Halton-Hills This Week, Saturday, October 28,1993-~ Page21-° Answers that make sense... CLEANING UP POLITICS: Where there’s a will, there's a way! Too many layers of government with too much power has led to a corrupt system of "people control". Government has become a problem, not a:solution. It's time to change the game; not just the players, or some of the rules. Here are some ideas that will help: * Stop the use of taxpayer's money for peltcal can campaigns and parties. Pe ere beites C pied ota © Stop allowing tax breaks for donors to political * Scrap the Sonatel An elected Senate that ened the House of Commons is an expense we don't need and cannot afford. . - cba (and their campaign advertising) subject to the laws as else. ° esp "free" mailing privileges for MPs who use it to promote themselves and their * Control government through limited terms of office and fixed "election dates. Re-call, an expensive system that was tried and failed, won't be needed. Privatize MPs' and civil servant's pensions. Taxpayers cannot afford these gold-plated plans any longer. Criminals Have To Pay Up! While the ‘rate of violent crime is increasing, the system protects the rights of the criminals who use it to their advantage. It's time criminals took full responsibility for their actions. Let's tip the scales ii justice with these ideas: Jury Sentencing will stop apologists pushing the blame on everyone except the criminal. The jury who convicted the person would determine the sentence, based on limits prescribed by law. © The “law of first sentence" would apply to any crime involving a ‘weapon. No parole, no plea-bargaining to isa aks and the sentence must be served independently of any other. pay back the vitims directly pay their own legal bil piles a , but not for repeat offenders, and no parole for violent criminals. ¢ Scrap the Young Offenders Act. Let the courts decide if the individual should be tried in ana t wenio seg: Asecond offense would mean trial in an adult cou JOBS & THE ECONOMY: Let's Get Everyone Back h arbitration or VOTE FOR HILL COX Libellallal HALTON-PEEL so business is free to create long-term, productive jobs. Make- yok ogee ere are not the answer! Here are some ideas «Let's beat the hes and Mexico at their own game by establishing free trade zones in Canada. Let's export products, not jobs! * Make lower cost funding readily available to small business for expansion by introducing more competition in banking. Reduce taxes so we have more money to spend on Canadian made products. . Ps wasting taxpayers’ money bankrolling loser companies at Seog of efficient enterprises. Spee Une soheitatc tats iipieeeanes prac shen they need it - at lower cost to everyone. LOWER TAXES It Can Be Done! Canada is one of the most overtaxed countries in the world! Taxes are stifling our economy, and costing us jobs, They are reducing our standard of living and putting severe stress on families. We should not have to work over half our life to pay taxes. Taxes must be cut! Here are practical ways to do it: by reducing the size of government. Libertvian * © Cut the handouts to special THE DEFICIT: : It's Time To Cut Up The Credit Card! Thirty Hii ‘of Liberal-and’Conservative governments have to the brink of bankruptcy and Three or ¥ ve year reduction programmes based on a political agenda will hurt many Ganadians. Politicians have treated your F rion ad credit rag Bit K wore their own. We must take direct Eonitrol ‘over the. spending and deficit reduction. We can start ¢ Put spending control directly in the fads ol interest groups of all kinds. * Stop subsidizing business, industry, agriculture, etc. . shes off i amd . Apaiy a aeaialeation programme to government, followed by a reduction programme supplemented by a removal programme. We don't need all the government we've got, and cannot afford it any longer. “ leader Hilliard Cox...made some sense when he attacked the old-line parties for evet-more government, social rams, taxes and tinkering” (with the economy) Nation's Business/ The Financial Post, $3, Oct. 9/93 “.-pronouncements of the smaller party leaders may have had more of a ring of truth than the statements otfered from the major party leaders. Libertarian Party head Hilliard Cox, for instance, said that those parties promising to eliminate the federal deficit ina few years are ‘dreaming in Technicolour’.” The Globe & Mail AT, Oct. 6/93 VOTE FOR HILL COX e Less Government e Lower Taxes e More Jobs For further information: (519) 853-1779 (519) 927-5093 PARTY OF CANADA Authorized by S.R. Cox, Chief Agent