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The Northern Ontario Heritage Party is a provincial political party in Ontario, Canada, that was formed in 1977 to campaign for provincial status for Northern Ontario.〔"Frozen Out in Northern Ontari-ari-ario". ''Financial Post'', April 1, 1995.〕 No member was ever elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.〔 The party disbanded in 1985, and remained inactive until being revived and re-registered by Elections Ontario in 2010. The party's founder, Ed Deibel of North Bay,〔"Heritage Party wants better deal for North; officially recognized". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 20, 1977.〕 travelled Northern Ontario in the late 1960s and early 1970s to promote the idea of creating a separate province, and to sign up supporters for the party. The party later dropped the idea of a separate province from its platform, and continued to promote Northern Ontario's interests within Ontario. ==Origins of the party== The NOHP had its roots in the April 1973 provincial budget, in which the Government of Ontario proposed to extend the seven per cent provincial sales tax to heating and electricity.〔"The eleventh province?". ''The Globe and Mail'', January 29, 1977.〕 Deibel notified the local media that he would go to jail before paying the tax. This led to a meeting of about 500 people, and the formation of a tax repeal committee chaired by Deibel. The committee collected 24,000 signatures from all over Northern Ontario on a petition, and the government ultimately withdrew the proposal.〔 On May 16, 1973, Deibel formed a committee to discuss this idea, and began research about Northern Ontario’s problems. Deibel travelled Northern Ontario recruiting 600 members for the new province committee, and obtaining 6,000 signatures on a petition requesting that a vote be given to Northern Ontario on the question of forming a new province.〔 In October 1974, Deibel pitched a tent at Queen's Park, site of Ontario’s legislative assembly, for three days, and gave interviews to the media.〔"Northern heritage party tries to forget past". ''The Globe and Mail'', February 5, 1981.〕 This led to a half-hour private meeting with Premier William Davis, who refused to allow a plebiscite.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Northern Ontario Heritage Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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