I.
Party
Principles
STATEMENT
OF PRINCIPLES
The
Family Coalition Party of Ontario adheres to principles
that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of Law:
a) Fundamental rights and the role of Government
1.
Three fundamental human rights that we all
possess by nature
are identified. All
other rights and responsibilities derive from these: the
right to life, the right to freedom, and the right to
own property.
These rights are not absolute, as individuals
have a responsibility not to infringe on the rights of
others. Each of these fundamental rights is further
defined and clarified below.
2.
The Family Coalition Party believes that
governments, by constitution, should issue laws and
policies only within the scope of protecting the above
fundamental human rights and those rights that are a
simple elaboration, or more specialized cases, of the
above fundamental rights.
b) Definitions and explanations of the fundamental human rights:
1.
The right
to life only pertains to human life:
Each human being has innate worth,
unique potential and inherent dignity from
conception to natural death.
All human beings need to be protected, by other
individuals and, if necessary by government, from any
threat to their life.
Without life, any other right is meaningless;
any other human activity or government activity
is meaningless.
The
family has an important and necessary role in protecting
and nurturing life.
This role makes the family, rather than the
individual, the basic building block of our society.
When families are strong and prosperous,
democracy and economic enterprise flourish.
2.
The right
to freedom illustrates that people are not mere
objects of political manipulation, but subjects and
agents responsible for their own destiny.
The right to freedom makes several other
subordinate rights possible: the right to association,
the right to elect government representatives, freedom
of speech, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion,
freedom of the media, freedom from involuntary servitude
and the right to own property.
3.
The right
to own property, although subordinate to the above
fundamental rights, makes several other rights possible:
the right to free use and exchange of currency or
assets, the right to free trade, the right to free
enterprise, etc.
The
right to own property, and the principle of reward for
work performed, also create economic prosperity, by
creating incentive, hope and opportunity for people to
pursue their goals, express their individual
capabilities and achieve their own potential.
4.
Adherence of elected representatives to the
protection of the above fundamental rights supersedes,
in case of conflict, any obligation to represent the
opinions of the majority of their constituents.
Fundamental rights and questions of fundamental justice
are not determined by opinion polls.
c) Further explanations on the role of government and its
responsibilities:
1.
The FCP adheres to principles that recognize the
supremacy of God and the rule of law, natural law and
just human law. The
FCP believes in the democratic principle of subsidiarity:
Government is an institution created by people, while
people's fundamental rights are inherent in every human
being as each one is created by God.
The role of government is restricted to what
individuals and private organizations cannot do by
themselves. The
Family Coalition Party is committed to restricting its
own policies and rule accordingly, were it elected to
govern.
2.
Government is therefore granted the task of:
- issuing
laws to protect individuals when their fundamental rights are threatened
by
other
individuals or by any civil or military authority
(legislative authority),
- policing
compliance to the law (executive authority), and
- the administration
of justice should the law be broken (judicial authority), to
deter individuals and prevent convicted criminals from
violating someone else's fundamental rights.
3.
Government should be restricted, by constitution,
from issuing laws and policies with regard to the so
called "positive rights", which imply
involuntary servitude, whereby one individual or a class
is forced to serve others.
4.
Government has a tendency to grow.
No matter which Party is in power, well-meaning
politicians tend to create new and lengthy legislation
which normally adds to existing legislation.
In the same manner politicians tend to alleviate
their responsibilities by creating Agencies, Boards and
Commissions and delegating their responsibilities to
bureaucrats who have no accountability to the people.
In addition, once government undertakes an
activity, it is seldom terminated.
Constitutional limitations to the amount of money spent
and taxes levied by government are means by which such
tendencies can be controlled and government fiscal
responsibility can be achieved.
II.
Party Constitution
01.0
Organization AND Goals
01.1
The Party shall be known as the "Family
Coalition Party of Ontario" / "Parti de la
Coalition des Familles de l'Ontario" and it shall
be known by its acronym "FCP" / "PCF"
01.2
The FCP Official Documents consist of the
following 3 parts:
Part
I: The Statement of Principles of the FCP
Part II: The Constitution of the FCP (2 sections: Party and Constituency
Constitutions)
Part III: The FCP Policy Booklet
Any
Amendment or Addition to any part of the FCP Official
Documents requires ratification at an Annual/General
Meeting (see sections 10.1 and 10.4) or by letter ballot
(see sections 10.3 and 10.4). The FCP policies
specified in Part III must derive and be consistent with
the Principles stated in Part I.
01.3
The goal of the FCP is the renewal of Ontario
through governing according to the principles and
policies outlined in these Official Documents.
It intends to hold political office through
democratic means, through the election of
FCP candidates to the Ontario Legislature.
(The
entire text of the Constitution is available to party
members upon request)
III.
Party
Policies
1.
