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In the dying days of Jean Chrétien’s prime ministership, after he had long announced that he was going to retire, he pushed Bill C-24 through the House to radically change the financing of political parties and elections in Canada. Ostensibly it was to clean up the impression that corporations had too much influence on politics […]