The Representative Party of Ontario was a reserved provincial political party

Political party

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 name in the Province of Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

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. The party's request to register the name and abbreviation was submitted in early September 2004, verified late October-early November and reserved on Friday, December 17, 2004. The name was judged to be not acceptable by Elections Ontario

Elections Ontario

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 on March 10, 2005.http://www.electionsontario.on.ca/en/cp_parties_names_applied_en.shtml

The Representative Party of Ontario hoped to become the grassroot Reform

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-oriented alternative to the main Liberal, Progressive Conservative and New Democratic

Ontario New Democratic Party

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 parties in the province.

The party's traditional populist

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 beliefs in representative and direct democracy follow those of the politics of pre-Confederation Reform Party

Reform Party (pre-Confederation)

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 leader William Lyon Mackenzie

William Lyon Mackenzie

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, former United Farmers of Ontario

United Farmers of Ontario

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 premier Ernest Charles Drury

Ernest Charles Drury

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 and former Ontario Cooperative Commonwealth Federation

Ontario New Democratic Party

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 member Agnes Campbell Macphail

Agnes Macphail

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. It planned to adopt a statement of principles, policies and platform built on a "people-first-politics" constitution. The constitution was to be ratified in a democratically-held assembly by on a one-member one-vote basis.

The party's interim leader, Bill Cook, ran in the Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey by-election of 2005 as the "Independent Representative" candidate. He placed sixth out of eight candidates.

See also

• Representative Party of Alberta
  Representative Party of Alberta
  The Representative Party of Alberta was a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada formed by Raymond Speaker in 1984. The party was right of center, conservative in ideology and considered a modern version of Social Credit without the monetary reforms....
  
  
• List of Ontario general elections
• List of Ontario Premiers
• List of Ontario political parties
• Leader of the Opposition (Ontario)
  Leader of the Opposition (Ontario)
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External links

Archived copy of Representative Party's website (Jan 20, 2007)