors elected by members of a District and Directors elected by the members of the Association;

(h) "District" means a geographic area within the Constituency as may be designated by the Board of Directors from time to time;

(i) "Executive Committee" means the committee by that name established under Article VIII;

(j) "Member" means a member of the Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association in good standing who resides in the Constituency;

(k) "Nominee" means a person standing for election in the Constituency as the Association Candidate for election to the Ontario Legislative Assembly, who has complied with all filing requirements;

(l) "Association" means Ontario Progressive Democratic Reform Association;

(m) "Returning Officer" means a member who has been appointed by the Association to supervise the candidate selection at a Candidate Selection Meeting.

ARTICLE III: OBJECTIVES

3.1 The objectives of the Association are:

(a) to support and promote the principles, objectives and policies of the Association, and to maintain an effective Constituency organization for that purpose;

(b) to nominate a candidate to represent the Association in the Constituency at each provincial general election and byelection;

(c) to assist and promote the election of the Candidate of the Party in the Constituency at each provincial general election and byelection;

(d) to raise money and maintain a fund to support the Association and to assist candidates in provincial general elections and byelections in the Constituency;

(e) to assist the Association in developing policies and election platforms.

ARTICLE IV: MEMBERSHIP

4.1 Membership in the Association is open to all persons who are Ontarian citizens, who are ordinarily resident in the Constituency, who are 18 years of age or over and who support the principles of the Association.

4.2 Associate membership in the Association is open to all persons who are Ontarian citizens, who are ordinarily resident in the Constituency, who support the principles of the Party and are at least 14 years of age but not older than 17 years of age and to all landed immigrants who are ordinarily resident in the Constituency, who support the principles of the Association and who are at least 14 years of age.

4.3 An eligible person shall become a member or associate member of the Association upon payment of the membership fee to the Association and entry upon the membership list at Provincial Executive Office, or upon receipt of payment by an officer or director of the Association who shall, upon receipt, date and sign their copy of the application form and cause the name to be entered on the membership list maintained by the Association.

4.4 Membership and Associate Membership in the Association shall be terminated in the following cases:

(a) failure of the member or associate member to pay the annual fee to the Association;

(b) resignation by the member or associate member submitted in writing to the Association;

(c) ceasing to be resident in the constituency; or

(d) for just cause, including conduct judged improper, unbecoming or likely to adversely affect the interests and reputation of the Association, as determined by the Provincial Executive Council of the Association, subject to arbitration at the request of the aggrieved party.

4.5 A member whose dues have lapsed not more than 60 days shall, upon payment of the annual fee to the Association, be considered a member or associate member in good standing retroactive to the date when their membership lapsed.

4.6 Members or associate members are members or associate members of the District in which they reside, where applicable.

ARTICLE V: VOTING

5.1 Only members of the Association in good standing may vote on matters coming before a general meeting of the Association. Motions require a majority vote of persons present and voting to pass. In the event of a tie vote, the Chair shall cast the deciding vote, which shall break any tie.

5.2 Only members of the Association in good standing for at least 30 days immediately prior to the date of voting, or the first date of voting in the event of multiple candidate selection meetings, shall be entitled to vote on:

(a) the election of Directors and, where applicable, Officers of the Association;

(b) the election of Delegates and Alternates to any Assembly of the Association; and

(c) the election of a candidate of record for election to the Ontario Legislative Assembly.

5.3 Voting on matters set out in Article 5.2 shall be by secret ballot. No proxy voting is permitted.

5.4 A person who is a Ontarian citizen and who is registered as an associate member 30 days immediately prior to the date of voting and has attained 18 years of age prior to or on the date of voting is entitled to vote on matters set out in Article 5.2.

5.5 Only members of the Association in good standing shall be qualified to stand for election under Article 5.2 (a) or (b).

5.6 The Board of Directors shall appoint a nomination committee in relation to the elections in Article 5.2 (a). Two members of the Board of Directors who are not standing for election under Article 5.2 (a) and three other members shall form the nomination committee. The nomination committee shall set and conduct a full and fair search for each position. Nominations for positions in Article 5.2 (a) and (b) shall not close until nominations from the floor have been called.

5.7 A meeting for the election of delegates and alternates pursuant to Article 5.2 (b) shall be called at least 60 days prior to the commencement date of an Association assembly.

ARTICLE VI: MEETINGS

6.1 Meetings of the Association shall be called by the Executive Committee as required. The Secretary shall, within forty five (45) days of receipt by the Secretary of a written request signed by not less than twenty-five (25) members or 10% of the members, whichever is greater, call a meeting of the Association. Notice of such meetings shall state the matters to be dealt with at the meeting. No matters shall be dealt with at a meeting convened by the Secretary pursuant to such request except those stated in such request.

