By making a shameless grab for every last taxpayer dollar they can in the middle of a crisis, political parties have helped draw some long-overdue attention to the rigged system they’ve been exploi…
When news broke that four federal political parties had applied for taxpayer support from the emergency wage subsidy program, which was intended to support struggling businesses, it fell to the leader of the Bloc Québécois, of all people, to say the obvious.
Thankfully, all four Conservative leadership candidates — who are actually looking for support from ordinary Canadians right now — came out against the subsidy and at least two specifically pledged that if elected leader, they would ensure the subsidy was paid back. To answer that, it’s worth a quick look at just how privileged political parties are compared to any other organization when it comes to ongoing subsidies.
This tax credit has meant that since 2016, federal political parties have received $145 million in taxpayer subsidies, or an average of $29 million per year. Add to this the more than $100 million that the parties and their official candidates received in expense reimbursements for the 2015 federal election . The result of all these subsidies is that all taxpayers end up paying for political parties, whether they want to or not.
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