THE FAMILY
1.1
DEFINITION OF FAMILY
A family is defined as those individuals related by
ties of blood, marriage or adoption. Marriage is the
union between a woman and a man.
The
Family Coalition party would revoke all legislation that
re-defined the term “spouse” to include same-sex
persons, within the limits imposed by federal law.
1.1.2
Nuclear and extended family
The
term "family" is used herein as a generic term
to include both the "nuclear family" and the
"extended family".
1.1.2.1
The nuclear family
A
nuclear family may be composed of:
a) a married couple with their biological or
adopted children, or
b) a single parent with his biological children,
or children adopted during a previous marriage.
1.1.2.2
The extended family
An
extended family may include all those persons who are
related by marriage, blood or adoption.
1.1.3
Children of un-married couples
The
government is also concerned about the welfare of
biological or adopted children of unmarried couples and
will act consequently in order to protect them when
necessary.
For heterosexual unmarried couples to be treated
as married couples with respect to benefits for
themselves and for their children, they only need to
acquire a marriage certificate and register their
relationship. If
they wish not to register their relationship, then any
claim to benefits and any proceeding resulting from
their separation will be handled according to common
law.
1.1.4
Default shared parenting
The
Family Coalition Party supports default shared parenting
and custody in the event of marriage breakdown and
divorce.
1.2
ROLE OF THE FAMILY
The family has an important and necessary role in
protecting and nurturing life. This role makes the
family, rather than the individual, the basic building
block of our society. When families are strong and
prosperous, democracy and economic enterprise flourish.
Strong families lessen problems in many
areas of society; e.g., marital separations,
child abuse, teenage rebellion leading to alcohol and
drug abuse, teenage pregnancies, runaways, school
drop-outs, vandalism, theft or violence.
1.2 1
Institutional
value of marriage
The Family Coalition Party supports the institutional
value of marriage, being the union between a woman and a
man to the exclusion of all others. Only
this definition will be used in the provision of spousal
benefits and for any program funded or administered by
the government.
1.2.2
The ideal relationship
The Family Coalition Party affirms that marriage is
the ideal basic relationship for a nuclear family.
1.2.3
Role and responsibilities
The Family Coalition Party affirms that the role and
the responsibilities of the family are directed towards:
a) forming a community of persons,
b) promoting life (procreating children and safeguarding
the elderly), and
c) participating in the development of society (nurture
and education of children, participation in the
political process, creation of wealth, charitable deeds,
etc.).
1.3
FAMILY PRINCIPLES
The Family Coalition Party defends and promotes the
family unit as the fundamental building block of our
society.
1.3.1
Social benefits
Strong family ties and stable relationships are
economically and socially beneficial leading to fewer
cases of single parent households, better job stability,
more productive members of society and decreased welfare
costs.
1.3.2
Government obligations
Government has a fundamental obligation to protect
and promote the well being of the family and family
members through measures of political, economic, social
and juridical character, which aim
at consolidating the unity and stability of the
family.
1.3.3
Parents' rights and duties
Parents have the original, primary and inalienable
right and duty to educate, discipline and care for their
children and therefore must be recognized as the primary
care givers of their children.
The state should not push its own political
agenda onto children in classrooms.
1.3.4
Equality in marriage
The Family Coalition Party recognizes that each
spouse, in the natural complementarity that exists
between man and woman, enjoys the same dignity and equal
rights within the marriage.
1.3.5
Fair family taxation
Ontario's tax laws must be reformed so as not to
discriminate against married couples who wish to have
one parent at home to raise their children, or to provide home care for disabled family member(s).
NOTE: For the party's policy on Family Taxation,
please see 1.5 FAMILY ECONOMY.
1.4
FAMILY
VALUES
1.4.1
Stability
The Family Coalition Party will lead in promoting the
benefits of stable relationships.
1.4.2
Dignity, independence, privacy and integrity
The Family Coalition Party supports and respects the
dignity, lawful independence, privacy, integrity and
stability of every family.
1.4.3
Harmony
The Family Coalition Party will introduce proven
programs to reduce family violence, which attacks the
very foundation of our society.
The Family Coalition Party will promote intact families
through public education programs, family counseling,
and public social agencies.
1.4.4
Respect
The Family Coalition Party recognizes and respects the
work of mothers in the nurturing of children.
This work has substantial value for the family
and for society.
1.5
FAMILY ECONOMY:
1.5.1
Family taxation and contributions
The
Family Coalition Party opposes unfair tax treatment of the
traditional family and discrimination against those family members
who provide child-care, elder-care, special needs and disabled care at home. The care-giving member of the family, who stays at home to provide the care, should be entitled to a Canada Pension Plan Grant for the period of care given. This policy will save government money, relieve bed and health care shortages, and will strengthen the family..
1.5.2
Day care
Parents
caring for their own young children should receive the
same tax relief now given only to those who use day
care.
