{"id":12455,"date":"2017-10-06T09:49:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrca.ca\/?page_id=12455"},"modified":"2022-04-10T18:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T22:53:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ontario-alliance.ca\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ontario Alliance<\/strong> (French: Alliance de l’Ontario<\/em>) is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario<\/em>, Canada. It was formed in 2017, as a political response to a lack of local, regional and populist voice for the people of Rural and Northern Ontario that has led to widespread regional disparity, a party to represent the rest of Ontario versus the Toronto elite and their Big Three at Queen’s Park political agenda. The Ontario Alliance also believes Queen’s Park needs to be a stronger voice for Ontario versus Ottawa in protecting and preserving its provincial rights, responsibilities and powers from a centralized federal government.<\/p>\n The grassroots pro Ontario first agenda party is ideologically aligned with other Canadian provincial third parties like the Saskatchewan Party, but the two parties are organizationally independent and separate, though overlapping policy and orientation provide for much of the same commonalities. The party was originally established by a coalition of former provincial Progressive Conservative, Liberal, and federal Reform party members who sought to remove the socialist agenda of the Ontario New Democratic Party and the Wynne Liberal Government. The party find its origins in the spirit of Reformer William Lyon Mackenzie and the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion, where the Ontario Alliance identifies with the Reformers and sees the Big Three at Queen’s Park historically as the Family Compact. The Ontario Alliance also gets inspiration from the grassroots protest idea of the 1919 United Farmers of Ontario\/Ontario Independent Labour Government from the past and presently with the big tent idea of the Saskatchewan Party Government.<\/p>\n The current provincial party President is Joshua E Eriksen and the Executive Director for the Party is Gerrie Huenemoerder.<\/p>\n The Ontario Alliance began when many separate groups came together as one united movement to create a principled free enterprise alternative to the governing Wynne Ontario Liberals and its socialist agenda. Using the specific ideologies of localism, populism and regionalism, the Ontario Alliance cobbled a grand coalition grassroots party from disillusioned Liberals, Conservatives, and other independents, to agree to form a political alliance in time for the 2018 Ontario election. A farmer from the Central Ontario area riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound, William Cook<\/strong>, who is a former Reform Party of Canada member from 1990 to 2003 and federal Liberal Party of Canada member from 2013, had registered<\/em> the name “Ontario Alliance<\/strong>” soon after to create a new political home<\/em> for likeminded classical small ‘l’ liberals like himself and his supporters. Previous chief of staff for Ottawa City Councillor Rick Chiarelli, Jay Tysick, who is also a former Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario member and currently a federal Conservative Party of Canada member, had become disqualified and barred from standing as a candidate for nomination in the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton by the Ontario PC Party backroom. Being the first prospective candidate to have their nomination manipulated by party brass, allegedly with interference from former Ontario PC Party leader Patrick Brown, Tysick left the party and started looking for a new political home for likeminded traditional small ‘c’ conservatives like himself and his supporters. During the summer of 2017, Cook with his liberal support and Tysick with his conservative support, along with Joshua E. Eriksen on strategy, policy research and implementation analysis and Richard Naranowicz on finances, policy development and governance, founded the inner workings of the Ontario Alliance and worked together on its registration with Elections Ontario to become an officially registered provincial political party before the upcoming provincial election slated for the spring of 2017. The grassroots pro Ontario first agenda party is made up of several different kinds of people, groups and ideologies, though it has become a home mainly for disgruntled liberals, conservatives, reformers, and other grassroot independents, some democratic reform friendly New Democrats, free enterprise friendly Greens, and family values friendly Libertarians also currently find a home within the Ontario Alliance.<\/p>\n The Ontario Alliance<\/strong> outlines its principles<\/em> in a set of nine points<\/em>:<\/p>\n The Ontario Alliance<\/strong> outlines its planks in a 7-point platform<\/em> entitled “Bringing Ontario Back<\/em>: A Seven Point Plan towards a Better Ontario together!”. These planks include:<\/p>\nOntario Alliance: Origin<\/i><\/h3>\n
Ontario Alliance: Foundations<\/i><\/h3>\n
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