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Libertarian Party of Canada candidates in the 1993 Canadian federal election

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objectivism. On a shoestring budget, he managed to run a highly visible campaign calling for a vast reduction in the size and scope of government, reduction of the deficit and national debt in part by cutting government programs and spending drastically and selling off crown corporations and land, and with it ending costly government red tape which impeded entrepreneurship, and reducing taxes to a point where they could sustain the only valid federal government functions, namely maintaining an armed forces to protect us from invasion from without, and a system of objective laws and courts to prosecute crimes where violence force and fraud were involved and to arbitrates where private means of arbitration failed, and a police system to protect citizens from force and fraud and enforce objective laws. He maintained a pro-life stance, believing that all rights are rooted in the sanctity of the right to life, which begins at conception and continued until natural death and that all rights stand or fall on that right, which may not be deprived of any individual except in self defense. He opposed Capital Punishment. He was and remains a staunch opponent of the Goods and Services tax (now HST-Harmonized Sales tax) imposed by the Mulroney Government. He finished 6th in a field of 7 with 438 votes.
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has been a Libertarian Party candidate in two federal elections and one provincial election. He described himself as an industrial project co-ordinator in 1988 and as an unemployed draftsman in 1993. In 2000, he was elected to a three-year term on the Ontario Libertarian Party's ethics committee.
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was 28 years old and working in international trade as a food broker when he ran for the Libertarian Party of Canada in the 1993 Canadian General election in the riding of Vaudreuil. He campaigned under the banner of "Lower Taxes and Less Government" and leaned toward Ayn Rand's philosophy of
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community. The charges against him included owning a "common bawdy house and possessing and selling obscene matter" (
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Stenhouse was one of seven men arrested in the 1981 Toronto bathhouse raid, a landmark event in Toronto's
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and turned its downstairs bars and its courtyard into prominent locations for Toronto's gay community.
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lists him as a thirty-five-year-old sheet metal worker, while a report from the
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community. He graduated from the Food and Hotel Administration course at the
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He later participated in the 2002 "Good Health through Good Governance"
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His 1993 campaign was focused on support for government downsizing (
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in 1999, and the bars and courtyard were closed the following year.
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Kenny has campaigned for the Libertarian Party of Canada and the
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Baronikian was raised the Parkdale—High Park riding. He has a
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on a total of three occasions. A newspaper report from the
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in 1976, and opened Crispins restaurant two years later (
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at 20% of income and the repeal of motorcycle helmet and
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Index

Libertarian Party of Canada
1993 federal election
Vaudreuil
Brant
1988 federal
Brant
Libertarian
Derek Blackburn
New Democratic Party
1990 provincial
Brantford
Libertarian
Brad Ward
New Democratic Party
1993 federal
Brant
Libertarian
Jane Stewart
Liberal
Parkdale—High Park
Master of Education
Ph.D.
Professional Engineer
Liberal
Jesse Flis
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