Zachary Young

The policy of welfare payments based on race is (needless to say) racist and should be ended immediately. No more taxpayer's money going to Native Americans - but as a compromise we should allow anyone with a status card exemption from all taxes for life.

Where is option C : I have no faith in either government?

Two solutions to the price of gas going so high : #1 - stop taxing it so much. Duh! #2 - A big part of the increase in the price of oil is the increase in the money supply. If we had a 100% gold backed currency, oil wouldn't have gone up in price at all in the last ten years, as oil has stayed flat when expressed as oil : gold.

Copyright and it's sister intellectual property are a bad idea and should be repealed. They amount to nothing more than tiny state mandated monopolies and are the antithesis of free market competition.

Marc Emery is a true Canadian hero. It is times like these that remind me of a a quote by Mark Twain. Quote. In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. End quote. Change does not occur through political action - because the process is so utterly corrupt and dominated by special interests. The most effective way of bringing change is through civil disobedience. It is in this manner that Marc Emery fought to bring us Sunday shopping and it is in this manner that Marc Emery fights to end the prohibition of marijuana. Emery is a hero, a patriot and a matyr. He has done nothing wrong, and everything right, and it just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished.

"So, unless you traffic pot, you have nothing to worry about." I've never understood how people can imagine it should be legal (or quasi-legal) to smoke something, but illegal to sell it. Perhaps they should read up on the old 'Hippocrates' of biblical lore. Of course all drugs - and I do mean ALL drugs - should be legalized immediately. The harm done by drugs is dwarfed by the harm done by the war on drugs, and I do not take fondly to the implicit assumption of the government telling me what I may or may not put in my body (the implicit assumption, for those who need things spelled out, is that the government owns my body).

"Should the public system learn from this private healthcare system, or is the public system incapable of preventative healthcare treatment at this stage and private clinics are our only hope?" The latter, but we must be careful about how we do it. The ideal transition is this - we must, either legitimately if we can convince the government (unlikely) or illegitimately create a healthy market in the provision of medical services. The socialist system is destined to collapse - likely within my lifetime (which has, sadly, been shortened by the socialist system itself, at least statistically) - but if we are not careful we will degenerate into a corporatist (the correct word is fascist, but I dare not use it for fear of the inevitable yokel asking 'but where are the jackboots') system of health care, such as seen in the medical-industrial complex in the United States of America. A healthy market, for those unfamiliar with agorism, is a completely untaxed and completely unregulated free market.

Hello everyone, my name is Zachary Young and I am running for office for London-Fanshawe in the Ontario Provincial Election. I am a Libertarian. I think it is manifestly clear that the political dialogue has been hijacked by far left intellectuals and special interests but while this extremely vocal minority may dominate the media and the parliament I do not feel this is the best course for Canada, nor the one which the people truly desire to be lead down. We shouldn't be asking ourselves "what new taxes can we soak out of the people" we should be asking "how can we cut taxes?" We shouldn't be wondering what new lavish social programs we should design, under the guise of "helping the poor" when in fact they do nothing of the kind; we should be asking ourselves, what current, unjustified agencies exist? What harmful regulations, subsidies and and barriors to trade can we erase? We shouldn't be saying "what new laws do we need" but rather "what unjust laws can we repeal". We should end the war on drugs, deregulate wherever safe and possible (the taxi industry is the most obvious example, it costs $100,000 to get a taxi license. Does this serve the interest of the taxi drivers? No. Does it serve the interests of the consumer? Absolutely not. It serves the interest of the companies that are established at the detriment of everyone else. We should encourage competition, not prohibit it). We should open all government monopolized industries to competition, and allow innovation and self interest to drive down prices, not the non existant good will of governance.