Mark Snow - Libertarian Candidate for MPP of Bay of Quinte

Mark Snow is running as the candidate for the Ontario Libertarian Party in the 2024 Bay of Quinte byelection.

Snow is the Leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party, which was founded in 1975 by Bruce Evoy and Vince Miller inspired by the 1972 formation of the United States Libertarian Party.

Snow is retired from the 30 years in the Canadian Armed Forces and lives on an acreage near Oxford Mills, which is near Kemptville, south of Ottawa. Snow lived in the Quinte region home for two periods of his life, in Brighton from 1966-72 and in Trenton from 1978-81.

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Education

Community involvement

Leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party – October 24, 2021 – Present
Ran as the Ontario Libertarian Candidate for Leeds–Grenville–Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes in the 2022 Ontario election, receiving 202 votes

Career & business interests

Canadian Armed Forces for 30 years

2022 provincial election

Reasons for running

I voted Conservative all my life and realized about 4 yrs ago, my vote did not count. For me, the simple reality was that the current parties no longer have your needs in mind. For the big parties, it seems to be a game of power and somewhere along the line, we the voters have gotten lost in that democratic process.

Each election period and in between, more and more of our tax dollars have been taken from us, with less and less services being provided. The ever-present growth in government and regulations have strangled the innovation and business sectors in Ontario. The constant attacks on taxpayers must stop and government needs to be controlled, by the people.
Mark Snow

Affordable housing

Government should not be in the business of creating social housing, and I mean that wholeheartedly and honestly. But not to say that we shouldn’t do it. We have to work within the system that we have. The first thing that we have to do is get out of the way. So eliminate the $25,000 fee for building permits. Eliminate all these different fees and services that would allow the creation.
Mark Snow to North Grenville Times

2024 Bay of Quinte By-election

Issues & views

In 2019, he supported Maxime Bernier in a post on Facebook.

Smaller government

We believe that government has grown too big with too many regulations that interfere with property rights, individual rights, medical choices, education choices, land-use choices
Mark Snow to Brockville Recorder & Times

Health care

Mark Snow and the Libertarian Party believe in what he calls a de-centralized approach:

When Doug Ford took office, there was a $64-billion budget (health care budget), today it’s $74-billion. It was bad, but better. Today it’s worse, but $10-billion more and 50-percent less outsomes.
Mark Snow to Quinte News

In his mind, the only way to fix it is:

That is to go back to the LHIN’s model (Local Health Integration Network), the 14 regions within the province, attach the funding to each
and every individual in the province.”

Education

Carbon taxes and rebates

Energy and climate change

Snow said the Libertarians would end all subsidization of green-energy projects and get rid of carbon taxes.

Climate change is real and is a naturally occurring phenomenon, but “you can’t tax your way out of climate change,” he said.
Mark Snow to Brockville Recorder & Times

If you think climate change and carbon taxation will save the planet you are wrong, it is just another inflationary program designed to increase the price of everything to keep the cycle going.
Mark Snow on Facebook