It’s time to fix the rules of the electoral game and widen the pool of players

Fundraising rules for political campaigns are complicated and vary across the country, but often systemically make it harder for women and other minority groups to campaign.

An Elections Canada regular polling station in Ottawa, on Sept. 20, 2021. Money should not bar potential political candidates from running for office, but it is a significant factor in Canadian politics at all levels of government, writes Amanda Bittner.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY AMANDA BITTNER

July 20, 2022

So, you want to run for politics, but you are worried about the financial costs of taking time off work to campaign. Do you have a “political campaign emergency fund” set up? Probably not. Most of us don’t have access to the kind of money necessary to mount a political campaign, never mind th...

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