Jason Kenney wants Conservative Party membership fee hike rolled back to $15: What about #citizenship fees?

I couldn’t help myself given the parallel.

I replaced the reference to party fees with citizenship fees, as the same logic, even more so, applies:

Former Conservative defence minister Jason Kenney is calling for the elimination of a recent hike in the cost of becoming a citizen Tory Party membership, because the new fee “significantly discourages participation” in Canadian society party politics.

Kenney made the remarks in a post on his website at a time when the Liberal Party is considering scrapping membership, and the fees that go with it, altogether.

“A citizenship fee of $630 $25 one-year fee would significantly discourage participation, particularly from those least inclined to belong in the first place,” Kenney writes. “It means about $2000 $100 for a family of four who want to participate fully in Canadian society Conservative supporters.

“It means that many immigrants and refugees seniors and single parents on modest fixed incomes will see citizenship membership as beyond their means and, as a consequence, feel either a deliberate attempt to exclude them or an indication of Canada’s party indifference or ignorance of their lives,” he adds.

‘Political parties are an ultimate political expression of a robust civil society.’– Jason Kenney

The move to roll back the citizenship  membership fee to where it was before it was hiked to $630 25 from $200 15 comes after internal criticism of the price increase by witnesses at the parliamentary hearings on Bill C-6 Conservative MPs.

Source: Jason Kenney wants Conservative Party membership fee hike rolled back to $15 – Politics – CBC News

His full op-ed: Jason Kenney: Why higher Conservative membership fees are bad for expanding the party