1.6
FAMILY PROTECTION:
1.6.1
Children and Family Services
The
Family Coalition will limit the power of Children and
Family Services (old CAS) and have their powers fall
under the principles of fundamental justice. Due
process, innocent until proven guilty, substantiated
evidence, the right to face your accusers are some of
the principles that must be re-established.
1.6.2
Training
Require child
protective services workers to be trained in their duty
to protect the statutory and constitutional rights of
those they are investigating.
1.6.3
Requirement to advise
Require
child protective services personnel to advise
individuals subject to a child abuse and neglect
investigation of the complaint or allegation made
against them.
1.6.4
Citizen Review Panels
Require
"Citizen Review Panels" to provide for public
outreach and comment in order to assess the impact of
current procedures and practices upon children and
families in the community and in order to meet its
obligations.
1.6.5
Transparency and Accountability
All case summaries, findings and decisions, dispositions, but without names of persons, be made part of the provincial public record of the children and family services/child protective services/family courts. These records would be listed and published for public review of the internet.
2.
EDUCATION REFORM
2.1
Choice in education
Choice is to education what competition is to business.
It unleashes the pent-up creativity of educators, in
response to consumer demands. Just as competition works
to improve quality and lower prices, so taxpayers will
save money when parents are allowed to choose in the
education marketplace. Choice is the catalyst that will
drive other school reforms -- it will spark innovations
in teaching, management, and learning.
2.2
Excellence in education
Moreover, the entire level of society rises when any
of its major institutions strives for excellence instead
of mere adequacy, and choice is the mechanism that makes
excellence the goal for education.
2.3
Basic policies:
A.
The Family Coalition Party would encourage an
educational atmosphere that develops their physical,
intellectual and moral qualities. Students should be
encouraged to make sound moral judgment based on the
truth and a well-formed conscience.
B.
The Family Coalition Party believes that schools
should be more responsive to the needs of the students.
C.
The Family Coalition Party supports placing parents in
a decision-making role.
D.
The Family Coalition Party supports maintaining a
healthy competition among schools.
E.
The
Family Coalition Party will propose a fixed rate for
student loan repayment equal and not greater than the
Bank of Canada prime rate.
2.4
The Parental Choice System:
1.
Parents choose the school, public or privately
owned, for their children.
2.
The Government of Ontario provides a Child
Education Cheque for each child.
3.
The Government pays the amount of the Child
Education Cheque to the school selected by the parent.
This amount (per student/per year) is calculated by
dividing the total budget for education in Ontario by
the total number of students.
4.
Each privately owned school is free to set its
tuition fee.
5.
Any excess of the tuition fee over the amount of
the Child Education Cheque is borne by the parents.
6.
Each school must achieve minimum academic
standards and curriculum requirements, as set by the
Ministry of Education, in order to be certified.
7.
Each school, in addition to minimum requirements,
may add to its curriculum.
8.
The Ministry of Education administers
standardised tests at grades 5, 8, 10, and at the end of
high school. The results are sent to the parents and to
the schools (It is their responsibility to act
accordingly).
9.
The Family Coalition Party will allow home-schooling
families to cash any percentage of the education
vouchers reserved for their children, to be used for
purchasing books and for school expenses.
2.5
Immediate measures
The
Family Coalition Party supports the Parental Choice
System in Education, as described above.
However, the following measures, which deal with
the current public system of education shall be
immediately introduced in the legislature:
2.5.1
Freedom from sexual indoctrination
The
provincial government will remove from its public school
sexual education programs any and all references to
deviant sexual practices (e.g.: sodomy, lesbianism,
transvestitism, trans-sexualism, sado-masochism,
bestiality, polygamy, group sex, anonymous sex,
paedophilia, fetishism, etc.) that have the explicit or
hidden intent of normalizing, promoting or propagating
such practices. It
will also direct teachers and educators to refrain from
promoting such practices or presenting such practices as
normal.
2.5.2
Parental authority
The
provincial government will direct teachers and educators
to refrain from promoting ideas, using books or using
support materials, or external presentations that intentionally or unintentionally
may belittle or undermine the authority of parents, and the traditional nuclear family.
3.
ECONOMIC REFORM
3.1
The family as a resource
The
family is this country’s most important resource.
3.2
Government to foster a development environment
The
Ontario government has a responsibility to foster and
protect an environment in which the individual skills of
family members are developed to their full potential.
3.3
Free enterprise
It
is only in an ethical and moral free-enterprise economy that the creation
of wealth takes place and productivity is best achieved.
3.4
Basic policies:
A. The
Family Coalition Party would increase the personal
and spousal income tax exemption for Ontario income
tax purposes to $14,000/year.
B. The
Family Coalition Party would grant the
highest income spouse an additional specified
income tax exemption for each of the taxpayer's
dependent children, provided that these children do not
have any earned income of their own.
