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Published on Wednesday, December 10, 2003 by the Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Political Conflict in the Air
Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell on the Bush Administration's Environmental Record
by Todd Benoit
Since retiring from the Senate in 1995, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine has served as chairman of the International Commission on Disarmament in Northern Ireland, and as chairman of the peace negotiations there. He subsequently led an international fact-finding committee on the crisis between the Israel and the Palestinian Authority and currently is a partner with the national law firm of Piper Rudnick LLP.
BDN editor Todd Benoit recently spoke with Sen. Mitchell about the senator's landmark legislation, the Clean Air Act of 1990, and the outlook for environmental legislation today.
TB: Most of the Clean Air Act will be implemented in the next couple of years. Has it achieved what you wanted?
GM: There has been substantial progress. Although much more remains to be done in part because the country continues to grow, the number of people, the quantity of emissions continue to rise and therefore more must be done to combat the resulting pollution.
I think it's clear that the cap-and-trade program for sulfur dioxide has worked very effectively. The first President Bush deserves credit for proposing that, and I'm pleased that I was able to persuade many Democrats and others who were skeptical of the provision that it was a reasonable compromise and a reasonable risk to take. So I think it has been successful and I think that there have been substantial reductions in the emissions since then.
The Mobile Source program has been successful in achieving vastly cleaner cars. It takes a long time for the fleet to turn over, but I think that we can look at that as significant progress, and, I'm jumping ahead in my narrative now, but it's one area where I think the actions by the current administration - the failure to push for stringent standards and other weakening actions - is of particular concern.
The Stratospheric Ozone Protection, that's from the Montreal Protocol, has been effective in stimulating the developments of substitutes that are less ozone depleting. Permitting has been reasonably successful, although not many states are now collecting the authorized fees from stationary sources.
The Environmental Protection Agency has done a generally poor job in implementing the Air Toxics Provisions of the 1990 amendments. Overall, the first Bush administration in the period of time it had after the amendments became law and the Clinton administration were active in implementing not only the letter but the spirit of what was the most comprehensive environmental statute to date at that time.
Regrettably, the current Bush administration is attempting to take the country back to the days before the adoption of environmental laws. In almost every case they've sought to slow down regulatory requirements in the name of flexibility. They've reduced enforcement budgets. And of course the New Source Review revisions will have a very regressive effect.
TB: Well, you anticipated several of my questions. But I wondered whether you thought the current Congress was capable of passing environmental regulations or improvements of a scale that occurred in 1990.
GM: I think it would be very unlikely today for two reasons. One, of course, the party that controls Congress is more hostile to protecting the environment than we were at that time and many of the policies are contrary to environmental laws. Secondly, the processes being used are different.
You saw the recent energy bill and the so-called Medicare reform bill were written almost entirely by the majority with no participation by the minority, not even a chance to see the bills until just before they had to vote on them. By contrast, when we did this Clean Air Act amendment I spent months in my conference room meeting directly with the representatives of the president and inviting every single senator to participate.
Two-thirds of the senators actively participated in the negotiations. There was no distinction by party. Any senator could come who wanted at any time. And many came and spent dozens - hundreds - of hours in there, Republican and Democrat alike.
The result was that when we finally reached agreement we had a bipartisan majority that was able to withstand amendments from both sides. If you go back and look at the record of the floor action of the Clean Air Act of 1990, I made a deal with President Bush that we would both oppose any amendment. I was put into the very uncomfortable position of opposing strengthening amendments sponsored by environmental groups and presented by staunch environmental senators - John Kerry, Al Gore, Tom Harkin - friends of mine - and I opposed every one of them because I kept my word as did the administration. With only one exception: The only amendment that passed was the ethanol amendment.
And we ended up with a good bill, a strong bill. It was not a perfect bill, but we ended up with it because it was a bipartisan effort. We could not have succeeded with one party alone. The current leadership operates in a completely different manner and that is to shut out the minority and write a bill on their own, and an issue of this complexity - the Clean Air issues - they're very difficult. They're complex. They're technical. ... I don't think you can do it in the way they've done these other bills.
TB: You mentioned bipartisan several times. It's a word that has come up in speaking with others around Washington who recalled the negotiations in 1990, even those who were considered very conservative at the time.
GM: Everybody was free to come in. I had a conference room in the back. I was the principle negotiator on the other side representing the Senate Environment Committee and the Democratic majority. But Sen. Baucus was extremely active and very, very helpful. And Sen. Chafee, who as you know was a Republican senator from Rhode Island. So it was a really good bipartisan effort. Sen. Durenberger, also a Republican senator, from Minnesota, was extremely helpful on that bill. So it was a bipartisan effort. It took a long time.
And you know it's an interesting thing, I think it was the only time I've ever gotten a full-page headline in a Maine newspaper. It was in the Portland Press Herald, when a group of environmental organizations held a press conference attacking me for making this compromise.
