Parties to lose per-vote subsidy permanently April 1, Liberals now support elimination

But NDP MP Pat Martin says, 'Public financing of political parties is far more fair and equitable than the frantic frenzy of begging and groveling they’ve been reduced to today.'

PARLIAMENT HILL—A public subsidy for federal political parties that cost taxpayers a total of $266-million over the past decade and contributed to a dramatic Parliamentary crisis when the Conservatives first attempted to end it is drawing to a close at the end of March, terminated by the p...

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