C. The
Family Coalition Party supports the long-term
removal of all measures that insulate industries,
businesses, financial institutions, professions and
trade unions from domestic and foreign competition.
D. The
Family Coalition Party supports orienting
provincial government activities towards the nurturing
of human and physical infrastructure for economic
development.
E. The
Family Coalition Party supports the development of
skills and knowledge, especially in the emerging
technologies. We would encourage cooperative training in
industry.
F. The
Family Coalition Party supports ethical technological and scientific development
through research aimed at particular industrial and
commercial objectives.
G. The
Family Coalition Party believes that government
should set a good example to private industry in its
employment practices. Employment should be on the basis
of competence and merit.
3.5
Specific
policies:
1. Reconsider the legislation on pay equity,
employment equity, and labour relations, with the intent
of creating a better, non-confrontational economic
climate and favouring business investments. Job applicants should be evaluated solely on the basis of
merit.
2. Create a responsible free-enterprise climate,
with government intervention limited to the enforcement
of the entrepreneur’s responsibilities in such areas
as work safety and protection of the environment.
3. Reform the school system, to prepare young people
for assuming the challenge of change and the
responsibility for innovation, to create a vibrant
economy in Ontario.
4.
Require government to reduce it’s deficit each
year by at least 20%. Failing that, the Premier must
call an election.
5.
Review non-governmental agencies receiving public
funding. If they can be sustained by private donations,
government funding would be eliminated.
6. Help the private sector to create jobs by
reducing taxes to stimulate investment and increase the
buying power of the average citizen.
7.
Work towards the elimination of
"universal" assistance programs at the Federal
level. Provincially, maintain only one assistance
program for the people in immediate and real need.
8.
Rescind social assistance to minors who can be
supported by their parents and who are not physically or
mentally disadvantaged.
9.
Remove the special privileges of politicians and
eliminate those benefits that cushion them against taxes
and inflation.
10. The
Family Coalition Party believes that employees
have the right to refuse to allow any portion of their
union dues to be paid to any cause which they do not
personally support outside of the contract agreement
with their employer .
11. The
Family Coalition Party will improve the quality of
education so everyone will be equipped with adequate
job-related skills for the 21st century.
12. The
Family Coalition Party advocates the removal of
inter-provincial barriers, so that more goods and
services can flow freely, thereby employing more people.
Promoting Ontario's products and services to other
countries must become a priority.
4.
HEALTHCARE
4.1
Government responsibility
Ontario
has a universal Medicare system which provides a
substantial buttress against unexpected disease-related
expenses for all citizens.
Ontarians enjoy an enviable standard of living,
and it is the responsibility of government to promote
healthy lifestyles, maintain a high quality of
healthcare facilities and guarantee accessibility to
them.
4.2
Medical Cost Reports
The Family Coalition Party will instruct the Ministry of Health to make available annually the healthcare costs paid on behalf of the indivdual taxpayer and his/her dependent(s).
4.3
Basic policies:
A. Private health care outside of basic care (e.g.:
elective procedures) must be totally paid by the
individual.
B. The
Family Coalition Party will not use public funds
for abortion, euthanasia and sex-change operations.
C. The
Family Coalition Party supports the expansion of
programs for midwives (in teams with doctors),
nurse-practitioners and physician-assistants, for
salaried service, in rural areas and in those
communities where the local Hospital Board deems it
necessary.
D. The
Family Coalition Party would ensure that consumers
have a choice between non-profit and private homecare
agencies. Strict standards must be maintained by the
government.
E. The
Family Coalition Party will require that the
members of Hospital Boards and two thirds of the members
of District Health Councils be elected in conjunction
with Municipal elections.
F.
The Family Coalition Party will remove the
restriction on the number of salaried medical teaching
positions in Ontario universities.
G.
The Family Coalition
Party will insist that medical professionals, health care system participants, agencies, groups and businesses be required to publish the results of all government-funded health studies, especially when that
information is necessary to protect the health of the
public.
Examples
include the information related to the transmission of
viruses (HPV/HIV), the link between abortion and breast
cancer, and the inadequacy of condoms against some
viruses, etc.
H.
The Family Coalition Party will insist that food nutrients and hydration must be provided, along with continuing ordinary care, to patients until natural death.
I.
The Family Coalition Party will promote ethical and moral palliative and hospice care assistance to families whose member is facing terminal illness.
4.4
Federal issues
The FCP will work in cooperation with the federal
government to:
1.
Remove present legal obstructions against physicians who
have graduated outside Canada, and permit them to
practice in Canada after passing the appropriate
Canadian examinations and after having spent a
designated time in an approved hospital under
supervision.
2.
Allow foreign physicians and nurses to obtain post
graduate training in Canada.
3.
Stop the restriction on the number of salaried medical
teaching positions in Ontario universities.