I've gotten over getting angry at things, but I was really angry at that. I remember it like it was yesterday. They were insistent that we not compromise at all. They were dead-set against this cap-and-trading provision that the president had proposed. Basically their view was that if they're proposing it, it's got to be bad and don't buy it. It was a risky thing because it hadn't been tried before. And yet in the end after we got a strong bill, the next year all those organizations gave me awards and named me man of the year and invited me to come speak at their organizations. I mean it was just an incredible thing.
TB: What was left out of the 1990 bill that should go in it, or looking back at the last dozen years, what has come up that needs to be addressed on that scale?
GM: I honestly don't know the answer to that. One of the problems with that bill, it could be argued, is that there's too much of it. There's all this difficulty with MTBE and other things. The truth is when you're creating a coalition like that you have to give serious consideration to the concerns to the senators and House members who are active on the issue. And so we took in a lot of things that people were interested in. I think it's justified as opposed to the so-called Christmas Tree Effect when someone adds an unrelated spending measure to a bill. These were relevant to the bill but it was really comprehensive in scope and it's very complicated. It's hard for members of Congress to digest all of this. It's hard for the experts to understand it and digest it.
And when you're a member of Congress, you've got a hundred issues and you're casting several hundred votes a year. You've got hundreds of individuals and groups clamoring to see you. It's very difficult to remain current, knowledgeable and impressible. So I think that one could argue that we could have slimmed it down some.
One of the things that I thought at the time when we faced a whole school of amendments that we had so much in it that there were so many targets, and that we might have had an easier time had we been less comprehensive.
TB: Science on climate change was just coming out at that time. Acid rain was the big issue then.
GM: Yes, it was the big issue. But you know, the science that has become known since then has tended to confirm everything from that time. What's happened is that the argument of those who said and keep saying we don't know enough has become less relevant, less convincing. And it's clear now that their game is simply one of delay and it doesn't make any difference how much more evidence comes up. They're always going to say we don't know enough. The reality is that we do know more than enough to act.
TB: You mentioned the current administration's environmental policies. Do you worry that the 1990 act will be taken apart bit by bit?
GM: Yes, I do, yes.
TB: Do you see signs for that now?
GM: Yes, I do. I think if you take all the actions that the administration, to which I've referred, and I think the prospect the polls suggest the president is now ahead in the polls and likely to be re-elected, and if he is I think you will see a serious effort to further undermine not just the Clean Air Act but all of the landmark environmental laws of our country. People tend to forget how close these things are.
In the 1980s President Reagan sought to terminate the Clean Water program - to terminate it! He vetoed the Clean Water legislation. I managed the bill on the floor and we overrode his veto by one vote. One vote. And so it is not beyond the realm of possibility. Would anyone from Maine want to go back to the days before the Clean Water program? You couldn't find a person that would take that position and yet that was almost the case. By one vote we overrode the president. So I think it could happen. And if President Bush is re-elected it is likely to happen.
I think there will be a difficult, painful, political effort to reduce the effectiveness all in the name of flexibility, energy self-sufficiency. There will be good and noble sentiments expressed in the titles of whatever legislation they make, and they've gotten very good at making up titles that actually are the opposite of what the bill will do. It's a major issue. I'm distressed at the fact that very few Americans - at least at this stage - seem to care about it. It doesn't seem to be a major issue to them, unfortunately. Whether it will be in the campaign or not I don't know, but I think it should be.
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Chilean building requires thick concrete walls to make the structure very rigid to hopefully withstand the shaking.
In Seattle, building are constructed to go with the flow.
Brian Stevens with the Seattle Department Of Planning And Development says, "There might be some structural damage to the building. It really depends on the type of quake we see and the duration of the quake but the code is set up so that the building actually moves with the quake so the forces are spread out throughout the building and folks inside can exit safely with minimal damage to the building."
That's the good news, and UW seismologist Bill Steele agrees, but he says there is bad news too.
Steele says, "The long duration of shaking that a subduction zone earthquake will produce will challenge a lot of our larger structures because it's very rich in long period energy that tends to excite bigger structures whether or not many buildings collapse I think we do face the chance of severe economic losses that will impact our area for a very long time."
The good news is Seattle's building code is updated on a regular basis. Every time there is a major quake anywhere in the world scientists study it to see what can be learned and what needs to changed to strengthen our building code. Those updates happen about every three years.


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Fast-growing local search engine CitySquares has incorporated Facebook Connect. Now, you can use your Facebook account to sign into the site.
When you do, you can invite Facebook friends to CitySquares and control which information from Facebook you want visible on the local site (name, hometown, birthday, etc.)
The CitySquares teams plans further integration of Facebook Connect in the future. It will include enabling users to update their Facebook accounts when they rate a business.
Ben Saren, CitySquares CEO, says it's all part of recognizing the close relationship between social and local.
