Leader of the Ontario Party, Derek Sloan, announced Friday that he will seek election as the Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the riding of Hastings-Lennox and Addington in the 2022 Ontario general election in June.
“I am thrilled to announce my candidacy for the riding of Hastings-Lennox and Addington, as part of the Ontario Party’s campaign to give authentically conservative voters a real option to the counterfeit conservative culture of Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives,” Sloan said in a release.
Sloan, who represented the federal riding of Hastings-Lennox and Addington as a Member of Parliament from 2019 to 2021, became Leader of the Ontario Party in December of last year.
“Doug Ford betrayed the trust of the conservative base who swept him into power believing he would bring sanity to the governance of Ontario,” Sloan stated. “Instead he chose to turn his party into the provincial wing of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. The Ontario Party is here to take Ontario back, to defend freedom, family, and faith from Doug Ford.”
Sloan says The Ontario Party is focused on accountability for the authoritarian, unconstitutional lockdowns and mandates imposed by the Ford government, a parents first approach to education, and the protection of inalienable civil liberties for every citizen. The Ontario Party will be announcing more of its candidates in the near future.