I like how you refuted me with another part of my own link. I'm embarrassed to have missed it. It seems to be a fair bit worse than you've stated, actually. On

I like how you refuted me with another part of my own link. I'm embarrassed to have missed it. It seems to be a fair bit worse than you've stated, actually. One of the citations in that section leads to a Globe and Mail article[1] which states that the subsidy will be phased out over the next few years: > The government said it will introduce legislation to gradually reduce the allowance of $2 a year per vote by increments of 51 cents starting on April 1 of next year until it is eliminated by 2015-16. I'm assuming that means that the subsidy won't appear at all in the 2015-2016 budget, which means that it will actually be gone by the time the next election rolls around in October 2015. Hopefully the NDP will be able to get enough seats to bring it back after the election, preferably alone but possibly with the Liberals. Incidentally, I was surprised to find that the subsidy has only existed since the beginning of 2004. I suppose that has a lot to do with my age, since I wasn't quite 19 then, and anything that happens before the first time you vote tends to be regarded as "the way it's always been." Thanks for the clarification. [1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/budget/news/parties-face-first-cut-to-per-vote-taxpayer-subsidy/article2046672/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/budget/news/pa...