Note as of Jan 26, 2015: In retrospect, I think this is an incorrect idealization of history, but there is, I believe real truth to the point that we’re going to be wealthier and better off in every way if we are allowed to trade freely and do business freely and fund our own projects freely (without “capitalist” monopolists using government to restrict us–which is what they always tried to do–and they always tried to send us off to war also).

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November 15 Debate (Agincourt Collegiate)
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Canadian history is a mixture of good and bad. We’ve had colonialism, imperialism, mercantilism – and we’ve had socialism.

But what we forget in all the propaganda in Ontario about government services, is that what built our hospitals, what sustains our standard of living, what provides us with a better life, with more food, with more medicines is FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM.

And the love for our fellow man that built the few hospitals we have was expressed through private wealth that was accumulated in what used to be basically a free-market society.

The Free Market is a voluntary cooperative system that allows for freedom – for the full expression of human action, desires and needs – for the free exchange of health products and services, for saving the capital that is needed to invest in new facilities.

It allows everyone to accumulate the wealth they need to sustain themselves, their families and the poor.

Our current system is failing us.

Vote Libertarian, vote Alan Mercer. Thank-you.

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