6.2 A quorum at meetings of the Association shall be thirty (30) members entitled to vote. A quorum at meetings of a District, where applicable, shall be fifteen (15) members entitled to vote. Should a quorum not be present within one-half hour of the time called for a meeting, that meeting, other than a meeting called by the Secretary pursuant to a request under Article 6.1, shall be set over to the same time and place one week hence, when the members then present and entitled to vote shall constitute a quorum.

6.3 Meetings of the Association shall be held within the boundaries of the Constituency unless a majority of the Board of Directors vote to hold the meeting in another suitable venue as close as possible to the Constituency boundaries. Meetings of a District, where applicable, shall be held within the boundaries of that District.

6.4 The Association shall in each year, within thirty (30) days of (insert the month chosen), hold an Annual General Meeting at which the following business shall be conducted:

(a) report by the Board of Directors;

(b) presentation of financial statements;

(c) election of Directors and, where applicable, Officers;

(d) other business as required.

In the event of a provincial general election or byelection falling within the allotted period, an Annual General Meeting may be postponed for up to 90 days.

6.5 A Constituency Association holds an annual general meeting to choose and elect its Board of Directors by the general membership at large using the unitary system and does not break down by district.

ARTICLE VII: BOARD OF DIRECTORS

7.1 The affairs of the Association shall, subject to direction from the members, be managed and directed by a Board of Directors.

7.2 The Board of Directors shall be comprised of:

(a) the Directors and Officers of the Association; and

(b) the Association's Member of Provincial Parliament from the Constituency, or that Member's designated representative. If there is no elected Party Member from the Constituency, the Board shall include the Constituency Candidate of Record for election to the Ontario Legislature and this inclusion shall terminate one hundred and twenty (120) days following the provincial general election or byelection which they contested.

7.3 The number of elected Directors of the Association shall not exceed thirty (30).

7.4 Notwithstanding Article 7.3, the Board of Directors may appoint up to three (3) additional members to the Board as circumstances may require.

7.5 Directors shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting from the members.

7.6 Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be called by the Secretary at the direction of the President or shall be called by the Secretary within a reasonable time of receiving written request for a meeting, signed by at least five (5) Directors.

7.7 The term of office of the Directors, as determined from time to time by the membership at a general meeting, shall be either;

(a) two (2) annual terms, with one half of the total number of Directors elected at each consecutive Annual General Meeting, except for the first Board of Directors of the Association, half of whom shall be elected for two (2) annual terms and half for one (1) annual term, or

(b) one (1) annual term.

7.8 The Board of Directors shall appoint such committees as are required for the efficient operation of the Association.

7.9 A Director may be removed from office by a resolution passed by not less than seventy five per cent (75%) of members present and voting at a meeting of the Association called for that purpose on at least fourteen (14) days notice.

7.10 If a Director ceases to hold office, the Board may appoint a replacement Director from the membership.

7.11 A quorum of the Board of Directors is the greater of forty per cent (40%) or 6 members.

7.12 The members may vote to give the Board of Directors the power to pass a resolution providing for the removal of a Director who has missed three (3) consecutive Board meetings without reasonable explanation.

7.13 In the event that there are the same number or fewer nominees standing for election or an equivalent number of nominees standing for election than vacant Director positions, each member present and voting shall mark "yes" or "no" opposite the name of each nominee on the ballot. Every nominee receiving more affirmative than negative votes from the members present and voting and only those nominees shall be declared a Director.

ARTICLE VIII: OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

8.1 The day to day affairs of the Association shall, subject to direction from the Board of Directors, be managed and directed by an Executive Committee, which shall be comprised of the President, Vice President(s), Secretary, Treasurer and not more than three (3) additional members of the Board to a maximum number of seven (7).

8.2 The Officers of the Association who shall be elected each year by the Directors from their numbers shall include:

(a) a President who shall preside at all meetings of the Association, the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee and who shall be an ex officio member of all committees except the Nomination Committee and Candidate Selection Committee.

(b) one (1) or two (2) Vice-Presidents, one of whom shall assume and perform the duties of the President in the absence of the President;

(c) a Secretary who shall have custody of all official Association records, documents and all regulations of the Association, other than financial, and who shall prepare and maintain minutes of meetings of the Association, of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee, call meetings pursuant to Article 6.1 and Article 7.8 and who shall perform such other duties as the Board may direct;

(d) a Treasurer who shall administer the financial affairs of the Association and keep or cause to be kept all such books of account and financial records as may be required to properly reflect the financial affairs of the Association.