"The Local Web and the Social Web are related," wrote Saren on the CitySquares blog. "OK they're not sisters, but they're definitely cousins. The now and the future of local will see much more social features and functionalities."
As such, adding Twitter integration is also in the works.
"There's a whole strategy we're going to evolve that into for community and neighborhood pages, to effectively create a waterfall of real-time locally relevant information that both pulls content in, and distributes content out. I know that sounds a little too conceptual, but hang in there - you'll see what we mean very soon," explained Saren.
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It felt funny asking on a record-tying 87-degree day, but when I went to mail a package earlier this week, I couldn't help myself.
"When will you be receiving Christmas stamps?"
I had already purchased invitations for my annual Christmas party. Stamping them was my next step.
"We've been getting that question a lot," the cashier told me. "It'll be around Oct. 15."
When I saw her motioning toward a poster featuring this year's Christmas stamps, I checked it out, eager to explore my options. (Not all stamps are created equal, you know.)
"The ornaments are kind of cute," she said. "They're calling them 'holiday baubles.' Not Christmas ornaments."
I could hear the exasperation in her voice, and we shared a chuckle over the ridiculousness of that name.
"That whole PC thing drives me nut," she confessed.
Back home, I checked them out online. Sure enough: "Holiday Baubles," with a description that pulled off some verbal gymnastics in order to avoid the C-word:
These festive Holiday Baubles (Forever®) stamps feature four colorful ornaments sure to add to the joys of the holiday season. These baubles may also inspire fond memories of beloved tree ornaments from childhood-objects that still have the power to enchant us today.
While styles from the 1950s inspired the ornaments depicted in the stamp art, sincere wishes for happy holidays never go out of fashion. These stamps offer a fashionably "retro" way to enhance the season's greetings.
But I am grateful for the Madonna and Child stamp, which the U.S. Postal Service has been featuring as its "traditional Christmas stamp" since 1978. I take a pride in using such distinctly Catholic stamps.
I love the "Madonna and Sleeping Child by Sassoferrato" the Postal Service has offered the last two years – it depicts such a warm, loving embrace with that golden glow – but the Madonna and Child post offices will sell this year is "Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael." It's colder and not as tender, but I suppose it was time to mix it up, and I do appreciate the description of the painting, which was produced in the Vatican City because of a papal commission:
The artist known to posterity as Raphael had it all — he was talented, handsome, and even-tempered. At a very young age, he became a great master of the Italian High Renaissance. A detail from his painting, Madonna of the Candelabra, showing the Madonna and Child, is the traditional Christmas stamp for 2011.
He was born Raffaello Sanzio in the city of Urbino in 1483, where his father taught him to paint. He was being called a "master" artist while still in his teens. Drawn by the reputations of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he went to Florence as a young man to soak up that city's learning.
In 1508, Raphael was summoned by Pope Julius II to Rome, where he spent the last dozen years of his short life in an inspired burst of activity. The masterpieces he produced there include the painting reproduced on this stamp, Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael (Forever®), dating to around 1513.
Raphael ran a large and active workshop. Assistants certainly painted the angels (not shown in the stamp art) flanking the central figures in Madonna of the Candelabra, and possibly other parts. This tondo (circular painting), oil on panel, is now in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
And when it comes to Catholic stamps, I'm still very pleased the Postal Service dedicated a Mother Teresa stamp last September. I loaded up when they arrived at our local post office and felt a little lift every time I peeled one off, picturing her joyful, creased smile paving the path for my mail, greeting carriers and recipients as only she can.
I'll choose to focus on our postage victories, but I refuse to call Christmas ornaments "holiday baubles." Are you with me?
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If it appears like a whine so be it. Very few persons in marketing wish to indulge the Christian consumer anymore. I too, applaud the postal companies for their variety in stamps during the holiday season. But, someetimes do to convenience I can't always get to the post office and rely on gift shops and grocery stores for my stamps? I feel like I'm making a black market purchase.
Many a Christmas season I've been told to go to the post office because my choice of stamp just 'isn't a seller' or unavailable. There is alwways talk about how the media influences others. I think it depends upon who is doing the influencing and who is the receiver of it. I don't ask everyine to believe as I do, worship as I do. But, in the HOLIDAY spirit can't you indulge me once a year?
So I will by my CHRISTMAS stamps with CHRISTMAS baubles on them to place on my CHRISTMAS cards inbetween decorating my CHRISTMAS tree with lovely CHRISTMAS ornaments all in the spirit of the magical CHRISTMAS season.
"So I will by my CHRISTMAS stamps with CHRISTMAS baubles on them to place on my CHRISTMAS cards in between decorating my CHRISTMAS tree with lovely CHRISTMAS ornaments all in the spirit of the magical CHRISTMAS season."
