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The Libertarian Party of Canada has nominated Lauren Southern for the federal riding of Langley-Aldergrove.

Lauren Southern was born and raised in Surrey and is currently living Langley. Lauren became an advocate of Libertarian values when she began discovering the works of Libertarian philosophers at a young age. She adopted the belief that the government does not know how to spend an individuals money better than they do. Nor should the government have the right to instruct people on how to live their lives when their way of life is causing no harm to those around them.

She is currently studying political sciences at the University of the Fraser Valley and where she provides a strong voice for liberty on the campus. She previously hosted the radio show Liberty Now from the university broadcast station where she discussed current affairs from a libertarian viewpoint. Since then, she has moved on to more studies and volunteering, and is now looking for more opportunities to promote Libertarian ideals in any way she can.

Lauren plans on running a strong campaign in order to spread the libertarian message, as well as move power away from the government and back to the people. She feels strongly about issues such as corporate welfare, criminalization of victimless crimes and taxation. In promoting liberty, Lauren hopes to create a better, freer Canada for current and future Canadians.

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem, says Southern.

Libertarian leader Tim Moen

Tim Moen grew up on a farm in Northern Alberta where he learned the value of freedom, hard work, responsibility, respect for property and community. He has served his community as a firefighter, paramedic, business owner, writer, filmmaker and volunteer. In 2013 after working with Neil Young, who slammed his community and the oil sands industry, Tim gained national media attention by writing an article revealing Neils hypocrisy. In 2014 he ran a highly visible by-election that caught the attention of Fox Business, CNN, Reason Magazine, Gawker, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and numerous other media outlets.

Tim has extensive experience leading high performance teams and has a graduate degree in leadership where his thesis examined the ways in which high performance teams employ libertarian principles. Since Tim was elected leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada in May 2014, the Party has witnessed an explosive growth in membership, engagement and funding.

Tim has spent his career protecting life and property from mindless destructive forces. Now as leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada he is focusing his attention on the destructive force of government which has an unquenchable appetite for money and power at the expense of its citizens.

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By Russell Moore March 31

In all the furor over Indianas controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act, perhaps the answer to the culture war impasse wont be found in Indianapolis but in Pawnee. Pawnee, of course, is the fictional town inhabited by long-running NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, which orbited around the often clashing visions of Parks director Ron Swanson and his crusading deputy Leslie Knope. The two could agree on little, but I think they could agree on Indianas RFRA as it originally passed, and so should we.

Ron Swanson and Leslie Knope are relevant to this discussion not despite the fact that they are fictional Hoosiers but precisely because they are. They stand in for two powerful impulses in American cultural and political life: leave me alone libertarianism and common good progressivism. Both of these strains are part of the rich heritage of religious freedom, and neither strain should go wobbly on that heritage now.

Swanson, of course, was the grumpy, just-this-side-of-cynical libertarian who feels guilty for working for the government. What he wanted to see done, more than anything, within his tiny towns parks department is for it to do just this side of nothing. He kept his money in gold, buried somewhere in the yard. His hatred of government regulations and government expenditures, of almost any kind, were second only to his hatred for skim milk (which he famously called water, lying about being milk).

Swanson, like most libertarians, probably would support same-sex marriage, if he supported any sort of government-recognized marriage at all. But his libertarianism wouldnt want the government dictating either the prohibitionor the celebrationof such unions.

The libertarian vision is one that recognizes that pluralism in the public square is not an evil to be stamped out by government fiat. And that vision is especially true when it comes to the most personal arena of a persons life: his or her conscience. We may disagree on how much government is necessary, but libertarians have consistently warned us that a government that takes upon itself the burden of paving over consciences is a government that can do anything.

The libertarian vision is true in the area of religious liberty both on the Right (when some have wanted state-written school prayers or mosques zoned out of existence) or on the Left (where now many want to force celibate nuns to pay for birth control insurance or force evangelical adoption agencies out of existence).