4.
Remove the requirement from the Royal Colleges of
Physicians for students to opt for general practice or a
specific specialty early in their training career.
4.5
Specific
policies:
1. The
Family Coalition Party will eliminate any ceiling
on doctors' fees.
2. Every person receiving OHIP benefits will receive
an itemized account of the cost of such benefits.
3. The
Family Coalition Party recognises and protects the right of
individual health-care workers to refuse to participate
in, or to support financially or otherwise, any action or ruling that brings them into non-compliance with their fundamental freedoms, such as their freedom of conscience and religion, as written in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1982.
4.
The Family Coalition Party will introduce HIV antibody
screening prior to marriage, on admission to any Ontario
hospital, and upon incarceration in any Ontario
correctional facility.
5.
The Family Coalition Party will fund hospitals through
a formula based more closely on the actual services
rendered. Exceptions will apply for medical treatments
lasting indefinitely. This formula will be
standardised across Ontario.
6.
The Family Coalition Party will strengthen the
Under-serviced Areas Training Program (UATP) providing
tuition, books, and living expenses for each year of
medical school in exchange for an equal number of years
in under-serviced areas.
7. The
Family Coalition Party will provide incentives for
family member care in the home, and for private enterprise to build and maintain more nursing
homes. Protective standards for such care must be maintained and audited by the
government.
8. The
Family Coalition Party will increase the number of
cancer centres in Ontario and will make sure that there
are enough specialists and technologists who can deal
with the growing need for cancer treatment.
9. The
Family Coalition Party will provide and make
available balanced information on preventive medicine,
healthy lifestyle, nutrition, natural supplements and
natural medicine. The Family Coalition Party will
reduce the total health-care cost by supporting proven
preventive medicine and natural medicine therapies. The Family Coalition Party will establish a College of Natural Medical Practitioners, composed of 60% of its Board elected by members of the natural medical practitioners' professions, and 40% appointed by the Provincial Government
10. The
Family Coalition Party would eliminate preferential treatment of pharmaceutical drug companies, and support natural supplements in its formulary wherever these can obtain equal or better results than chemically manufactured compounds.
11. The
Family Coalition Party will re-evaluate the role
of paramedical people (nursing and support staff) in the
delivery of patient care.
12.
The Family Coalition Party will set standards across
Ontario for the accounting of hospital costs, of
examinations made by each hospital and of budgetary
procedures, to reduce accounting fraud and deliver a
better quality of care.
13. The
Family Coalition Party recognizes the essential
duty of nurses, especially in acute care.
It will work with hospitals to ensure that
patients will not be subject to undue suffering caused
by nursing shortages.
14. Parents must be pre-informed and must consent to any medical
or health procedure involving their children, except in a life threatening emergency when there is no opportunity or time to contact the parent(s). In such cases, all reasonable efforts shall be made to contact the parent(s) while the emergency is in progress. A written report shall be issued for the parent(s) on the medical or health procedure performed.
4.6
Pro-Life Policies:
The
Family Coalition Party is in favour of fully supporting
pregnant women and is opposed to the termination of
pregnancies.
The
following measures, which fall under provincial
jurisdiction, shall be immediately introduced in the
legislature:
4.6.1.
SUPPORT OF PREGNANT WOMEN
The
Family Coalition Party will expand current government
programs in order to extend full support to pregnant
women, as needed, in the following areas: food, housing,
clothing and health needs.
The provincial government will also support those
voluntary organizations selected by pregnant women to
provide them with lodging and physical security,
psychological and spiritual counseling, education,
marriage preparation courses, parenting courses and
information resources.
4.6.2.
HEALTH CARE COVERAGE FOR THE CHILDREN IN THE WOMB
The Family Coalition Party will include in the list of procedures
covered by Ontario Health Insurance those procedures
intervening on children in the womb feasible using
current technology and without engaging in extraordinary
or experimental interventions.
Extraordinary or experimental interventions are
those where the risk of undesired outcomes far outweighs
the possible positive outcomes.
4.6.3.
ADOPTION TAX CREDITS
The Family Coalition Party will legislate sizeable additional
tax credits for legal and adoption fees, and medical test costs for those traditional nuclear families that choose to adopt
children.
4.6.4.
ABSTINENCE
The Family Coalition Party will support programs (e.g. Educational programs in schools) encouraging
sexual abstinence before marriage.
4.6.5.
INFORMED CONSENT
Doctors
doing induced abortions(1) in Ontario will be
required to inform the patient by providing her with a defined information package provided by provincial pro-life organizations consisting of the standardized statement for those considering abortion, and DVD video on stages of human development during pregnancy.
In
addition, the expectant mother shall be required to take
and view a sonogram of her baby at a private or public
facility accredited with the Ministry of Health.
