Vancouver resident Jeff Monds is the Libertarian Party of Canada candidate in Delta-Richmond East.

He previously ran for the Libertarians in the 2005 provincial election in Vancouver-Point Grey and in the 2008 federal election in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission.

The Libertarian Party proposes to reduce both taxes and the size of government. It says it would also remove restrictions on personal and economic freedoms and seek to remove government interference from as many areas of people's lives as possible.

When it comes to welfare and health care, for example, the party's position is the "moral issue here is that Libertarians believe that it is not right to take forcefully from one person in order to provide for another's needs... Taxation is robbing people of their wealth and the ability to invest that wealth in new business, which would benefit the poor."

A hybrid of left and right politics, Libertarians say, "Government interference in current social concerns such as pollution, consumer protection, health care delivery and poverty exceeds the level required for the protection of individual rights."

The party's position on the economy is "a reduction of both taxes and government spending; an end to deficit spending; the removal of all government impediments to free trade; and the repeal of all controls on wages, prices, rents, profits, production and interest rates."

Some of the other policies include eliminating the Canada Health Act and Bank of Canada.

Monds didn't attend the all-candidates meetings in South Delta and did not return Optimist attempts to contact him.