On The Elimination Of The Per-Vote Subsidy

When I speak of representation by population, the house will of course understand that universal suffrage is not in any way sanctioned, or admitted by these resolutions, as the basis on which the constitution of the popular branch should rest...
John A. Macdonald, Legislative Assembly, February 6, 1865 

The per-vote subsidy was the legacy of Prime Minister Jean Chretien. Of all the Prime Ministers of my lifetime Jean Chretien will always be my favorite. If memory serves, the per-vote subsidy was one of his last pieces that he got through just before his return to public life. It was widely hailed in Canada and around the world as a ground breaking and stellar example of what a country could be. Never in my wildest dreams, did I ever think I would see it struck down.

It was a great piece of Legacy Legislation, like the Canada Pension Plan, Medicare, and the Canadian Flag,
but at a very small fraction of the cost of the Pearson gifts. It acted as a safeguard to the people of Canada by ensuring that government stayed in the hands of the people, not the blue bloated whores of Mammon.
Can you name one piece of Conservative Legacy Legislation? Your right... The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and of course the Meech Lake Accord... Oh! Right! Scratch that last one...The Conservative Legacy is a lot like that of the American C.I.A. A legacy of ashes...

Where it's all going...and damn fast!

 There is a lot about the elimination (Can't you just hear Preston Manning... e-l-i-m-i-n-a-t-e...) of the per-vote subsidy that has not been mentioned. Are we going back to the good old days? Is it all going to revert to the American system? Where the government of the people is regularly auctioned off to the highest bidder? Are the un restrictions  going to apply to big labour? Or just to the bloated whores of Mammon? I have not heard anything, have you?

When that budget goes down on June 6, there will be questions raised in the House and in the media scrums just outside the House. And no doubt on the National media outlets. I just want to hear one question asked until it is answered.

How does the elimination of the per-vote subsidy make Canada better?

A little look at what is next for Canada...