Ontario Party - Charter ^PDF

We the Citizens of the Province of Ontario…

1. Acknowledging the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law;
2. Affirming the Unity of the Dominion of Canada under the Crown;
3. Guided by a solemn desire to ensure the common good of the people of Ontario, present and future, while respecting the inherited wisdom and sacrifice of previous generations embodied in our culture and traditions;
4. Do hereby create the Ontario Party, to promote and provide compassionate and responsible government of the Province of Ontario in accordance with the following principles:

1. We believe that all human beings have an inalienable right to life, liberty, and private property. We believe that an individual may only have these rights restricted or deprived if he or she threatens to deprive another individual of these same rights. We believe that the right to life is the most important human right, from which all other rights are derived. We therefore affirm the right of the individual to ensure his or her own safety and self-preservation, and that of their loved ones, from any entity that would threaten physical harm;
2. We believe in the presumption of innocence and the right to justice and a fair trial without undue delay regardless of economic circumstances, social standing, ethnic, cultural, or ideological affiliation, or biological trait;
3. We believe in the ethical, responsible, and accountable execution of the mandate of government which, in a free and just society, is to guarantee and safeguard the inalienable rights listed above;
4. We believe in limited government and the indispensable role that autonomous institutions such as places of worship, family, and any other voluntary associations play in maintaining those limits by balancing and diffusing the power and size of the state;
5. We recognize the family as the basic building block of a healthy and functional society and the best place for healthy and responsible citizens to be formed. We believe in honouring parents as the primary educators of their children, and respecting the values they choose to live and raise their children by;
6. We believe in freedom of conscience, freedom of worship and religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly;
7. We reject the divisive politics of envy, resentment, group identity, and ethnic exceptionalism. As a result, we believe that government should instead encourage independence and voluntary collaboration, celebrate hard work, creativity, and entrepreneurship, and inspire personal success, which are the only vehicles for wealth to be created, technological innovation to occur, and for communities to thrive and individuals to be lifted from poverty;
8. We believe in the good stewardship of our natural environment and its resources, their responsible exploration, development, renewal, and conservation, as vital to the health, economic well-being, and quality of life of all stakeholders of our society;
9. We believe in small, decentralized government that respects regional interests and empowers local government to develop and execute policies that reflect the needs and concerns of the citizens of those regions, insofar as these do not cause harm to other regions of the province;
10. We acknowledge that the people may choose for the government to provide certain essential services that the private sector is unable, or unfit to provide. We reject, however, the practice of government enforced or enabled monopolies, and hold that any monopoly stifles competition and innovation, and that any existing monopoly should only be tolerated where it has naturally arisen, and its existence is unavoidable and demonstrably necessary for the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of that service;
11. We believe balanced budgets to be the most responsible fiscal policy. We affirm that a surplus budget is over-taxation, and that interest payments paid on deficit budgets reduce the amount of funding public services can receive per dollar of tax revenue collected. We acknowledge that a responsible government may be compelled under extenuating circumstances to adopt a budget that is not balanced, but we firmly reject the practice of running continuing budget deficits, and declare it to be the direct result of gross mismanagement of public funds. We will trust citizens to best decide how to dispose of their hard-earned income, and its allocation in the betterment of society, and will therefore seek to keep the tax burden upon the taxpayer at a reasonable minimum.