Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock Provincial Candidates Coverage-Gene Balfour Libertarian Party | Kawartha 411 - Pamela Vanmeer:
May 25, 2022 - "The provincial election is coming up on June 2, 2022. We asked each of the local candidates the same questions and are printing their answers in full in the order received. Here is [Gene] Balfour, Libertarian Party.
"I am a retired business professional with a B.Sc. in Kinesiology ... with a work history beginning in the health and physical fitness sector. My career also included 4 years with IBM Canada ... then the next 36 years as a professional recruiter in the IT sector.... In 2007, I joined the Ontario Libertarian Party (OLP). Since then, have been a Less Government Libertarian candidate in 8 federal and provincial elections and led the OLP’s efforts in the 2018 election as its Chairman; we fielded 116 candidates for the 124 electoral ridings under my leadership.
What are the three top local issues in your opinion?
"Government causes of inflation. The high and rising cost of living has its root causes in government policies and their enforcement institutions. 'Back off government' is a slogan you occasionally see on signs. It advises the best way to unshackle our businesses from government-imposed restrictions and to free up their entrepreneurial abilities to deliver goods and services in a cost-effective manner.
"Government disrespect for our citizens. Our Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms have been ignored repeatedly and we have no way to hold government authorities to account for these violations. Too many past voters have chosen politicians who planned to expand the role of governments in our lives. This mistake has enabled elected politicians to assume far too much authority and non-elected bureaucrats like public health officials to have too much influence on public policies such as broad lockdowns as well as mask and vaccine mandates. The assumption of pandemic 'emergency powers' by Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford has highlighted the enormous current risks of too much government to Canadian democracy. Just ask a trucker if he thinks too much power resides in the public sector.
"Government’s compulsive need to indoctrinate everyone. It starts with our children in public schools. It continues with our adult population through legacy media and social media corporations. Our public health officials also stepped up to feed the government’s preferred fear-mongering narratives during the pandemic; the public listened knowing that these officials hold monopoly control over all of the public health institutions upon which they depend exclusively. All of these institutions share two things in common: their funding originally comes from taxpayers; the people who ultimately control their paycheques are elected politicians like Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford....
What is your stance on those issues and your proposed solutions?
"If Big and Bigger Governments are the root cause of most society’s ailments, then Less Government is the only realistic antidote. Libertarians would repeal every piece of legislation that has awarded monopoly powers to government services in Education, Media, and Health-related sectors. This will allow competition in these sectors on an unbiased playing field. The Libertarian Non-Government Options plan will establish a vibrant market of strong competitors in those sectors providing every citizen with the choice to patronize which of many governments and non-government service providers will meet their needs best and pay accordingly. This plan is described in greater detail here https://libertarian.on.ca/platform/2022."
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