(Source: Jason Kenney/Facebook)
OTTAWA—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 from , and a two-year membership is down to from .
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 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.
Three-year and five-year membership fees have also dropped in the new plan, and a new four-year membership option is now available.
The party says that anyone who purchased a party membership this year for $25 would receive an additional year of membership for free.