Electoral financing reform

From the CBC’s website, my pal (and pretty smart guy) David Herle on Harper’s proposal to scrap the current public subsidization of political parties.

“The government of the day should no more be able to set political financing rules that benefit its party than it should be able to arbitrarily write new riding boundaries. That’s called gerrymandering, and it is part of our political past but not our present and should not be part of our future.”

The full column is here.