As the Koch brothers and their friends publicly contemplate spending nearly $1bn in the 2016 US election cycle (about the cost of a major presidential campaign) to reward their political friends and oppose their enemies, the extent to which money dominates US politics is on display for all to see.
The dependence on money the US political system imposes on virtually all politicians, successful and less successful, is in marked contrast to Canada, where the major parties spent roughly $20m each in the last general election campaign.
Does this affect our respective politics? You bet. I lay out just a few examples in my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen and other PostMedia newspapers.
