Robert Metz is a politician and political activist in Ontario, Canada. He co-founded the small Freedom Party of Ontario, and served as its first leader.

The Freedom Party was founded on January 1, 1984 by Metz and Marc Emery, who subsequently led the Marijuana Party of Canada. Both Metz and Emery had previously been involved in the Unparty. Both organizations were influenced by Ayn Rand's political and economic philosophies.

While the Freedom Party leadership claims that the party is not libertarian in the strict sense, it is strongly supportive of capitalism, individual liberties, and property rights. Most of its policies are indistinguishable from libertarianism in the practical sense.

Metz, a chartered accountant, was the first president of the Freedom Party, and served as its de facto leader in the provincial election of 1985. He was chosen as the party's first official leader in 1987, and led the party through the provincial elections of 1987 and 1990. He resigned as party leader in 1994 (to be succeeded by Jack Plant) but remained as party president, and still holds the latter office as of 2005. He is also president of the Freedom Party of Canada.

Metz has frequently compared North American social democracy with fascism and Soviet style communism, and has written in opposition to taxation, unions and universal health care coverage. He also supports legalizing all drugs. In the early 1990s, he defended London-area landlord Elijah Elieff before the Ontario Human Rights Commission, after Elieff was accused to describing Asian tenants as "little pigs". In the course of the hearings, Metz described the OHRC as a "Gestapo" organization, and accused it of racism.

After the 1995 provincial election, Metz described Mike Harris's government as insufficiently conservative (most political commentators considered Harris's government to be very right-wing). He did, however, endorse the Reform Party of Canada in the federal elections of 1993 and 1997. (It may be noted that there was no Freedom Party of Canada at this time.)

In 2000, Metz wrote an article criticizing what he described as the suppression of free speech in Ontario, following an incident in which suspected members of the far-right Northern Alliance organization were asked to explain their opinions to the city's police force. Although Metz presented the issue as one of free speech, the resulting controversy resulted in the Freedom Party being accused of tolerating far-right viewpoints.

Unlike other Freedom party activists from the London region, Metz remained active in the party after Paul McKeever was selected to replace Lloyd Walker as party leader in 2002. He has contributed to several radio broadcasts for the Freedom Party International in recent years.

Electoral Record:

• Canadian federal election, 1980, London—Middlesex , 156 votes (winner: Garnet Bloomfield , Liberal) (Metz ran as a candidate of the Libertarian Party of Canada.)
• Ontario general election, 1985, London South , 614 votes (winner: Joan Smith , Ontario Liberal Party)
• Ontario general election, 1987, London South , 430 votes (winner: Joan Smith , Ontario Liberal Party)
• Ontario general election, 1990, London South , 635 votes (winner: David Winninger, Ontario New Democratic Party)
• Ontario general election, 1999, London North Centre, 156 votes (winner: Dianne Cunningham, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party)