Why are taxpayers still footing the bill for separatist' pensions?

Conservative activist Stephen Taylor raises a great point about Canadian taxpayers money, in that, it's being spent very imprudently so that retired separatist can live comfortably. To be honest, it's simply appalling that our well earned tax-dollars are going towards a pension ($110,000 annually) wherein the person receiving it led an attempt (on a daily basis) to break up our country, not to mention, he compared our national hockey team captain (who represents our country internationally) to a bank robber. Frankly, this is almost as execrable as Hamid Karzai's new Afghan government approving a pension for Osama Bin Laden. In other words, it just doesn't make sense. And as Taylor adds:

Why is the bloc still running candidates for federal office? How are their dreams for sovereignty served by sitting in Ottawa, collecting a salary (and eventually a pension) paid for by Canadian Taxpayers?

As the leader of the third largest party, Duceppe occupies a better office on the hill than the leader of the "fourth party": Jack Layton. Read full post