# Canadian Counties? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 27, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-counties/526665 "2010-01-27T18:09:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-counties/526665/41 "2010-01-30T07:27:17Z")
> [@md2000](#): > > What, and the Communists waited until 1998 to sue over it? No, the law was amended (based on my faulty recollection) in the 1990’s to steal the funds of minority parties. I may be wrong - maybe Mulroney was running out of brown envelopes - but Chretien was the dictator at the time IIRC. I’ll have to do some more googling later. The law was amended, as far as I know, in 1993, by the Mulroney government. The Communists got deregistered as a result of the 1993 election. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-counties/526665/42 "2010-01-30T07:33:51Z")
> [@](#): > > No, in the 1990’s they specifically changed the rules so that parties that failed to get X candidate and Y votes lost everything and were dissolved and their assets seized. Why was that necessary, other than to discourage fringe parties? Well, I think that was the reason, along with discouraging election fraud. It was to stop someone or a small group that didn’t have a chance of winning, wasn’t serious about running, and was just in it to get the money. And, the Rhinoceros Party and Social Credit Party also got deregistered for not meeting the election threshold in 1993. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-counties/526665.md?page=2)