The focus on trees, ornaments, Santa, etc. was first step on the path from CHRISTmas to where we are today. With the increasing prevalence of anti-religious, and especially anti-Catholic sentiment in modern culture, I think it's important that all Christians take the lead in bringing back the CHRISTmas season, not just the Christmas season. Skip the baubles and buy the Madonna stamps. They are Forever stamps, so if you stock up now you can use them throughout the year, even after the January postage increase.


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Put together these two titles in a unique arrangement, and you have a hit! Tom Anderson has created a winning combination of great titles, swinging style, and arranging creativity in this piece. This challenging work will motivate your choir, rather than discourage them. A wonderful opportunity to share a little of the history of swing music with your choir!
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Now that the President's Plaza project is moving forward without a $5 million dollar cash infusion from the City, the Rapid City Chamber of Commerce takes a side.
The Rapid City Council has been divided on the progress of the project, while some members supported the cash infusion, others did not. Members of the Rapid City Chamber of Commerce want the council to do whatever it can to get the project going.
Marnie Hermann spoke on behalf of the Chamber in support of the project. "The mission of the Rapid City Chamber is to promote a strong business climate in the Black Hills we seek to work with business and government bodies to grow our local economy we strongly believe that the President's Plaza development support the mission, vision and goals of the chamber and our members," said Hermann.
The council will continue to discuss the amended contract with Dream Design.
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Grace, the Youth Worker and the Age of Social Media
Somehow, it happens. Those of us who are committed to keeping our ears to the social relevance track, can get run over by the Bieber train. I was looking through my twitter feed and discovered that I was getting updates from Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus and the band Big Time Rush. I suspected it has something to do with the three young teenage daughters I have.
It's a national pass-time to keep up with people who make news. I have a few friends who live very public lives in front of millions. Their lot is not one I want. I can barely keep from stepping on my own tongue in front of my own limited circle of friends and staff. The most familiar pattern I continue to repeat is to post or tweet an emotional response, only to realize that it would most likely be misunderstood by too many. Then I delete it.
One of my greatest fears is that as I get older, I may lose my filter. I am worried that as an elderly man I may let lose with all of the statements that I have held back over the years. My filter is held in place by only the smallest thread of concern for the perceptions of others. It's a pretty unsure mooring.
Maybe that is why I am so sensitive to the sin that comes directly from our involvement on the informational fast track. It is so simple to gossip now. It is a one click sin. It requires no premeditation. All we have to do is listen.
I have encountered it several times in the last few months. A friend will tell me about a tweet from a famous minister that is inappropriate, or even wrong. They know it's true because it was on their blog, twitter or Facebook account. I listen. Now I have to determine if the information is relevant. It may even be preachable.
It is also gossip. It brings big people down and brings common people up. It also makes me a judge of motivations, meanings and nuance. Dangerous stuff.
My simple word to the wise is this. In 2 Timothy 2:26, Paul states that his prayer is this, "that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.
I have so much more information now with which to be discerning. It is a responsibility for me to demonstrate so much more discernment that ever before. As a leader of students, and many of them have very little else to worry about besides whether Tim and Taylor are dating, I need to show them how to have information with an equal douse of grace. Here is my simple recipe for being a grace-giver.
1. I don't read because I'm curious. That is the same thing as researching a rumor through my network of middle-schoolers. Social media is too vast to hold accountable. I'll wait until Kim Kardashian tells me herself before I react.
2. I cannot be the passer of information unless I am the solver of the crisis. The truth here is that a tweet is not a desperate cry for my evaluation of lifestyles. Justin will have to call me before I let him know whether he should stay single for a while after his break-up.
3. Consider the source. Anything designed to get me to gossip comes from a bad source. I would rather talk about something that matters.
4. I am not smart, perceptive or attentive enough to evaluate. Sometimes, I can misunderstand something that I heard, firsthand. I have had arguments over things that happen in my own home. I am going to have to be okay with the fact that I am not called to head the media police.
Lord, make me a grace giver in the information age. Let me be deaf to the noise that shapes my opinions. Let me be a hearer of truth.
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Any Warren County basketball player or fan looking for a warm reception need not make the journey down Highway 55 tonight. The atmosphere in Coffee County High School gym won't be pleasant.
Tonight's District 6-AAA games against the Red Raiders and Lady Raiders should have big ramifications in the district standings, but the battle on the court may not be as interesting as the battle in the stands.
After Coffee County visited Warren County Jan. 4, a night that ended with Pioneer senior Nick Simmons connecting on a three-point play in the waning seconds to give Warren County its first district victory, fans from both sides engaged in a heated discussion on the court that continued outside Charlie Dalton Gym.
The war of words has continued for three weeks, with fans taking to social media sites to promote tonight's district showdown. Twitter arguments have been heated and Facebook events have been made in preparation for the Red Raiders' revenge.
