Libertarian Party of Canada

The Libertarian Party of Canada (French: Parti libertarien du Canada) is a federal political party in Canada founded in 1973.

Libertarian Party of Canada Parti libertarien du Canada
Active federal party
Leader	Jacques Boudreau[1]
President	Coreen Corcoran
Founder	Marshall Bruce Evoy
Founded	7 July 1973; 52 years ago (1973-07-07)[2]
Headquarters	409–207 Bank St. Ottawa, Ontario[3]
Ideology	Libertarianism Classical liberalism
Political position	Right-wing[4][5]
International affiliation	Interlibertarians International Alliance of Libertarian Parties
Colors	Yellow
Senate	0 / 105
House of Commons	0 / 343
Website
www.libertarian.ca
Politics of Canada Political parties Elections

History

The party was founded in July 1973 by Marshall Bruce Evoy. The party's founding convention, attended by 64 delegates and modeled on the 1972 Founding Convention of the United States Libertarian Party and the Libertarian Alternative of Alberta's September 1973 rally in Edmonton, took place in Toronto in October 1973; Sieg Pedde was elected leader.^[6][7] Evoy ran unsuccessfully for election to Parliament in the 1974 federal election in a Toronto riding.^[8][9]

The party achieved registered status in the 1979 federal election by running more than fifty candidates.^[10] The party spent $45,818 on the 1984 Canadian federal election running 72 candidates and received 0.2% of the vote.^[11]

Libertarian Party president Stanisław Tymiński ran for President of Poland in the 1990 election (and again, having left his LPoC position, in 1995).^[12]

In September 2018, Moen, who had previously offered the leadership of the Libertarian Party to Maxime Bernier, stated that he was open to the idea of a merger with Bernier's People's Party of Canada.^[13] When asked by Global News, Bernier indicated he had no interest in a merger.^[14]

Ideology

The party subscribes to libertarian and classical liberal tenets; its stated mission is to reduce the size, scope, and cost of government.^[15] Having stated that the party "wouldn't criminalize much except murder and theft",^[16] policies include ending drug prohibition, ending government censorship, open borders,^[17] lowering taxes, protecting gun rights, ending laws criminalizing the voluntary transfer of money for sex acts between consenting adults,^[18] free trade and non-interventionism.^[19]

The statement of principles adopted by the founding convention in 1973 called for a new Canadian Constitution to supersede the British North America Act and for privatization of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Royal Mail Canada through their sale. No consensus could be reached at the time on age of majority, capital punishment and abortion.^[7]

Election results

Election	Leader	Candidates	Votes	Share of popular vote	Share in ridings contested
1979	Alex Eaglesham	60 / 282	16,042	0.1%	0.6%
1980	Vacant	58 / 282	14,656	0.1%	0.6%
1984	Victor Levis	72 / 282	23,514	0.2%	0.7%
1988	Dennis Corrigan	88 / 295	33,185	0.3%	0.8%
1993	Hilliard Cox	52 / 295	14,630	0.1%	0.5%
1997	did not contest
2000
2004	Jean-Serge Brisson	8 / 308	1,949	nil%	0.5%
2006		10 / 308	3,002	nil%	0.6%
2008	Dennis Young	26 / 308	7,300	0.1%	0.6%
2011		23 / 308	6,002	nil%	0.5%
2015	Tim Moen	72 / 338	37,407	0.2%	0.9%
2019		24 / 338	8,281	0.1%	0.6%
2021	Jacques Boudreau	13 / 338	4,765	nil%	0.7%
2025		16 / 338	5,561	nil%	0.6

Leaders

George Dance in 1988

Stanisław Tymiński in 1990

Jean-Serge Brisson in 2018

No.	Leader	Years in office
1	Sieg Pedde	1973–1974
2	Charles "Chuck" Lyall	1974–1976
3	Ron Bailey	1976–1978
4	Alex Eaglesham	1978–1979
5	Linda Cain	1980–1982
6	Neil Reynolds	May 1982 – 1983
7	Victor Levis	1983–1987
8	Dennis Corrigan	1987–1990
9	Stanisław Tymiński	1990–1991
10	George Dance	1991–1993
11	Hilliard Cox	May 1993 – 1995
(10)	George Dance	1995–1996
12	Vincent Pouliot	12 May 1996 – 5 April 1997
13	Robert Morse	1997–1999
14	Jean-Serge Brisson	1999 – 18 May 2008
15	Dennis Young	18 May 2008 – May 2011
16	Katrina Chowne	May 2011 – May 2014
17	Tim Moen	May 2014 – 2021
18	Jacques Boudreau	15 August 2021 – present
Source[20]

See also

• Canada portal
• History portal
• Liberalism portal
• Politics portal

• Libertarian Party of Canada candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election
• Libertarian Party of Canada candidates in the 1993 Canadian federal election
• Libertarian Party of Canada candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election
• Libertarian Party of Canada candidates in the 2008 Canadian federal election
• Libertarian Party of Canada candidates in the 2011 Canadian federal election
• Libertarian Party of Canada candidates in the 2015 Canadian federal election