The cost of this unholy Union

So, I haven't heard anyone else complain about this yet, so I am going to.

Stephan Dion is throwing away $18,110.75? $1.75 a vote times 10,000 plus votes.

By comparison, the Green Party only gave up $3,167.50 for the votes they "lost" in St. Laurent Cartierville.

If, every liberal votes for May (won't happen) she will ostensibly get an additional $15,000 that she has discretion over as the leader of the greens. Sounds like a frickin' bribe to me.

Seriously, the party is in financial straights, do we really want to be throwing away more money? Not to mention give it away to somebody else...