I'm just going to point out that controlling who gives a party how much money during a campaign isn't as easy as everyone here might think. Its not as simple as "just look at the cheques", although that would be the common thought.
I would love to see really tight election spending and finance laws. The thing is that for every party you have a slate of volunteers who are trying their best to adhere to these rules. They have days jobs and other responsibilities in their lives, so just by the nature of that system you have mistakes and errors. Can a fleet of volunteers who've never met, and don't speak to each other spread across the province be expected to notify every other constituency that they just received a cheque for $1000 to make sure that the person didn't write 87 of them?
It has nothing to do with the party in question, its just that its incredibly difficult to police this effectively.
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