Canada’s political parties are going to have to find new ways to finance themselves in 2015.
This year, the parties will have to get by without the per-vote subsidy — the payment each political party receives from the federal government to reflect their share of the popular vote.
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The payments, which have been phased out over the past few years, will end entirely.
They parties have known for three years this day was coming, and they’ve been beefing up their fundraising pitches to supporters.
But that doesn’t mean they like it.
