'Not left, not right, but forward': Dominic Cardy officially launches new centrist federal political party
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Independent New Brunswick MLA Dominic Cardy officially launched a new centrist federal political party, aiming to win the support of disillusioned Liberal and Conservative voters.
Independent New Brunswick MLA Dominic Cardy officially launched a new centrist federal political party, aiming to win the support of disillusioned Liberal and Conservative voters.
The Canadian Future Party, Cardy says, will be a fiscally responsible, socially liberal party that will offer a new political home to Canadians fed up with extremism on both the right and left.
"Canadians have been asked to play a political shell game," Cardy said at a press conference Wednesday in Ottawa.
On the left, Cardy says social programs Canadians need have an increase in spending yielding little result.
On the right, "we're supposed to find fiscal discipline," he adds. "But along with it, too often, there’s a mean-spirited approach that blames the most vulnerable for their plight. Selfishness masquerading as liberty that happily misdirects government resources to the wealthy and polices our bodies and our bedrooms."
He ensures that "the Canadian Future Party is for all Canadians and I promise we are going to be courageous, we are going to be competent and we are going to be evidence-based."
Elections Canada recognized the Canadian Future Party as an eligible political party on July 22, and it was officially registered on Aug. 8.
