ONTARIO PROVINCIAL CONFEDERATION OF REGIONS PARTY

The 'Ontario Provincial Confederation of Regions Party' is a minor political party in Ontario, Canada, the provincial branch of the now-defunct Confederation of Regions Party of Canada. The party was founded in May 1990, two years after the federal CoR was dissolved, and remains the last Confederation of Regions Party in Canada.
It is ironic that the CoR survives only in Ontario, when the original ''raison d'etre'' of the federal CoR was to promote the rights of regions other than Ontario and Quebec.

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Party platform

Election results

Party leaders

See also

Party platform

The party campaigns on the promotion of direct democracy, protection of Canadian heritage and environmental sustainability, while opposing urban sprawl onto farmland, 'big business' and unionization. The party's proposed health care plan would "give individuals more responsibility over their own health care", however, it would not support a two tier health care system.
If elected, the party would replace the Ontario Civil Code with a common law system, hold a referendum on the French Language Services Act, and halt all multicultural funding.

Election results

Results of recent elections for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

Year of election	# of candidates	# of seats won	# of votes	% of popular vote
1990	33	0	75,873	1.9%
1995	6	0	14,108	0.4%
1999	2	0	282	0.01%
2003	1	0	293	0.01%

It is worth noting that in the 1990 election, CoR candidates in Algoma, Cochrane South, Nickel Belt, Sudbury, Sudbury East and Sault Ste. Marie placed ahead of Ontario Progressive Conservative Party candidates.

Party leaders

Dean Wasson has been the party's only leader, heading the party in the 1990 election. The party has not fielded a leader in any subsequent election, considering itself to be a grass roots organization, and will choose a leader if a caucus is won. The party's one candidate is nominated in the 2003 election - Richard Butson - is, however, often cited as the de facto leader.

See also

★ Ontario Provincial Confederation of Regions Party offical website