The Party for People with Special Needs (french: Parti pour les gens qui ont des besoins spéciaux) is a

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, founded in 2007 and having contested the 2007 provincial election. The party ran two candidates, leader Danish Ahmed in

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and John Rubino in

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, neither of whom won. PPSN was founded following a rule change regarding official party recognition; parties were required to only field two candidates to be registered, as opposed to the previous requirement of running candidates in half of all

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s. The party's mandate was to focus on the needs of people with disabilities. The party failed to win any seats in the 2022 Ontario general election.

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