The Pioneers enter the game with a phrase "tuckered out," fitting quite well. Warren County expended plenty of energy Tuesday night in an upset bid against the Cookeville Cavaliers, but the Pioneers fell 65-54. Adding the team's already thin roster was the absence of senior leading scorer Tucker Smith.
Smith was out with an illness, which could keep him out of tonight's game as well. Smith was a key factor in a 46-45 win three weeks ago against the Red Raiders as he scored 17 points.
Coach Malcolm Montgomery hopes the effort of his team against Cookeville without Smith, which gave Kendall Rutledge more scoring opportunities on his way to a 24-point performance, continues tonight.
"I thought we played really hard against Cookeville, we just couldn't make the shot that got us over the hump," said Montgomery. "Without Tucker, the guys seemed to play inspired ball to make up for his loss. If he's out for an extended period, we'll have to keep that level of intensity up."
While the Pioneers have two district victories and a narrow loss against Cookeville on their résumé, the Lady Pioneers are hoping to reverse their trend of blowouts against District 6-AAA opponents tonight.
Outside of a 34-28 victory last Friday over the Cumberland County Lady Jets, the Warren County girls team has lost its three other district games by a combined total of 89 points. Included in those lopsided losses was being crushed 64-32 by the Cookeville Lady Cavaliers Tuesday night.
While the outcome looked bad on paper, coach Erick Baird thought his Lady Pioneers showed some fight against the league-leading Lady Cavaliers.
"We started off slow, falling down by double digits in the first quarter," said Baird. "We played them even through the second and third quarters, even cutting the deficit to eight at one point in third. We had a few turnovers that let it slip away and they scored 14 unanswered points in the late stages when I went to the bench."
Coffee County was a big winner at Charlie Dalton Gym Jan. 4, blowing out the Lady Pioneers 52-24. No Warren County player scored in double figures as the team dropped to 0-8 against the Lady Raiders since the current District 6-AAA format was put in place before the 2009-10 season.
The Lady Pioneers will be looking for that elusive first win tonight when action tips off at 6 p.m.


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Sunday, January 23, 2011 | Categories: Episodes
On Cross Country Checkup: funding politics
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he'll campaign in the next election to end the public subsidy for political parties. The opposition parties are all against it.
What do you think? Should parties raise their own money ...or should a portion come from public funds?
With host Rex Murphy.
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Everyone will remember, well - everyone interested in Canadian politics, a slightly smaller class - when Stephen Harper in 2008, fresh from a victory at the polls - a minority, but a substantial one - he had 143 seats the Liberals had 77 ...announced that his government intended to stop the direct public subsidy of political parties. That led to what we now lovingly refer to as the prorogation crisis, and a quite agitated debate about the Harper style, and, to a lesser degree the idea that started the whole racket: should politicial parties be subsidized or underwritten from the public purse.
Well, now Stephen Harper, in a less dramatic context, and with some forewarning, has raised this issue again. This time he's doing so with the continuing recession as his background --- and giving advance notice. So perhaps it is possible to debate the idea itself, rather than just the politics:
Do you agree with the way the federal government supports, subsidizes the political parties? Today it's based on how many votes each party gets ...about $2 per vote ...and after the last election that has amounted so far to $27-million dollars divided between the parties. It's a formula that was created by the government of Jean Chretien to compensate for cutting off the contributions of large organizations such as corporations and unions.
Do you think this is the best, the most advantageous way of maintain political parties? It's not the only way, because parties are free to raise money from their supporters, which comes with a tax benefit for the donors, and all parties get a 50% rebate from the public purse for their election expenses (up to a limit of $10-million).
Also, to get to the politics of it - why is this idea of ending public subsidy apparently so popular with the Tories? It's not just ideological. Opponents will maintain that the Tories will always, or nearly always, be better fund raisers than either the Liberals or the NDP. Is Mr. Harper merely trying to institute a system that will give his party a structural advantage.
And then there's the Bloc. Under our current system some people do find it irritating that the federal treasury of our national government supplies funds for an avowedly separatist party. Not only that ...the federal money constitutes almost 90% of the party's total funding. Would changing the system at least remove the irritation of the national government funding the effort to break itself up?
What's you're position on federal funding for political parties? Should be current system be changed?
What would reformed system look like. How much 'politics' is behind the current proposal?
There are many different options ...from making parties raise their own money ...to providing public funds under conditions that match their own efforts, or their success at the polls.
How much money should parties have? Where should it come from? What should they spend it on ...technology, travel, town hall meetings, or TV ads? Should parties be forced to raise money from their own supporters ...or does the whole party system in a democracy require a boost from all taxpayers?
Our question today: "Should political parties be funded by tax dollars?"
I'm Rex Murphy ...on CBC Radio One ...and on Sirius satellite radio channel 137 ...this is Cross Country Checkup.
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It is easy to understand why Mr. Harper wants to eliminate the subsidies to political parties. It would give him a huge political advantage. However, we would drift even further from being a democratic nation.
