The leader of the Libertarian party is vying to be the next Member of Provincial Parliament for Sarnia-Lambton.
Jacques Boudreau, who was elected party leader in 2021, is the latest candidate to file his nomination papers.
Boudreau is a semi-retired actuary after a 38-year career in the life insurance industry, and is married with three children and four grandsons.
His biography said he's "a voracious reader and learner, having spent thousands of hours learning about economics, history, ethics, theology, science and mathematics."
Since 2015, he has run in five elections, three times at the federal level and twice provincially. He said he's running because "we need to push back against an ever-increasing government that taxes and regulates all of us too much while assaulting our individual freedoms on a daily basis."
According to the group's website, Libertarianism supports all civil liberties and opposes all attempts by government to reshape its citizens' lives.
It challenges the right of government to restrict trade in any way, or to force citizens to support through taxes projects they will not willingly support on the free market.
The Libertarians believe government power must be used only to protect the individual from the use of force or fraud by others.
Boudreau is running against incumbent Progressive Conservative Bob Bailey, Liberal candidate Rachel Willsie, NDP candidate Candace Young the New Blue Party's Keith Benn, and Independent Nathan Colquhoun.
Candidate nominations close at 2 p.m. on Thursday, February 13. Voters head to the polls on February 27.
