Parties are now to be financed largely by the political tax credit вЂ“ the bizarre mechanism by which every $1 donated by a party supporter triggers an automatic subsidy of up to $3 financed by unconsenting taxpayers. This system of proportional financing was the only unequivocally democratic feature of the Canadian political system. Higher voter support resulted in higher payments. Low levels of voter support resulted in low subsidy payments to a party. The per-vote subsidy allowed Canadian citizens to direct $2 of their taxes per year to a political party by voting for its candidates. Re: Good Riddance To The Per-Vote Party Subsidy, editorial, Jan. Per-vote party subsidy was вЂ™the best of both worldsвЂ™ Rebecca Aldworth, director of Humane Society International, Canada, Montreal. How many more governments and courts have to arrive at the same conclusion before the sealing industry finally realizes it is time to end this slaughter for good?

The EU, the United States, Russia, Taiwan, Mexico, Belarus and Kazakhstan вЂ“ along with the European General Court, the European Court of Justice and the World Trade Organization вЂ“ have all supported restricting trade in seal products for humane and conservation reasons. Considering that the EU is one of biggest beneficiaries of access to Canadian fishing grounds, would it be expecting too much for the Canadian government to show itself capable of actually dealing effectively with the irrational campaign by banning the EU fishing fleets from pillaging our declining fishery resources? With regard to the EU anti-sealing campaign, the World Trade Organization rules permit countries to impose penalties on countries that do not follow the rules. From inability to implement a workable pipeline strategy within Canada and to the United States, Senate abuse of the public purse, minority rights in Quebec, and now the irrational EU anti-sealing campaign, the list grows increasingly larger. One of the reasons why many voters have lost faith in the Conservative Party of Canada is its fecklessness in dealing with issues that offend casual observers of the political scene. In visiting the hunt, I did not see that the seals were less humanely killed than any other animal destined for our consumption.

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