Conservative party lowers membership fees amid pressure from MPs
Posted April 23, 2016 9:22 am.
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OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – The Conservative party’s national council has voted to lower its membership fees after several MPs called for change.
A one-year membership has dropped to $15 from $25, and a two-year membership is down to $25 from $30.
On Friday, former defence minister Jason Kenney published a post on his website, saying the party should lower fees to $10 annually to encourage broader membership. He wrote that the fee had recently been raised to $25 by the national council, and he feared the cost was discouraging people from joining the party.
Earlier in the month, Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai issued a press release that said he thought the $25 fee would turn the party into an “elitist and white-only” club.
Obhrai said the Conservative fee was the highest of all of Canada’s parties.