[Note
(1): Procedures
that have the intent of saving the life of the mother
and do not have the intent of terminating the life of
the fetus, such as interventions due to ectopic
pregnancy or cancer of the uterus, are not classified as
abortions.]
4.6.6.
MANDATORY COOLING PERIOD
Doctors
performing abortions in Ontario will be required to
inform the Ministry of Health of any request for an
abortion procedure, and will be forbidden to proceed
with the abortion for at least 48 hours from such
registered time.
4.6.7.
PARENTAL CONSENT
When
the applicant for abortion is a minor, the doctor shall
require the parents or legal guardians of the expectant
mother to accompany the minor before the abortion
request is registered with the Ministry of Health.
4.6.8.
MANDATORY REPORTING OF COMPLICATIONS
Doctors
shall be required to report to the government of Ontario
any complications deriving from abortion, whether recent
or in the past. The
government shall publish this information together with
other health care statistics whenever it deems
appropriate, but at least once a year.
4.6.9.
FREEDOM OF CHOICE
The Family Coalition Party will make sure that alternatives are
found for those workers (doctors, nurses, pharmacists,
policemen, etc.) that for a reason of conscience choose
to opt out from a particular detail that relates to
abortion, or decide not to participate in an abortion
procedure, or choose not to prescribe a drug that
relates to abortion or contraception.
The provincial government will also make sure
that such workers are not penalized
in any way by their employer for having exercised
that choice.
4.6.10.
FUNDING
The Family Coalition Party will not use public funds for
injurious elective procedures.
[Definition:
"Injurious elective procedures" are those
procedures, such as abortion, euthanasia, female
circumcision and sex change operations, where the intent
is not the life and well being of the human being, but
mutilation, injury or death.]
4.6.11.
EXTRA BILLING
The Family Coalition Party will not allow extra billing for
injurious elective procedures.
4.6.12.
FUNDING OF PRIVATE CLINICS
The Family Coalition Party will not allow any direct or indirect
funding (such as funds collected through lotteries,
gambling or charity)
of private facilities performing injurious
elective procedures.
4.6.13.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
The Family Coalition Party will restore freedom of speech of pro
life individuals or groups, including their freedom to
demonstrate peacefully in front of hospitals, abortion
clinics or any other public place of their choice.
In
addition, the Family Coalition Party will urge the federal
government to restore full legal protection to all human
beings, from the moment of conception to natural death.
4.6.14.
EUTHANASIA
The Family Coalition Party will prevent the legalization and the practice of both voluntary and involuntary euthanasia and assisted suicide.
4.6.15.
ORGAN DONATIONS/HARVESTING
The Family Coalition Party rejects the idea of "implied consent" for organ donations and harvesting, as well as commercial trade in organs from donors who are coerced or forced to volunteer their organs out of financial necessity; or executing prisoners for organ donation commerce.
5.
SOCIAL
ASSISTANCE
5.1
Responsibility to care
The Family Coalition Party believes in a personal and collective
responsibility to care and provide for the basic needs
of people who are unable to care and provide for
themselves.
5.2
Personal growth and integration
Social
assistance must provide a broad range of opportunities
to promote personal growth and integration into the
community. A job, or a self employed occupation, is the
preferred form of employment to provide income, and is
one of the primary ways in which individuals become
integrated and participate in the life and development
of their community.
5.3
Self sufficiency
Social
assistance programs should not act as a disincentive for
an individual to reach self-sufficiency.
5.4
Basic policies:
A. The
Family Coalition Party supports merging the Family
Benefits Act and the General Welfare Assistance Act into
one piece of legislation, with one benefit structure
that covers all social assistance recipients.
B. The
Family Coalition Party supports opportunity
planning to be made available to all people with
disabilities for the broader purpose of community
living, including employment.
C.
The Family Coalition Party supports positive action to
identify social assistance fraud cases, where undeserved
benefits are received.
D. The
Family Coalition Party will rescind social
assistance to youth under the age of 18 who can be
supported by their parents.
E. The
Family Coalition Party will require people
receiving Social Assistance, who are capable to do so,
to perform community services or to get job training or
education, while receiving benefits.
F.
The Family Coalition Party does not believe that
Social Assistance recipients should give up part of
their benefits while receiving income from a part-time
occupation.
5.5
Specific
policies:
1. The
Family Coalition Party will encourage and support
at home daycare by an adult family member or, where in individual cases such is not possible, in private and independent daycare centres.
2. Parents in need will be reimbursed for daycare
expenses up to a prescribed monthly amount, whether for
services provided by registered daycare providers, or
for them, if they choose to stay at home.
3. The
Family Coalition Party will identify those parents
who are failing to provide support payments to their
spouses and require them to comply with the Law.
6.
THE
ENVIRONMENT
6.1
Collective responsibility
The
maintenance of a clean, safe and healthy environment is
our collective responsibility and is in the interest of
Ontario families for generations to come.
