Author Topic: The Official Opposition thread (was O’Toole thread)  (Read 11458 times)

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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Chretien brought in an unpopular, but very effective, way of publicly funding political parties.  It took away corporate and union donations and limiting single donations to a very small amount.  It worked very well at minimal cost to taxpayers, but Harper got rid of it. 

I think Harper was of the opinion that money should do the talking in politics.    I think that’s still the CPC position and also the Liberal position these days.

I looked at my the list of political donations to my local city counselor.  It was filled with people connected to real estate development.  I guess when housing developers want to obtain the green light to develop more land for it pays to grease the palms a bit.  Donations were limited too but CEOs would put donations through all their family members.
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