Per-vote subsidy should be made more democratic, not cut

There are other democratizing changes also needed to Canada's political finance system.

Re: "Libs should hope PM remembers his conservative principles when he kills per-vote subsidies to parties," (The Hill Times, by Gerry Nicholls, May 16, p. 10). The $2 per-vote annual subsidy for parties is the most democratic part of the federal political finance system, and while it shou...

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