Dan Arnold troubleshoots Paul Dewar’s proposal to increase the number of women seeking office.
Paul Dewar wants to restore the per vote subsidy, but link it to gender equality.
Colby Cosh on how we might as well go ahead and hold the funeral if democracy is so easily buyable
With the end of the per-vote subsidy now in plain sight—hailed via a raving action alert—Duff Conacher mounts another defence of the measure in a note to reporters.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has now tabled the second version of the 2011 budget—the prepared text of Mr. Flaherty’s speech to the House is here.
The Conservatives will, as promised, move to phase out the per vote subsidy. Marc Garneau, whose Liberal party will be most wounded, wonders if it’s time to raise the limit on individual donations.
It’s still unclear whether the cut will be phased in
Adam Chapnik makes a case for the per vote subsidy.
Stephen Harper has reannounced various measures from last week’s budget and restated his intent to eliminate the per-vote subsidy.
Taxpayers across Canada are paying, disproportionately, to fund a party dedicated to the country’s destruction