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Paying for Politics

I’m surprised Tom Kent’s piece in yesterday’s Globe and Mail didn’t get more uptake. It’s really amazing how much the current disrepair of our democracy is a direct consequence of Chretien and Martin’s desire to screw one another over. Anyway, I quite liked this line about public funding of political parties:

“Few uses of public money are more indefensible.”

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