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Randall Denley: It won't be easy to wean Ontario parties off generous tax treatment

It's unlikely provincial politicians and parties will easily abandon one of highest donation limits in Canada, the most generous tax treatment for donors, and the highest per-vote subsidy

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his PC party have taken some heat lately for squandering taxpayer-supported political donations, and rightly so. It’s difficult to justify spending $3,000 to snoop on Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie in Jamaica. Then there was the revelation that some cabinet ministers’ riding associations spent thousands of dollars on lavish dinners, and even an axe-throwing event.

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The real scandal, though, is the way Ontario political parties enrich themselves at taxpayers’ expense at levels that are out of sync with what’s happening in the rest of the country.

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