Conservative support comes largely from people with deep pockets, who can afford large donations very easily. No pain involved for them, only the promise of more wealth. Now, consider for a moment, single parents on a limited income, all those workers earning about $10 per hour, unemployed, students, people living on the street, etc. Do you think they can donate amounts equal to our wealthy portion population (Conservatives)? Not very damn likely.
The Conservatives could run attack ads forever and a day, and never be broke. It makes me sick to think how undemocratic our country is becoming. It makes me even sicker to think of the future.
Shirley Walker
Mission, British Columbia
Absolutely do not remove funding that helps democratize a system that is easily influenced by wealth. Naturally, this is an initiative of a government (and a political party) which has the primary drive of removing power from you and me, joe public, and handing it off to private interests. Over the past years in power, they have raided the coffers and pushed restructuring to leave the coffers as open as possible after they leave.
Because this party is the most aligned with the interest to remove wealth from the nations coffers and move it to corporations, they are the most able to fund their campaigning through donations. Therefore, the proposition they have made will ensure the advancement of parties which most represent the wealthy and least represent the middle class and the struggling.
What this party has done so well, modelling greatly on the Republicans in the US, is build a slick communication machinery which sells themselves as beneficial to the average Canadian. The educated voter knows the opposite is true.
Cathrine Morginn
In our first-past-the-post system, an individual's vote only counts for anything substantial if it contributes to the tally for the winning representative. Thus, in a riding like mine, where the popular vote is always overwhelmingly for a party I do not support, my voting seems futile. Knowing, however, that my vote counts for money for the party that I support, makes a huge difference. Voting is a duty, and everyone should participate, but voters will feel much more ownership of the process if each vote counts for something tangible.
Rebecca Tyson
Kelowna, British Columbia
If Harper wants to do away with the subsidies he will have to introduce proportional voting or we will not have a real democratic system. We know that at least ten per cent vote for the Green Party, yet it has no representation in our House of Parliament because of our present system. Countries like Sweden, New Zealand and Holland are using the proportional system and it works well. Why can we not have have a democratic voting system in our country?
Anita MacLean
Ottawa, Ontario
Dear Mr Murphy,
If the CBC gave you a subsidy based on the number of listeners that you have on a weekly basis would that not be the same as this political party subsidy. What would you say to that?
Thank you,
Paul Selzer
Something else to keep in mind is that under the current system I can donate to the party of my choice through a secret ballot: my vote. True, I can donate to the party of my choice anonymously by giving them cash, but if I claim my tax credit, then I am essentially declaring my vote. Also, do those who want to remove the per-vote subsidy also want to remove tax credits for political party donations, which are another form of a public subsidy?
Cameron Smith
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Finally, a way to limit the Bloc Quebecois! I have a problem with any purely regional party being in The House to begin with. Perhaps we should require all parties who seek subsidy to run candidates in every riding, like the Greens do.
Thomas Brawn
Ottawa, Ontario
Public financing for elections should stop. Just how much does these people cost us? Huge salaries, free travel, huge expense account, gold pensions, bring your wife along "Canada pays", see the world on us, etc. Just what is the real cost of these people?
Eric Baggs
Topsail, Newfoundland
We will, no doubt, get the best government money can buy. That's not democratic. Take away the subsidy, the big money will step in. It would be refreshing to see a common sense, rational race without the trash.
Barney Stewart
Etobicoke, Ontario
So my tax dollars are paying for all those annoying lawn signs, and attack ads in the media? This is absolute lunacy! I believe that the parties need to fund their campaigns, additionally there should be no charity receipts. The amount of money to run any campaign should be severely limited. Let's have more debate in town hall meetings and in the media. How about some intelligent and reasonable discussion? As far as the Bloq, a century ago they would have been hung for treason. They shouldn't get a cent.
Love your program,
Paul Woolley
Sarnia, Ontario
Party funding should be discontinued from all sources except the government. The government should fund pre-qualified riding candidates to the same amount regardless of party and regardless of area. All other funding should be eliminated. To pre-qualify a candidate would need to post a bond of reasonable amount.
Thomas Price
Whitefish, Ontario
I generally support the per vote subsidy, and if it were up to me I would eliminate the tax deduction for political donations and increase the per vote subsidy proportionally. The per vote subsidy provides a small incentive (for most people) to vote, helps new parties to emerge, and helps parties which may represent the interests and perspectives of disadvantaged groups in society. You don't need to have the most money to get your message out, but you do need enough money.
It should be stressed that people aren't forced to donate to parties which they don't agree with. Money only flows when the voter votes, and only to the party they vote for.
The actual loss of freedom here is that the voter can not vote for a party without directing their allotted share of funds to that party. (I may want to send a message with my vote, especially in a riding which is not competitive, without directing funds to the party I vote for.)
