Reform Party of Ontario | |
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Former provincial party | |
Leader | Bradley J. Harness |
President | Joshua E. Eriksen |
Founder | Bill Cook |
Founded | 1989 |
Dissolved | 2014 |
Headquarters | 415 Scott St. E. Strathroy, Ontario N7G 3Y8 |
Ideology | Populism Right-wing populism Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Social conservatism Libertarian conservatism Libertarianism Grassroots Democracy Localism |
Political position | Right-wing |
Colours | Purple, Blue, Green |
Website | |
Official website | |
The Reform Party of Ontario (RPO) (PRO; French: Parti Réformiste de l'Ontario) was a minor political party in Ontario, Canada. Until the 1999 provincial election, the party ran one candidate each election in order to keep the party's name in the possession of supporters of the Reform Party of Canada.
Although a small group of candidates laid claim to the name, they had to run under the 'Independent Reform' label. After the federal Reform Party became defunct, several independent Reformers revived the RPO name, and the party ran two candidates in the 2007 provincial election and four in the 2011 provincial election.
The Reform Party of Ontario is not to be confused with the pre-Confederation Reform Party, which later became the Ontario Liberal Party, with the leftist progressive United Reform party of the 1940s, nor the defunct populist social conservative New Reform Party of Ontario (known as the Family Coalition Party of Ontario until it was renamed in 2015).