About the party
Governance dictated by the people, working for the people.
Registered with Elections Ontario in May 2022. Founded by Mansoor Qureshi (Party Leader) and Hasan Syed (Party President) with a group of researchers, clinicians, engineers, and educators.
- Registered with Elections Ontario · May 2022
- 2 active constituency associations
- Platform v2025.10
What we believe.
We, as the Centrist Party of Ontario, believe governance should be transparent and easy to understand. Governance should be dictated by the people and work for the people.
We founded the party in 2022 with the view that Ontario politics had lost its grounding in evidence. Platforms had grown shorter each year. Commitments had grown vaguer. The data that should back them up had grown harder to find.
We are the experiment in doing it differently.
— Founding statement, May 2022
Three rules we are building the party on.
We measure before we prescribe.
Every policy begins with a published measurement. First instrument (Civility Index) in development.
Scientists, clinicians, educators.
Named, credentialed, public. See the full council.
Five Identity Groups.
Adopted June 2025 per the Strategic Identity Framework.