George Dance en
George Dance is a politician and political activist in Ontario, Canada. He has been a member of the Libertarian Party of Canada and the Ontario Libertarian Party since the mid-1970s, and has served as interim leader of both parties. Dance listed his occupation as stock clerk, layout artist, freelance typesetter and office manager on various occasions between 1979 and 1993. For more than ten years (1987–1998) he edited and published Libertarian Bulletin, the Ontario Libertarian Party's newsletter. Like many others in his party, Dance has called for increased privatization. He is an opponent of anarchism, and describes himself as a "proper-government libertarian" (i.e., supporting a government that recognizes and respects individual liberties). Dance is also an opponent of restrictions on public smoking. Dance ran for Leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada in 1990, coming in second to Stanislaw Tyminski. He succeeded to the leadership when Tyminski left Canada in 1991 to run for President of Poland. Dance held the position until May 1993, when Hilliard Cox was chosen to replace him. In 1992, Dance indicated that his party might seek an electoral alliance with the Freedom Party of [ - ]
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