6.2
Basic policies:
A. The
Family Coalition Party will encourage industries
to reduce waste through government incentives and, where
necessary, through penalties.
At the same time, private initiatives for
re-using and re-cycling will be encouraged.
B. The
Family Coalition Party supports labelling products
as per their chemical content and genetic modification, as the consumer has often no option or knowledge of the toxic
chemicals and biologically engineered foods which may be included in consumer products, or in the food supply chain.
C. The
Family Coalition Party supports the use of natural
gas fuel, such as methane, which is inherently cleaner
than oil, has a higher ignition point, burns better, has
a proven safety record, reduces engine wear and greatly
reduces pollution to the environment.
6.3
Specific
policies:
1. The
Family Coalition Party will ban, as soon as
possible, the production, use, transportation, sale and
disposal of “persistent toxic chemicals” which
permanently damage the environment,
pose an unacceptable health risk and for
which no acceptable disposal solution has been
found. These
chemicals include PCBs, dioxin, CFCs and possibly other
chemicals classified as “persistent toxic”.
2.
The Family Coalition Party will encourage each Region
in Ontario to practice environmental stewardship and be responsible for the disposal of their
own household and industrial waste. Transportation of waste outside the Region will be discouraged. (Toxic waste remains
within the responsibility of the Province.)
3.
The Family Coalition Party will waive the provincial
sales tax on new vehicles being converted to natural
gas, and on the required vehicle conversion equipment.
4.
The Family Coalition Party will promote the usage of
natural gas powered vehicles in the employ of
Municipalities and all other levels of
government.
5.
The Family Coalition Party
would research the conversion of all coal burning generating stations over
to clean burning coal.
7.
LAW
AND ORDER
7.1
Protection first
Our
criminal justice system should place the protection of
law-abiding citizens and their property before all other
objectives. The
rights of the victims should be upheld over the rights
of criminals.
7.2
Promoting values
The
most effective way to prevent crime is by promoting
family values, personal responsibility and character.
7.3
Personal accountability
Crime
is not a social disease. Everybody should be personally accountable for one's criminal
actions.
7.4
Rehabilitation
Correctional
institutions should be places of rehabilitation, where
the inmates are taught discipline, responsibility and a
trade. After
their release, they should be able to contribute to
society in a meaningful way.
7.5
Basic policies:
A. The
Family Coalition Party insists that the legal
provisions against pornography be strictly applied.
B. The
Family Coalition Party supports measures aimed at
curbing physical violence against a person or persons in public and private places, such as: on the street, in the family, and in the schools.
C. The
Family Coalition Party would review the parole and
probation programs and allow the full force of the Law
to take effect.
D.
The Family Coalition Party
will
end judicial activism, whereby judges at various levels
effectively make laws usurping the power of a
democratically elected Legislature.
7.6
Specific policies:
7.6.1
The
Family Coalition Party will require a person’s
juvenile record to be released upon the first adult
conviction
7.6.2.
The
Family Coalition Party will require a person who is
convicted of a violent offence for which he/she has been
previously convicted to serve the balance of the
previous unserved sentence.
In addition, the maximum sentence for the current
conviction will be doubled, without possibility for
parole.
7.6.3.
The
Family Coalition Party will enact legislation safeguarding the freedom of conscience for Justices of the Peace and for those holding Ontario Certificates of Registration to solemnize marriages, and to re-establish the right to give notice to opt-out of registering same-sex marriages, and to ensure the security of position and certification, in keeping with the practices of the Ontario Labour Relations Act.
7.6.4.
The
Family Coalition Party will enact legislation establishing the Ontario Video Game Review Board (OVGRB). The OVGRB will establish a system of categorization of video games based on the Entertainment Software Rating Board model, to be passed in legislation to regulate video game sales by age; and will designate a threshold for classifying violent and sexually explicit video games as restricted. Sale to, or possession of restricted video games by minors shall carry the same penalties as tobacco sale to, or possession by minors. Where applicable, the laws against child pornography are to be also fully applied.
7.6.5.
The
Family Coalition Party will support legislation providing for sentencing of violent offenders to restrict or prohibit their access to the internet, movies, and video games, at the discretion of the court.
8.
HOUSING
8.1
First home ownership
The
cost of housing directly affects the finances of every
family. Many young families and single parents cannot
afford stepping into the housing market, even at the
lowest level. Many families have no other option but
renting, often receiving some form of government
assistance, but with no hope of improving their
financial situation or creating any equity for
themselves.
8.2
Environment for raising children
Many
families, because of financial need, are forced to live
in environments that are not conducive to raise
children.
8.3
Basic policies:
A.
The Family Coalition Party believes that by
introducing new and innovative low-cost housing
projects, new home buyers may be given the option to
invest in a first low-cost, low mortgage house and
initiate investing, instead of paying rent.
