Ontario's political parties are getting more than $12 million this year in taxpayer-funded subsidies, and they are wondering if Premier Doug Ford will soon turn off the tap. "When I am elected Premier I will stand up for all Ontario taxpayers and eliminate the per-vote subsidy given to political parties," Ford wrote in this Facebook post. "I'm deeply concerned because we don't want big money to come back into Ontario politics," said Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner. Green Party of Ontario Leader Mike Schreiner calls a per-vote public subsidy 'the most democratic way of funding political parties.' Treasury Board President Peter Bethlenfalvy, the Ford cabinet minister in charge of finding cost savings, says he is not eyeing the political party subsidy just yet.

Source: CBC News October 03, 2018 09:00 UTC