Go Vegan (political party)

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Go Vegan
Former provincial party
Leader Paulo Figueiras
Founded2011 (2011)
HeadquartersP.O. Box 67679, Toronto, ON M5T 3M1 [1]
Ideology Animal rights
Environmentalism
Secularism
Political position Left-wing [ citation needed ]
Seats in Legislature
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Go Vegan (formerly the Vegan Environmental Party) is a former [2] minor animal rights and environmentalist provincial political party in Ontario, Canada.

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History

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]

Ideology

The party stands for the protection of both animals and people, calling for: [4]

  1. An end to animal agriculture in Ontario [5]
  2. No new nuclear power plants in Ontario, and a decommissioning of those still in operation
  3. Focusing more on renewable energy sources
  4. Overhauling the Ministry of Natural Resources so that it represents the needs of all Ontarians (humans and nonhuman animals alike) [4] rather than the needs of hunters.

Policy positions unrelated to the environment taken by the party would arguably[ according to whom? ] 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]

Electoral results

In the 2011 Ontario general election, the Vegan Environmental Party nominated three candidates for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario:

2011 Ontario general election results
RidingCandidate's NameNotesVotes %Rank
Don Valley West Rosemary Waigh1080.26%6/7
Toronto Centre Harvey Rotenberg620.14%7/10
Mississauga South Paulo FigueirasParty Leader1650.41%6/6

In the 2014 election

2014 Ontario general election results
RidingCandidate's nameNotesVotes %Rank
Don Valley West Rosemary Waigh1160.25%8/9
Toronto Centre Harvey Rotenberg1870.37%8/11
Trinity—Spadina Paulo FigueirasParty Leader3080.53%6/7
Toronto—Danforth Simon Luisi1490.35%8/10
Etobicoke Centre Felicia Trigiani1420.30%8/8

In the 2018 election, the party ran two candidates:

2018 Ontario general election results
RidingCandidate's nameNotesVotes %Rank
Mississauga—Lakeshore Felicia Trigiani1500.28%7/7
University—Rosedale Paulo FigueirasParty Leader1060.21%8/9

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