Prime Minister Stephen Harper should reconsider his vow to end the direct per-vote subsidy for political parties, says former prime minister Jean Chrétien.
Sort of arrogant, no? Having a former PM ask the current PM not to follow through on his election promises?
Thank you Jean, but cutting party subsidies was an election platform promise, in fact I would call it a major plank of that platform, and the Conservatives were elected on that platform. The Conservative Party of Canada is not the Liberal Party where promises to abolish the GST or the numerous times they promised a national child care system are never followed through on. This PM will follow through on his platform promise.
If a party's own members do not care enough to support that party with their own money, why should the taxpayer have to prop them up?