The
Libertarian Party of Canada fielded eleven candidates in the
2006 federal election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found here.
Ontario
Soumen Deb ( Don Valley West)
Deb was born in
Toronto in 1976, and attended Don Valley Collegiate and
Queen's University Queen's or Queens University may refer to:
*Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
*Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
**Queen's University of Belfast (UK Parliament constituency) (1918–1950)
**Queen's University of Belfast ...
. He was the Libertarian Party's candidate in Don Valley West in the 2006 federal election and is standing for the party again in the
September 22, 2008 federal by-election.
He is a logistics coordinator, and an advocate of personal, economic and commercial freedom. In the 2006 campaign, he wrote that he supports preserving the environment through "market forces and grassroots action".
He campaigned for
Mayor of Toronto in the
2006 municipal election, saying that he would "raise awareness for the state of individual freedom and liberty" and "expose government in its current format as bad for this society".
["Toronto Mayoral Race", ''Toronto Star'', 9 November 2006, G1.]
Marty Gobin (
Whitby—Oshawa
Whitby—Oshawa was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. Following the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution, the bulk of the district became part ...
)
Gobin received 274 votes (0.4%), finishing fifth against
Conservative candidate
Jim Flaherty
James Michael Flaherty (December 30, 1949 – April 10, 2014) was a Canadian politician who served as the federal minister of finance from 2006 to 2014 under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
First elected to the Legislative Assembly ...
.
Footnotes
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Candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election
2006
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