Historically, I have…

Historically, I have supported the Conservative party in this province. I am a serial entrepreneur who has built several successful businesses headquartered in Ontario. While in complete alignment with a fiscally responsible government and the absolute need for a healthy secondary (industrial) economic base that provides well-paid middle class jobs (blue & white collar), there are certain areas which I consider must, at all costs, be preserved. Two of which are: 1) the preservation of our remaining agricultural lands (a healthy economy must be able to be feed itself without imports); and, 2) the protection of ALL first and mature second growth natural ecological systems (which, aside from multiple other benefits, international experience has shown to be a of fundamental importance to pharmacological (and several other fields) developments. Simply put: an economy which cannot feed itself is a slave to others; and if the economy has nothing new (from a development perspective) to offer, it is nothing more than a 'fast-food' outlet dependent on those (other economies/countries) who have the money to spend. The federal Conservatives lost my vote by eviscerating much of our secondary economy & short-changing the environmental mandate in order to feed the primary economy... short term thinking is the bane of corporations, governments and the average citizen!