The sanctity and popularity of the NDP campaign finance reform promises depended for years on maintaining that if big money were banished from politics, it wouldn’t just be replaced by taxpayer money.
That kept the crusade simple. They could stand for driving the big money from unions and corporations out of politics, without having to defend the less-appealing idea of making up the difference by funneling tax money to parties. So they did just that, insisting for years that banning big donations did not mean taxpayers would be leaned on to plug the parties’ revenue gaps. When opponents such as […]
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