Dwayne Crowe
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Rex is confused. Removal of the public funding will hit the Bloc the hardest, but that's not because the Bloc's votes are concentrated - they're just getting funded for each vote they receive. It is because they raise proportionally less money from their supporters than the other parties do. They are, in other words, currently more dependent on the public funding and would be harder hit if they lost that funding.
Scott Remborg
Toronto, Ontario
Should the government fund political parties? Only if we want to live in a democracy!
It is a simple and clear-cut situation. Removing this funding steals political leverage from the poor. Removing this funding would allow the more affluent to gain even greater leverage and the poor would be further disadvantaged. The less well off people of society have been hurt by many of the policies of the Conservatives who are advocating this change.
This move is anti-democratic pure and simple. The Conservative party speaks about furthering democracy but in action they have made many anti-democratic moves. The list is long and sordid, from enticing Emerson to cross the floor less than 24 hours after the 2006 election, to prorogation to not giving information to the parliamentary budgetary officer.
Improve democracy! Keep this funding in place. Furthermore reduce the cap for personal donations to a reasonable level, say $400 annually.
Tom Cullen
Toronto, Ontario
What Stephen Harper should do (but likely won't) is declare that all party spending between elections (notably media ads and flyers) counts towards total campaign spending for the next election. That would put a full stop to all attack ads prior to dropping the writ.
Clayton Tucker
Guelph, Ontario
If we care about our democracy we better ensure that we do not turn to a U.S. style campaign funding where big money wins all. Rex says that if we did not have public funding the parties would have to go out and meet people and do the funding. Yes, true. But the point is that the Conservatives' corporate philosophy appeals to wealthy Canadians and at the other end of the spectrum the socially democratic NDP supports, and is supported largely by, poor or lower middle class Canadians. Take the fund raising dinners where Tories charge $500 per plate while the NDP collects $35 per plate. That tells the story.
Ron Brydges
St. Catharines, Ontario
Welcome back, great to hear you on the airwaves again!
About your question today, the only reason Stephen Harper wants to do this is to annihilate the opposition. This amount of money is not going to pay down our burgeoning deficit that his government has run up. The vote subsidy is a minute price to pay in our democracy. How much did the "fake lake" cost us?
This Tory government has been on a spending spree since it came into power. They have some nerve talking about cutting back on the one hand and spending, spending, spending on the other hand. New, expensive untendered fighter jets come to mind. Spending on more prisons when the crime rate keeps going down is another Conservative specialty, and I could go on. This government is the worse example of hypocrisy I have ever seen.
Cheers, Rex!
Anne Marie Hughes
Beaconsfield, Quebec
Dear Rex Murphy,
A healthy democracy occasionally needs a good shake up, and new political parties. Without public financing of parties, there would be a prohibitively steep financial barrier for new parties to enter the arena. Private funding only serves to entrench "mature" parties. I think both the Conservatives and the Liberals are long past their prime.
Robert Rankin
Port Rowan, Ontario
Hello Rex,
During the show on political funding you asked several times why the other parties can't raise funds in the same way and with the same success as the Conservatives. Well, it's simple: The Conservatives' policies benefit the rich more than any other group in Canada. This makes it a lot easier to solicit donations. Whereas the NDP, for example, have policies that aim to help all Canadians by creating an equitable society by providing support for the poor and disenfranchised - a part of the population who are less able to provide political funding.
I agree that the Bloc are taking advantage of the situation unfairly, but this is easy to fix. Require all parties that run at the National level run candidates across the country.
Finally, please don't fall for Harper's argument that anything he does is for fiscally sound reasons. Spending money on building prisons rather than on programmes to enable people to get themselves out of poverty, and to deal with mental health issues, and the obscene amount spent on the G20, highlights his hypocrisy.
Thanks, enjoyed the show.
Ben Darrah
Kingston, Ontario
First, as a young non-Conservative supporter in Alberta, the public subsidy attached to the vote is one of the few factors that motivate myself and others to go through the demoralizing ritual of voting for the NDP in suburban Edmonton every few years. Attaching a small amount, even a few dollars, to my vote, gives it some weight to an act that will surely not have any political influence.
Second, to the point that the elimination of these vote-based subsidies would encourage more public engagement on the part of political parties, I would argue the opposite is true. If private donations were eliminated or drastically reduced and vote-based public funding became the primary revenue source for federal parties they would be forced to fundraise by attracting votes. And how would those votes be attracted? By citizen engagement - not just of the wealthy or the so called "base" of each party - but of all Canadians.
Thomas B.
Edmonton, Alberta
Not sure how this became the process in the first place. In my opinion, to be truly democratic, if they get public money they should be getting equal amounts. This backward logic of paying per vote is insanity. Perhaps the parties with the larger amounts should pay back some of the excess? Keep the tax deductible status for individual donations, with a cap on the same.
Thanks for your informative and interesting show.
Amy Meyer
Chetwynd, British Columbia
It is crazy that we the tax payers are giving money to a party that wants to break up the country.
