About us

Revitalizing Our Democracy is a policy group of Ontario Liberal Party members focused on the quality of our democracy. Our concern is that foundational issues which affect everything else tend to be neglected in campaign platforms and require more attention. Our group was created after the 2018 election, which saw the Ontario Liberal Party reduced to a rump of its former self with only seven seats in Queen’s Park despite receiving over a fourth of voter support. 

Our main focus has been on electoral reform, political financing, and the need for youth engagement.  Our December 2020 flagship policy brief, Revitalizing Our Democracy, covered those three topics and remains available in pdf format. 

Six years later, the structural foundations of our democracy are more important than ever, as epitomized in Andrew Coyne's recent book The Crisis of Canadian Democracy. As that book illustrates, there are many dimensions to this. Hence our own approach of covering more than one of these dimensions. That said, we have come to focus more and more on electoral reform as a lynch-pin reform leading to lasting improvements in most other areas.

In 2024, we developed a set of four resolutions in different areas. In recent months, we have honed in on what our party might be able to do on electoral reform before, during, and after the next Ontario election in collaboration with other parties. We have put that in the form of a resolution titled A Leadership Role On Electoral Reform.