$3.3 million funding cut unprecedented blow to NDP?

The NDP has been hit with a $3.3-million loss in House of Commons funding for vital research staff, political and strategic aides in party leader Tom Mulcair’s office and other caucus work after the Commons governing board of MPs and Cabinet ministers realigned House budgets following the October general election.

The cut in funding areas, each set through formula following every federal general election and based on the number of MPs each party sends to the new Parliament, promises to be an unprecedented blow to the NDP, which is still on the hook for a total of $3.9-million in impugned spending on caucus satellite offices and mailings to electors that the House governance challenged in 2014.

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