When news broke recently that four federal political parties had applied for taxpayer support from an emergency wage subsidy program intended to support struggling businesses, it fell to the leader of the Bloc Quebecois, of all people, to say the obvious.
"I find it absolutely unacceptable," said Yves-Francois Blanchet, whose party was the only one not to apply for the subsidy, noting that the Liberals and Conservatives in particular had already raised millions of dollars in donations before the COVID-19 crisis ever hit.