Hello! Running for office london-fanshawe

[Zachary Young]

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.

[geoffrey]

Now this is a guy I can support. Give 'em hell buddy, you stand a snowball's chance in hell but good on you for trying.

I think there are far more important industries than taxi's however... why not focus on telecoms and banks? Saving $5 on cab fare doesn't get you votes. Saving hundreds a year on banking fees and phone bills does.

Are you running under the Libertarian party or are you going solo?

[August1991]

First of all, I don't think this is how you go about changing society in a democracy. Libertarians will probably never elect an MP and they will certainly never form a government.

Second, it is wrong to say that all regulations and taxes are bad. We need government to accomplish many tasks. Libertarians look at a forest fire and conclude that we should rid the world of fire.

[geoffrey]

They'll never form a government, and likely never elect an MP, but they could potentially be an important voice, say for individual freedoms, something really ignored in some way by all the current major parties.

The NDP has made a living out of being a similar voice from the left. Why couldn't we see that from the other side?

Pragmatically, your going to need taxes, laws and government. But it'd be nice to see some balance from the non-big government side. Which is currently non-existant.

[Rue]

In response to Zachary Young's statements which I have placed in quotation marks;

"I think it is manifestly clear that the political dialogue has been hijacked by far left intellectuals and special interests"

The above statement is a ridiculous subjective negative generalization. if you are this quick to label and lump people into negative categories based on your subjective perceptions I think anyone would be a fool to waste a vote on you. If anything the above statement shows you are intolerant and close minded and are quick to judge people you think you disagree with precisely the qualities a politician should not have.

"...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."

So if I take out the reference to far left intellectuals and replace it with the reference, Jews, Gays, Catholics,

Muslims, aboriginals, etc., would you say such a thing or would you realize if you referred to anyone other then far left intellectuals it could be construed as hate mongering? I am curious how you single out far left intellectuals but not far right ones. I also note while you are quick to label people as far left, you don't define what you define as far left. As well your reference to special interests is also left deliberately vague.

It is a classic example of inciting hatred when one uses vague ambiguous references that make negative generalizations about a targetted group but the actual specific of the group is left open ended so you can attract as many people looking to blame others for their problems as is possible in your message.

Oh but I know you only meant sociology students at York right?

" social programs ...do nothing of the kind"

I noticed you did not take the time to say certain social programs, you simply attacked everyone of them. Again that proves you are not only intellectually lazy but someone I would never vote for. If you do not have the ability to show people you can differentiate something good from something bad, and simply lump it all under one category, it shows precisely the simplistic, rigid, stereotypical thinking pattern that one would not want in a politician. Politicians we would hope can see nuances and the grey between the black and white. There job is about serving ALL their constituents not just the ones who think like them or who do NOT need social programs.

You Sir with due respect with such a generalization show how intolerant you are. Would you like me to tell all the seniors of Canada you feel their getting CPP should be scrapped? How about War Veterans?

Oh but I know, any one who needs social assistance, is a lazy good for nothing parasite and they can eat cake right-until they come in your neighbourhood and rob you, then you are the first screaming for more police and lights on your streets.

Yah been there done that.

"We should end the war on drugs..."

Right this coming from someone who does not believe in social programs. Oh how I love a consistent politician. Wait don't tell me, we can end the war on drugs without social programs.

"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.'

O.k. so there we go. we will deregulate the entire pharmaceutical industry and make the sale of all drugs of any kind to anyone legal and there will be no safety standards requireed. I will just trust the pharmaceutical interests to do what is right for me. Likewise with the fiood industry. No food manufacturer would ever manufacture food unsafe for me.

"We should encourage competition, not prohibit it"

Yes that is precisely why I would encourage anyone in your riding to assure other candidates run!

"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."

Yes. As soon as you are elected you will sit down with all the members of the world-wide oil cartel for starters and say-stop.-but since you don't believe in government intervention, you won't intervene you will just "tell' them.

Anyone who takes what you have presented seriously in my opinion needs to work in a soup kitchen, prison, women's shelter, hospital, legal aid or community centre or go to Afghanistan for ONE day.

You state the simplistic things youd o precisely because you take all the things you quickly dismiss as unimportant for granted. All the things you dismiss and take for granted are precisely the things that enable you to make such self indulgent simplistic comments.

More simply put-we all hate taxes and over-regulation. We also all hate going to the dentist or getting pap smears or prostate exams? Its easy to state the obvious but until you find some better way for me to check my prostate instead of just telling me what I know that having someone shove their hand in my

brains, means very little.

Here try something specific such as;

If you vote for me I will make sure doctor's have to m anicure their finegrnails.