The federal RFRA and its counterparts in the states were designed to protect individual consciences from a Leviathan government. The point of RFRA, from the beginning, was to assert that unpopular religious views (whether of peyote-smoking native Americans, hijab-wearing Muslims or something similar) ought to be protected by more than just the whim of the majority.

Leslie Knope, on the other hand, was the office progressive, fueled by idealism about what government can do, if only given the chance. With her office filled with pictures of her women heroes from Madeleine Albright to Hillary Clinton, Knope wanted to break glass ceilings, to fill in sand pits and build parks for the sake of the flourishing of her community.

Now, as a liberal Democrat, Knope, too, probably would support same-sex marriage. But its hard to imagine that Knope would feel comfortable with the hysteria weve seen over the Indiana RFRA. The primary pressure to abandon this act, along with the (flat-out misrepresented) line that it is a freedom to discriminate bill has come from big corporate interests threatening to boycott the state.

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Why Parks and Recreations Ron Swanson and Leslie Knope could agree on Indianas religious freedom law

Queensland civil libertarian Terry O'Gorman has asked the state's chief justice to clarify allegations he insulted colleagues and inappropriately interfered with judicial appointments.

In an open letter to Chief Justice Tim Carmody, the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties vice-president called for a fuller explanation of recent allegations levelled at Justice Carmody by a retiring judge.

Last week outgoing Supreme Court Justice Alan Wilson used his valedictory speech to declare the chief justice was not performing, and accused him of inappropriately interfering with the Court of Disputed Returns following the state election, among other claims.

Justice Carmody responded in a letter to barristers on Monday that said the allegations were a slur on his integrity and an inappropriate use of the forum of the court.

Mr O'Gorman's open letter, sent on Wednesday, demanded a better explanation of Justice Wilson's claims, including whether Justice Carmody had called other judges "snakes" and "scum".

The civil liberties lawyer, who has previously said the chief justice should consider resigning, also called for more detail of the circumstances surrounding Justice Carmody's intervention in the appointment of judges to the Court of Disputed Returns.

"The court is, on any view, now clearly deeply divided," Mr O'Gorman wrote.

"I was very disturbed by the remarks made by Wilson J at his valedictory late last week."

The letter comes amid revelations another senior judge was grateful for outgoing Justice Alan Wilson's comments.

Supreme Court Justice Roslyn Atkinson reportedly said in open court immediately after the retiring judge's valedictory ceremony that everything Justice Wilson said was true and she was "extremely grateful" to him for making the comments.

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Given that it's hardly been a controversy in nine other provinces, one might wonder why banning children from using tanning beds would be controversial here.

But the Saskatchewan Party seemed to struggle with imposing regulations prohibiting the use of indoor tanning beds for those under 18 years of age. In fact, just six days ago Health Minister Dustin Duncan told reporters his government wasn't about to follow Alberta's lead and pass such a law.

In fairness, Duncan did talk about "ongoing discussions" and maybe looking at Alberta's decision.

But protecting children's health should be an automatic no-brainer and tanning regulations should have been in place in Saskatchewan long before now. Or so the Sask. Party seemed to conclude as it announced Monday Saskatchewan youth would be prohibited from using tanning salons by this summer.

"Our government's goal is to protect the health of Saskatchewan residents," Duncan said in a news release.

"Our young people are particularly vulnerable to the effects of indoor tanning, and this is one way we can help them lower their risk of melanoma."

That said, maybe the Sask. Party government's news release still wasn't quite as assertive as it could have been.

It stressed the need to carefully monitor "developments on the issue" and make "every effort to be thoughtful about this issue, to gather as much information as possible, and to be aware of different perspectives before proceeding."

Regulations will be developed through consultations with interested stakeholders and government will "continue to support public education efforts aimed at raising awareness of the risks of indoor tanning, and encouraging people to make healthy lifestyle choices."

Really? Why would you need to throw a conciliatory bone to anyone? You just acknowledged: "Young people are particularly vulnerable to the effects of indoor tanning and this is one way we can help them lower their risk of melanoma." What is there still to consider?

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