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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
And if the Liberals were similarly interested, they would forgo their reliance on the public purse to fund their own ineptitude.
What we saw today was three parties united in their desire to spend someone else's money on themselves. This was as good a first step as any in cleaning up political fundraising, and not surprisingly, the usual suspects fought hard against it.
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If this was really part of cleaning up political fundraising, why wasn't it part of the Conservative election platform? It's pretty obvious that the conservatives were hoping to get a majority and profit from the existing system, but since their minority means that other parties profit from this more than them (relative to total revenue), they want to do away with it. At this early point in the government, they have a mandate to do just about anything that was part of their election campaign.
I actually like this piece of legislation. But I absolutely hate the way that it's been introduced early in a term as though they're trying to force it through when the opposition is weakest and without asking for a mandate from Canadians on it. Introduce it mid-term as an issue, and if it's brought down in the house, make it part of your campaign for the next election. And then stick with it even if you get a majority and stand to profit from the existing system more than anyone else. To me it really goes to the pattern of hypocrisy that the Harper Conservatives have been guilty of since they first came to power. I have absolutely no confidence that they'll do what they say or that they'll say everything that they do. Which doesn't make them any worse than any other political party, but I had hoped for better from them.