Article content continuedThe NDP’s national director Anne McGrath said the wage subsidy is about helping workers stay employed, which is exactly what they are doing with it. It’s about making sure that workers are able to keep their jobs during these tough times,” she said in an email to the National Post. Parties normally take in more money in an election year and the NDP is no different. The $1.3 million they brought in during the pandemic in 2020 is actually higher than the roughly $872,000 they collected in the same time frame in 2018. But when that $2.6 million is compared with the $3.1 million they received in 2018, a non-election year, it’s a much smaller drop, not enough to qualify for the wage subsidy.

Source: National Post August 05, 2020 11:03 UTC