Metro Article on Smaller Parties

...John Pacheco, running in Ottawa West-Nepean, is one of three Family Coalition Party candidates in Ottawa.

“Our approach is to look at everything through the lens of the family,” said Pacheco. That includes taxation, education and “respect for human life.”

“The big drawback from smaller parties like ours is that you’ll find voters, even people who are conservatively minded, say ‘It’s a wasted vote,’” he said. If people voted their principles, instead of strategically, it would impact the policies of the mainstream parties, he said.... (Source)