From the Western Standard “Shotgun Blog”:

Libertarian Party leader uses free CBC airtime to take on Harper’s record

Two-minute script:

I’m Dennis Young, leader of the Libertarian Party. I’m running against Stephen Harper in Calgary South West to contrast the Conservative record against our agenda for economic and personal liberty.

When Harper was a Reform MP, he fought against the over-regulation of safe, natural healthcare products. Now that he’s in power, he no longer cares about freedom of choice in healthcare, and instead introduced legislation that would put the government in control of herbal supplements.

Harper has ignored millions of average Canadians and even members of his own caucus who believe our marijuana laws are unjust, unfair and need changing. Harper’s plan for a Bush-style war on drugs will fill our prisons with non-violent marijuana users and escalate the violence on our streets.

Ignoring the advice of economists and tax experts, Harper has been tinkering with the GST. This is political opportunism, not good tax policy. The Libertarian Party would introduce a low, flat income and corporate tax that would make our tax system fairer, simpler and more efficient.

On April 5, 1995, Stephen Harper was the only Reform MP to support Bill C-68, the legislation that created the firearms registry. This legislation has made criminals out of thousands of law-abiding farmers and hunters. The registry must be scrapped, but can Harper really be trusted to do this?

The Libertarian Party will fight to keep abortion safe and legal, but we also feel a compromise is needed to ensure that the deeply held views of pro-life Canadians are respected. If elected, I will work to protect the freedom of conscience of pro-life medical workers and taxpayers by getting the federal government out of the abortion business.

The Libertarian Party believes Canadians can be trusted with economic and personal liberty. If you share our vision for Canada, vote for the Libertarian Party.

30-second script:

I’m Dennis Young, leader of the Libertarian Party. As a former soldier and policeman, I bring real world experience and conservative values to my campaign against Stephen Harper in Calgary South West.

Harper broke his promise to seniors to not tax income trusts; he’s responsible for creating the biggest and most wasteful government in Canadian history; and he actually voted for the national firearms registry.

Stephen Harper is not a conservative.

Vote for economic and personal liberty. Vote for the Libertarian Party.

For more info on the attacks on health freedom – resistance needs to be kept up in the face of potential new legislation by the next government – see http://stopc51.com

September 27th, 2008

Comments for Libertarian Party Leader on CBC

• Jean-Christophe ROUX

September 28th, 2008 at 8:48 am

Conservative values are not Libertarian values; Dennis Young is starting to look like Bob Barr. That’s not good. He’d better write that “Harper is a Conservative and that Conservatism is a breed of statism and as such should be rejected.”

• Tatiana (americanignorance.com)

October 7th, 2008 at 9:05 am

great post hope to see some additional comments next Tuesday…see ya