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Anyone know a Libertarian in South East Canada?

Started by citizen_142002, December 24, 2006, 09:49 PM NHFT

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citizen_142002

I've been trying to recruit Canadians for the FSP. I've been on the Libertarian Party of Canada forums for some time. There are some folks there from West Canada, as well as Quebec and Ontario.

I've been really hard pressed to find anyone from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, or Labrador. I have a personal interest in visiting these places sometime. I find them intriguing since they're right next door.

Does anyone know any liberty lovers in these provinces?

aries

About half the population. Half of them are secessionist, the other half are just fed up with high Canadian taxes. Quebec was one of the first provinces to re-legalize private insurance after the socialist system came out, IIRC (many NH/VT/NY residents go there for dental or medical help)... It's a good place to go shopping - prices, except in touristy Montreal are about the same as the US, and of course being a US resident you can get your sales tax refunded at the border (if you spend over $200).

I don't personally know any Libertarians but in my experience at LEAST half of the residents of L'Estrie are, to some degree.

Atlas


Braddogg

Libertarians are everywhere.  There's Stefan Molyneux, of course, who lives in Canada.  When I was in Israel, I met some activists from the Shinui party, and they seemed pretty libertarian.

Pat McCotter

Quote from: Braddogg on December 27, 2006, 03:51 PM NHFT
Libertarians are everywhere.  There's Stefan Molyneux, of course, who lives in Canada.  When I was in Israel, I met some activists from the Shinui party, and they seemed pretty libertarian.

From Wikipedia:
Shinui (?????) (original full name: Tenua le-Shinui ve Yozma and then to Shinui-Mifleget ha-Merkaz) is a Zionist, secular and anti-clerical, free market liberal party in Israel. Shinui is a member of the Liberal International. In Hebrew, the word Shinui literally means "reform" or "change". In the election of 2003, it gained 15 out of 120 Knesset seats, making it the third-largest party, behind Likud and Labour, but dramatically plummeted off of the political map only three years later in the 2006 elections. The party suffered a severe split in early 2006 that saw the departure of leader Tommy Lapid and most of the party's MKs. The party's new leader is Ron Levintal.


Braddogg

Quote from: Pat McCotter on December 27, 2006, 04:07 PM NHFT
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Yep, that's them (apologies to those who don't get Hebrew symbols to come up on their computer).