This is Harper Canada where everything is vetted through the PCO, it's ridiculous to talk about the independence of Canadian government agencies in "Harper" Canada.
Cutting basic funding to an agency that is responsible for ensuring the lawful functioning of our electoral system by a government that has already shown large scale contempt for both the rule and spirit of that system probably isn't to the benefit of those of us who would like to also benefit from that system... as we're theoretically supposed to in a democratic system.
And I'm still on about this because unlike you apparently, I don't think the official government line is the last word, nor should it be in a functioning democratic system. Is this a conservative support group or a forum where we can have actual factual based discussions?
