New Blue Candidate Profile: Peter Beimers

Tuesday, 18 February 2025 07:44

He wants to eliminate the carbon tax, reduce HST to 10 percent, end MAID, and create a law against abortion.

OXFORD COUNTY - A local truck driver is looking to provide another conservative option on the ballot when Oxford County voters head to the polls for the Ontario snap election.

Peter Beimers is running for the New Blue Party and he has received a lot of support since he announced his candidacy.

"The provincial Progressive Conservative Party is no longer reflecting conservative values and we need a conservative representing us in Queens Park. They believe, like I do, that New Blue is that conservative option here in Ontario."

Belinda Karahalios is one of the party's founders, and she served as the MPP for the Cambridge riding from 2018 to 2022. Beimers says Karahalios used to be a member of the PC Party, but that all changed during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

"She was the only member who stood for her constituents rather than walking with Doug Ford in the Reopening Ontario Act, which was further closing Ontario. She said we need to open businesses, homes, and schools. When she voted against Ford, she was told she was out, so she and her husband (Jim Karahalios) started the New Blue Party as a grassroots conservative movement to bring conservatism back to Ontario."

Beimers is located in Woodstock and he has been driving truck for about 17 years now, aside from a brief two month stint where he served as a pastor in Wellandport. He has been married for 30 years now, is a father of four, and welcomed his first grandchild a couple of months ago.

If he is elected as a New Blue Party MPP for Oxford County, he says getting rid of the carbon tax would be the first thing on his to-do list.

"I was talking to a farmer who happens to be a brother-in-law of mine and he showed me his bill for one month, and he was paying more in carbon taxes then he was on HST and it seemed ridiculous. Businesses are same the same predicament, and the same goes for regular folks going shopping and putting gas in their cars."

Beimers would also like to reduce the HST to 10 percent, end Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID), and create a law against abortion.

Ontarians will head to the polls on February 27th.