Having helped establish the Freedom Party of Ontario in 1985 and run as a candidate in every provincial election since, St. Marys’ Robby Smink is once again using his election campaign to raise concerns he has with the government and the people of Ontario.
Though some have labeled him a conspiracy theorist, St. Marys resident and Perth-Wellington Freedom Party candidate Robby Smink is once again using an election campaign to voice his concerns with the government.
Smink, now 71 and employed at Argyle Materials, has run as a candidate in every provincial election since he helped establish the Freedom Party of Ontario in 1985. In the Perth-Wellington riding and in the local ridings that came before, Smink says he’s run for the MPP seat about seven or eight times.
“I think the Ford government should be held accountable for turning Ontario into a dictatorship,” Smink told the Beacon Herald in a recent interview. “With these COVID lockdowns, rules and restrictions, which are all basically against science, and there’s three-million Canadians who can’t pay their rent or mortgage. It’s ruined small business, it’s restricting our travel rights — there’s seven-million Canadians who can’t travel outside the country or on planes or anything.
“I know that it’s federal mandates, but it doesn’t mean that the Ford government, which is supposed to be Conservative, has to toe the line and agree 100 per cent with what the Liberals are doing. All the other countries on the planet have gotten away from this nonsense, but Trudeau and the Canadian dictatorship is sticking to their guns to the detriment of all Canadians.”
From governments enforcing the wearing of masks, which Smink says forces people to breathe in too much carbon dioxide, to levying the carbon tax on the basis of what Smink calls the carbon hoax — the notion the federal government is lying about the impact greenhouse gases have on global warming — the Freedom Party candidate says the vast majority of area residents and people across the province are not willing to open their eyes to what he believes to be the truth based on hundreds of hours of his own internet research.
“These things got to be exposed and the Ford government has to be held accountable,” Smink said. “The candidates and even the people asking questions at the all-candidates debates, they’re just treating this election like it’s business as usual. Like any other election, (it’s all about) what can the government do for this group or that group, or how can they fix this problem which they created in the first place?
“It’s all about, ‘What can the government do for me and how can I get something for free at someone else’s expense?’ Yet the reality is I don’t recognize my own country anymore. In two-and-a-half years, we’ve destroyed what millions of people have died and fought for.”
When confronted with the conspiracy theorist label, Smink says people hold too much trust in mainstream media, official sources and experts, and governments at all levels. He suggests people need to do their own research to learn the truth of what’s going on around us, whether that’s the government’s alleged use of chemtrails to reflect sunlight and combat global warming or the deployment of face masks as mind-control devices, which Smink says will continue long after the pandemic is over.
“I guess people in Ontario don’t seem to care for some reason and trust their governments. Governments are not the solution; they’re the problem,” Smink said.
For more information on the Freedom Party of Ontario and to see its full slate of candidates, visit freedomparty.on.ca.