Go Vegan | |
Subheader: | Former provincial party |
Leader: | Paulo Figueiras |
Headquarters: | P.O. Box 67679, Toronto, ON M5T 3M1 [1] |
Ideology: | Animal rights Environmentalism Secularism |
Position: | Left-wing |
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Blank1 Title: | Fiscal policy |
Blank2 Title: | Social policy |
Seats1 Title: | Seats in the House of Commons |
Seats2 Title: | Seats in the Senate |
Seats3 Title: | Seats in Legislature |
Country: | Canada |
State: | Ontario |
Parties Dab1: | List of political parties in Ontario |
Elections Dab1: | List of Ontario general elections |
Go Vegan (formerly the Vegan Environmental Party) is a former[2] minor animal rights and environmentalist provincial political party in Ontario, Canada.
Go Vegan was founded as the Vegan Environmental Party in preparation for the 2011 Ontario general election.
The party de-registered before the 2022 election.[3]
The party stands for the protection of both animals and people, calling for:[4]
Policy positions unrelated to the environment taken by the party would arguably place it on the left wing in Ontario politics. The party calls for increased welfare and disability funding to reflect the actual cost of living in Ontario, eliminating tuition fees at Ontario universities, raising the minimum wage in Ontario to reflect cost of living in Ontario, subsidizing affordable housing, increasing funding for public transportation, and eliminating public funding for religious schools.[4] Like many minor political parties, Go Vegan calls for a change in the electoral system from a first-past-the-post to a system involving Proportional representation.[4]
In the 2011 Ontario general election, the Vegan Environmental Party nominated three candidates for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:
+ 2011 Ontario general election results | |||||
Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Votes | % | Rank |
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Don Valley West | Rosemary Waigh | 108 | 0.26% | 6/7 | |
Toronto Centre | Harvey Rotenberg | 62 | 0.14% | 7/10 | |
Mississauga South | Paulo Figueiras | Party Leader | 165 | 0.41% | 6/6 |
In the 2014 election:
+ 2014 Ontario general election results | |||||
Riding | Candidate's name | Notes | Votes | % | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Don Valley West | Rosemary Waigh | 116 | 0.25% | 8/9 | |
Toronto Centre | Harvey Rotenberg | 187 | 0.37% | 8/11 | |
Trinity—Spadina | Paulo Figueiras | Party Leader | 308 | 0.53% | 6/7 |
Toronto—Danforth | Simon Luisi | 149 | 0.35% | 8/10 | |
Etobicoke Centre | Felicia Trigiani | 142 | 0.30% | 8/8 | |
In the 2018 election, the party ran two candidates:
+ 2018 Ontario general election results | |||||
Riding | Candidate's name | Notes | Votes | % | Rank |
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Mississauga—Lakeshore | Felicia Trigiani | 150 | 0.28% | 7/7 | |
University—Rosedale | Paulo Figueiras | Party Leader | 106 | 0.21% | 8/9 |