Michael Mountford
Toronto, Ontario
The political contribution tax credit is the funding I would like to see eliminated. It is deeply undemocratic. If a poor person and a rich person each decide to donate $25 to a political party, here's what happens: the poor person gives $25, and because they do not earn enough to have a taxable income, that's what the political party gets. Meanwhile, the rich person gives $100 and gets $75 of it back from the federal goverment. The rich person spends $25, the government spends $75 in unrealized income tax, and the party gets $100. The per-vote financing, on the other hand, means that every individual has the opportunity to direct a specific amount of funding toward a party of their choice, simply by casting a vote.
Eleanor Conrad
Roslin, Nova Scotia
When the Chretien government introduced the current form of public funding of political parties, it severely restricted the ability of the parties to raise funds from some traditional sources, such as corporations and trade unions. Harper's previous attempt to remove the public funding of parties was mean-spirited and fundamentally undemocratic in that he did not also seek to restore the ability of parties to raise funds from their traditional sources. He opted to maintain the restrictions on fundraising (which hurts his opponents far more than his own party), while cutting off the lifeblood of public funds.
Whether or not we publicly fund our parties is not the issue. The issue is whether, without public funds, our political parties are free to raise funds from whatever source they can.
Glenn McLean
Drayton Valley, Alberta
I believe we should continue to fund the parties but we should use that funding to impose some control over our elections. If we are concerned about the level and accuracy of the debate, then why not dissallow any public funding to be put towards negative, attack ads that either exagerate or outright lie? I would take it one step further and fine any party that ran these ads or used other means to insight anger and fear. We would simply withold a percentage of the public funding for every transgression. I realize that we would have to establish some sort of standards but I would quote that judge who in trying to decide between art and pornography: "I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it." I think Canadians recognize the difference between a leader who can inspire through real vision and those who settle for making us angry and afraid.
Kate Kehler
I think all political parties should receive funding from tax dollars. I like the idea of providing money to parties based on the amount of votes they receive. I think that there should be a limit on how much money can be spent on campaigns and this limit should be modest. This helps to maintain a certain level of sophistication and intelligent discussion in Canadian political campaigns, which I feel is lacking in other parts of this continent.
I think large campaign budgets end up being used for developing fancy advertising strategies which promote a political brand, yet are often devoid of relevant information that is necessary for informed decisions. Large amounts of money can be successfully spent on communicating strong, likable images (such as tough-on-crime and increasing employment), which relieves the party from having to communicate detailed information about their positions on relevant social issues.
Finally, restrictions on campaign budgets, and in particular television and radio advertising, would level the playing field and would eliminate any perception of unfairness between parties who, for example, are backed by corporations and those that represent the people from different social classes.
Ottawa, Ontario
As a rule we would expect tax dollars to be spent only on goods and services which benefit the public. It is quite arguable that political parties do not qualify as providing a benefit to the public.
As party discipline has become stronger, the role of our individual representatives has diminished. There was a time when a leader owed his position to the support of his caucus. Now an individual MP is relevant only in the numbers game which determines which party is invited to form a government. Between elections they are expected only to toe the line. Parties have long since ceased to be vehicles for bringing forth ideas and informing voters how they intend to govern. Attack ads and the like are hardly public benefits, but it seems to be quite a lot of what parties are about now.
My preference is that parties be given no public funding whatever. Let their supporters pay.
Calgary, Alberta
Creating new political parties is very difficult in Canada. Regardless of whether their policies meet with public approval, funding limits their access to the public through the media. Many people are jaded with the current parties and their ways of doing, or not doing things, yet find their electoral options do not represent their priorities or ethics. Funding needs to address this shortcoming.
Barry Waterlow
Burnaby, British Columbia
I am sick and tired of hearing people from elsewhere in Canada express their thought (and I use the term loosely) that the Bloc Quebecois should not receive the same benefits of the state that every other political party receives. If they are present in the House of Commons, it is because voters have chosen to send them there - voters who pay the same taxes that everyone else does, and whose choices are equally valid as those of others.
I am a little disappointed in your characterization of this question as 'should we be giving public funds to politicians?' when it was always about removing the money question and the possible corruption that follows, apportioning resources based on the choices of voters.
Ken Monteith
Montreal, Quebec
My dictionary gives this definition of a bribe: "Something offered or serving to influence or persuade." What else, by this definition, are campaign contributions by corporations and unions to politicians? The Harper government is seeking nothing less than to resurrect a system of legalized bribery that should be permanently consigned to the trash bin of our history. Let us at all costs stay off the slippery slope towards the U.S. system of unlimited free-for-all campaign funding that has empowered well financed, high-pressure interests such as the gun lobby and the Israel lobby virtually to dictate to the government important domestic and foreign policies that are contrary to the national interest.
Stewart Brown
Peterborough, Ontario


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