OTTAWA—Scrapping public subsidies of federal political parties will be a key plank of the Conservatives’ revised budget, which will be unveiled June 6 on Parliament Hill, the Conservatives confirmed Wednesday.
Stephen Harper’s new government, elected just last month, intends to move fast on its election vow to end the $2-a-vote annual subsidy, which pumps $27 million a year into party coffers, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters.
The Conservatives have long opposed the measure and now armed with a majority mandate, they have the political heft to finally axe the subsidy.
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Democracy Gone Astray
Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.
All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.
[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]
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