B. The
Family Coalition Party will encourage private
builders to implement such plans, mainly for young
families, single parents and senior citizens, and
include them, in low proportion, within medium level
residential areas.
8.4
Specific policies:
1. In high-density urban areas, the
Family Coalition Party will propose houses designed with the specific
purpose of using the available space both during the day
and during the night.
The great reduction in floor space will
considerably reduce the total house cost.
2. The
Family Coalition Party will envisage monthly
mortgage payments for such low cost houses that would
compare favorably with monthly rental bills.
3. The
Family Coalition Party will encourage the
construction of such houses dispersed in residential
areas, by
proposing good looking “duplex” designs that could
be placed on standard single lots and appear as single
detached houses with one garage.
4. The
Family Coalition Party will encourage seniors to
remain in their own homes.
5 After the supply of houses has substantially
increased, the Family Coalition Party will gradually
phase-out rent controls.
9.
AGRICULTURE
9.1
The family farm
The
Family Coalition Party has always believed that the
family farm is one of the basic building blocks of
Ontario’s economy.
Legislation to both protect and encourage the
development of agriculture will insure the stability of
rural communities, and help ensure that there will be a
continued good supply of quality produce at affordable
prices.
9.2
Specific policies:
1. The
Family Coalition Party will eliminate the Land Tax
Rebate by removing the education portion of taxes from
agricultural land, and add education taxes to taxable
incomes.
2. The
Family Coalition Party will propose “Right to
Farm” legislation.
The farming sector must be free to operate
responsibly, without interference regarding standard
farm operating practices.
3. Environmental protection:
a.
The Family Coalition Party will promote the
responsible management of livestock waste, to protect
our water resources from contamination.
b.
The Family Coalition Party will protect existing land
in agricultural use from urban and industrial expansion.
c.
The Family Coalition Party will continue to support
the responsible use of approved chemicals in
agriculture.
10.
GOVERNMENT
REFORM 10.1
The burden of government
The
burden of government today has reached absurd limits.
The Ontario government is many billions of
dollars in debt. Individuals
and families are taxed more than the value of the
services they receive from government.
Ontario will prosper only if we are willing to
exercise personal responsibility and fiscal restraint.
10.2
Basic policies:
A. The
Family Coalition Party will study the possible
privatisation of crown corporations that do not provide
essential services to the public.
B. The
Family Coalition Party will reduce government
spending by reducing bureaucracy through attrition.
C.
The Family Coalition Party will initiate a complete
review of regional governments and possibly phase them
out within five years.
10.3
Specific policies:
1.
The Family Coalition Party will reduce the budgets of
all government Agencies, Boards and Commissions by 10%
the first year and initiate a review the second year
with a view to eliminating as many of them as possible.
2. The
Family Coalition Party will reduce personnel in
government ministries by about 5% per year through
attrition.
3. The
Family Coalition Party will eliminate public
funding of opinion polls and of non-essential government
advertising.
4. The
Family Coalition Party will totally eliminate
public funding for special interest groups.
11.
ELECTORAL
REFORM
11.1
More accountable government
The
government must be able to carry out the mandate given
to it by the voters.
However, once in power, it cannot forget the will
and the needs of large sections of the population
represented by legal political parties, nor can it
forget the will of individual citizens.
11.2
Basic policies:
A. The
Family Coalition Party is in favour of a more
proportional system of representation to be implemented
in the Ontario Election Act.
B.
The Family Coalition Party will make it possible for
voters to get questions of vital concern on a provincial
referendum ballot.
C.
The Family Coalition Party supports changing the
parliamentary rules to allow more free votes in the
Ontario Legislature.
D.
The Family Coalition Party supports a
"recall" mechanism to remove from office MPPs
who do not represent the interests of their
constituents: If
more than 50% of the people who voted in that
constituency in the last provincial election would sign
a petition for recall, a by-election must be called.
E.
Party leaders should not, and need not, run as
candidates in a riding, but should represent all of
Ontario. The
Family Coalition Party will reform the Ontario Representation
Act to allow party leaders to sit in the Ontario
Legislature as MPP's whenever their party has obtained
at least 5% of the popular vote across Ontario.
The method of electing the Premier of Ontario
would not change. The premier is the leader of the party that gained the
highest number of seats in the last election.
11.3
Specific policies:
1.
The Family Coalition Party will require the government
to initiate an auditor's report within eight months
prior to an election, to be made public when the
election is called.
2. The
Family Coalition Party will change the election
act to allow only individual voters to support political
candidates and parties, within the current limits
established by law.
Only individual voters will be eligible to
contribute and receive tax receipts, before and during
an election. Organisations,
associations, unions and corporations do not vote, thus
it is not appropriate for them to act as a channel for
the flow of extra money to a particular candidate or
party.
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