EDITORIAL – Taxpayers shouldn’t have to subsidize political campaigns

Posted on September 20, 2017 in Editorials, Page One, Politics, Rothenburger // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger.

IT REALLY IS hard to know who to cheer for in Victoria these days.

The NPD government is ending the so-called “Wild West” days of campaign financing in British Columbia.

However, taxpayers will have to pay through the nose to make it happen.

On the face of it, the NDP deserves kudos for curtailing corporate, union and foreign financing of election campaigns, something the Liberals only came onside with when they were on the verge of defeat.

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