8.3 An Officer may be removed from office by a resolution passed by not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the Directors present and voting at a meeting of the Board of Directors called for that purpose on not less than fourteen (14) days notice.

8.4 If an Officer ceases to hold office, the Board of Directors may appoint a member of the Board to fill the position for the unexpired term.

8.5 Meetings of the Executive Committee may be called by the President or shall be called at the request of at least three (3) other Executive Committee members.

8.6 A quorum of the Executive Committee is a majority of its members.

8.7 Reasonable effort shall be made to notify all Executive Committee members of meetings of the Committee.

8.8 Meetings of the Executive Committee shall be held by either personal or simultaneous telephone attendance or by a combination thereof, but no decision shall be made without the concurrence of a majority of the Executive Committee.

8.9 All actions of the Executive Committee shall be recorded and the actions taken since the previous meeting of the Board of Directors shall be presented for ratification to the next meeting of the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE IX: CANDIDATE SELECTION

9.1 No more than seven (7) months prior to a prospective candidate selection meeting, a candidate selection committee shall be selected by the Board of Directors, and shall be comprised of two (2) members of the Board, one of whom shall be named Chair of the Committee, plus three (3) other members from the membership at large. Each Committee member must sign a pledge indicating that they will not become a nominee at that candidate selection meeting.

9.2 The candidate selection committee shall:

(a) organize and administer a candidate recruitment, nomination, and selection program;

(b) conduct a thorough search to find the best available nominees to seek election as the candidate to represent the constituency in the Ontario Legislative Assembly in accordance with Party guidelines;

(c) require the calling of a general meeting of the Association for the purpose of selecting the Constituency Candidate being "the candidate selection meeting,"; and

(d) provide opportunities for the dissemination or publication of the platform and priorities of all nominees and may set spending limits for the campaigns of all nominees.

9.3 Any member of the Board of Directors or Executive Committee who declares an intention to seek the nomination as a candidate in an upcoming provincial election or byelection, shall forthwith resign as a member of the Board, but shall be entitled, along with other nominees, to be notified of and to attend meetings of the Board as a non voting observer until the Constituency candidate has been selected.

9.4 The candidate selection committee shall, no more than three (3) months but not less than two (2) months prior to the prospective candidate selection meeting:

(a) declare the start of the official campaigning period for nominees;

(b) release a copy of the Association's membership list to each nominee who has properly filed papers; and

(c) provide opportunities for nominees to express their platforms.

9.5 At a candidate selection meeting, no business other than the selection of a candidate shall be conducted until after the selection of a candidate has been made.

9.6 A person seeking nomination as a candidate for the Party in the Constituency shall present to the President or Secretary, before nominations are closed, a nomination paper signed by not less than ten (10) members of the Association who are entitled to vote on the selection of a candidate. The nomination paper shall be signed also by the nominee indicating acceptance of the nomination and support of the principles of the Association. Every nominee must have been a member of the Party for at least 30 days prior to the date of the candidate's nomination being submitted, have a paid up membership extending to at least the latest possible date of the forthcoming election, and be eligible to sit as a member in the Ontario Legislature.

9.7 Nominations shall close at 5:00 p.m., fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the candidate selection meeting, or, when multiple candidate selection meetings are to be held, at 5:00 p.m., fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the first such meeting.

9.8 At candidate selection meetings, the Chair shall:

(a) call the meeting to order;

(b) read the notice of the meeting;

(c) turn the meeting over to a Returning Officer to supervise speeches, voting, and vote counting.

9.9 Before the vote is taken, each nominee shall be given equal time to address the meeting. The time allotment shall be determined by the candidate selection committee and communicated to all nominees in advance, and may be used by the nominee and/or the nominee's introducer as the nominee may choose.

9.10 On the ballot, the nominees shall be named in order chosen by lot, for full fairness.

9.11 Ballots shall be marked in secret by eligible voters and, with the approval of the Returning Officer, electronic voting methods may be used, in the alternative.

9.12 Each nominee is entitled to have a scrutineer present when ballots are being counted.

9.13 Candidates will be selected by a single preferential transferable ballot wherein the voter numerically ranks the nominees in the sequence of their choice.

9.14 The Board of Directors, in consultation with a person designated by the Party, may determine that more than one candidate selection meeting should be held for a particular provincial election or byelection, herein referred to as multiple candidate selection meetings, whereupon the following rules and procedures shall apply:

(a) The Board of Directors, after consultation with the candidate selection committee, shall decide the number of meetings to be held and the location, date and time of each such meeting.

