Official party Reform Party of Ontario

1 official party

1.1 2009 , 2010 by-election campaigns
1.2 2011–2015
1.3 subsequent activity

official party

the representative party of ontario formed , led bill cook, former reform ontario activist bruce—grey—owen sound. when name rejected in 2005, party intended revived ontario alternative, according elections ontario, name reserved joshua e. eriksen, student of political science @ redeemer college , mcmaster university in hamilton. however, federal reform party supporters no longer had possession of name reform party of ontario , name reclaimed provincial reformers 2007 election. bradley j. harness, cofounded federal ontario party of canada george burns in 2002, selected party leader, cook deputy leader , agriculture critic, , eriksen provincial party president.

the rpo ran 2 candidates: cook in bruce—grey—owen sound , harness in lambton—kent—middlesex. eriksen campaign manager, neither candidate gained many votes nor elected.

past party president donn korbin , chief financial officer andrew long pushed keep reform party of ontario true blueprint of common sense revolution era of ontario progressive conservatives. during era, mike harris , ontario pcs had won 2 majority governments. special interest groups ontario landowners association (ola) , rural revolution members had maintained hard right line rpo against ontario tories, led red tory moderate john tory.

joining forces, populist-based rpo , libertarian-based ola agreed on many common principles build unified northern rural ontario manifesto farmer , labourer. 3 basic principles identified: property rights, deamalgamation, , less government yet better governance . rpo party leader harness , president eriksen met ola president , current carleton—mississippi mills pc mpp jack maclaren , 8 other senior leaders group work out details. lanark—frontenac—lennox & addington pc mpp randy hillier considered crossing on reform in ontario legislature first member because of dissatisfaction tory s leadership.

according press, harness had worked out side deal under become deputy under hillier, if hillier joined reform ontario. hillier declined , denied involvement side deal, , strength of both organizations diminished.

2009 , 2010 by-election campaigns

on february 4, ontario premier dalton mcguinty announced by-election held on march 5, 2009 in haliburton—kawartha lakes—brock fill seat vacated pc mpp laurie scott, stepped aside progressive conservative leader john tory seek seat in legislature.

reform party leader brad harness announced reform planned run candidate, , slammed tory urbanite appeal big c conservatives. however, harness backed down, , party did not field candidate.

harness announced run reform candidate in march 4, 2010 by-election in ottawa west—nepean, harness backed down again , did not so.

2011–2015

the party ran 4 candidates in 2011 election: robert szajkowski in hamilton centre, gerald augustine in niagara west–glanbrook, david natale in vaughan, , party leader harness in lambton—kent—middlesex. former hamilton mountain pc mpp trevor pettit acted campaign manager , deputy leader of party. none of party s candidate elected.

the party did not run candidates in 2014 election, , deregistered elections ontario.

subsequent activity

some executives of reform party of ontario , grassroots members, approached join new expansion towards broader base in time 2018 provincial election. actively involved include rpo president joshua e. eriksen, rpo deputy leader bill cook, other rpo executives past.

at annual general meeting in burlington @ crossroads forum, family coalition party of ontario leadership via newly elected party leader james gault, deputy leader , director of communications eric ames, president lynne scime led move combine original traditional moral values of fcp democratic reform principles of rpo new rebranded party called new reform party of ontario.

however, new party deregistered elections ontario of january 2016, after running once in simcoe north byelection in 2015 gault , new reform, defeated ontario pc leader patrick brown won 21,103 votes (53.70%)., placing fifth out of 8 candidates, 197 votes , 0.50%.