Of subsidies and donations: notes on financing of federal political parties

Liberals have been surviving on quarterly subsidy payments, which amounted $39.6-million from 2004 to mid-2008, compared to $28.4 million in donations.

Jean Chrétien was a man who relished using the vast array of powers that Canadians entrust to their Prime Minister. One of his personal initiatives in the last year of his "reign" was the modification of political finances legislation on which he consulted virtually no one—least of a...

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