Darren Roskam is Barrie's voice in the political wilderness, and it looks like he will stay right there.

Roskam, 46, is the Ontario Libertarian Party candidate for Barrie in the June 12 provincial election.

But it's an uphill battle for him, and his party.

The Libertarians haven't elected an MPP in any of the last four elections. In 2011, the percentage of valid ballots cast for the Libertarians, Elections Ontario says, was 0.5%.

So why vote Libertarian?

Because our platform is the only one that provides solutions to the problems that we have, said Roskam, a self-employed graphic designer. The other parties have provided us with a great burden of debt and spending.

"Government is too big, too expensive, so big and expensive that we have to borrow money at interest to keep the whole thing going," he added.

Roskam has been a candidate before, in Barrie municipal, provincial and federal elections. He's never come close to winning.

So why vote for him?

They should vote for me because no one else is going to cut all those things (Ontario's ministries of sport, culture, tourism, TVOntario, the Ontario Wine Council), only the Libertarian, Roskam said. The rest just want to play a shell game and blame each other, and say 'look at the mess I inherited'.

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Barrie's Libertarian candidate says Ontarians have been saddled with too much debt