(b) The same general rules and procedures as relate to a single candidate selection meeting shall apply to each multiple candidate selection meeting unless varied by this Article 9.14.

(c) Ballots at all multiple candidate selection meetings held shall be identical.

(d) At these meetings voting shall be always by way of single preferential transferable ballot.

(e) Membership lists at all multiple candidate selection meetings shall be identical. In order to be eligible to vote at meetings when the multiple candidate selection process is in effect, a person must have been a member for at least 30 days prior to the date of the first of the multiple meetings to be held.

(f) No person shall vote at more than one candidate selection meeting in any election or byelection.

(g) All ballots cast shall be deposited by voters into sealed ballot boxes, and following the voting at each meeting, the integrity of those ballot boxes shall be maintained by the Returning Officer.

(h) Votes for all nominees are cumulative, and if no nominee receives more than 50% on counting the "first" choices marked on the ballots then the nominee receiving the lowest number of 1st choice votes shall be dropped from the contest and his or her ballots shall be added to those of the remaining contestants according to their 2nd choice and this process shall be repeated until a nominee receives more then 50% of the total number of valid votes cast in the election.

(i) The Returning Officer shall supervise the counting of the ballots, and shall thereafter declare and announce the winner.

9.15 If there is only one valid nominee, that person shall be the Association Candidate for the Constituency, and the Returning Officer shall so declare.

9.16 The Association Candidate selected shall be invited to address the meeting.

9.17 In the event of an unanticipated provincial election or byelection, Articles 9.1, 9.2, 9.4 and 9.7 may be abrogated by a resolution passed by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE X: NOTICES

10.1 Notice of meetings of the Association, together with notice of dates, times and locations of meetings, and items to be dealt with thereat shall be given by, or under the direction of the Secretary to each member of record by one or more of the following methods:

(a) mailing a copy of such notice to his or her address of record or transmitting a copy of the notice by facsimile to a number provided by the member for that purpose.

(b) personally delivering a copy of such notice,

(c) mailing to his or her address of record a copy of a Constituency Newsletter which prominently displays such notice or

(d) causing such notice to be published in a newspaper or newspapers having general circulation through the Constituency.

10.2 Such notices shall be given not less than fourteen (14) days and not more than forty five (45) days prior to the day on which any such meeting is to be held. In the event of an unanticipated provincial election or byelection, the Board of Directors may set such notice period as they deem appropriate.

10.3 Notice of meetings of the Board of Directors shall be given to all Directors by either the President or the Secretary not less then seven (7) days prior to the day of the meeting. Such notices shall be given by mail, in person, or by telephone. "Notice of any meeting of the Board of Directors may be waived with the prior approval of 75% of the members of the Board."

10.4 Notice of District meetings, where applicable, shall be given by the Secretary of the Association or by the Director elected by the District to all members of record residing in the District by mail, in person, or by telephone not less than fourteen (14) days prior to the day of the meeting.

ARTICLE XI: PARTY AFFILIATION

11.1 A recognized Association shall provide the National Office of the Party with the following:

(a) a copy of the Constituency Association Constitution as provided for in Article 3 of the Association Constitution, together with a copy of the minutes of the meeting at which such constitution was approved;

(b) notice of any substitution made pursuant to Article 13; and

(c) on an ongoing basis, the names of the Officers and of the members of the Board of Directors with their mailing addresses and telephone numbers, and noting in order of priority, the officers to whom communications from the Association are to be addressed.

ARTICLE XII: AMENDMENTS

12.1 This Constitution may be amended in accordance with Article XII of the Association Constitution.

ARTICLE XIII: FISCAL YEAR

13.1 The fiscal year of the Association shall be a twelve (12) month period.

ARTICLE XIV: BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT

14.1 In the event of a legal change to the boundaries of a Constituency, one person from each Constituency so affected and one person appointed by Provincial Executive Council shall meet to decide the fair division of assets of the affected Constituencies and the transfer and coordination of membership lists.

ARTICLE XV: DUTY TO UPHOLD

15.1 It shall be the duty of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee to uphold and enforce the provisions of this Constitution.

ARTICLE XVI: REGULATIONS

16.1 The Board of Directors may pass regulations with respect to the operation of the Association which shall not conflict with this Constitution or the Association Constitution. Copies of regulations must be kept by the Secretary and copies thereof shall be sent to Provincial Executive Office.

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