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Originally Posted by Slava
I'm not condoning the lying (if there is any here, nor in general). All I'm saying is that if that's the biggest issue though, its hardly newsworthy. A politician lied...OMG! I think you would agree that's nothing new. I guess I don't really care if she knew or not. If it's one cheque and later they had to try to cover their tracks, I think they ought to face prosecution as a party. If its distasteful but not illegal though, thats about it.
I do wonder about this though: what if Katz just genuinely didn't want the Wildrose and wanted to contribute a lot of cash as a result? What if the arena is legitimately a side issue (which clearly makes the optics look bad), but he and his family, etc. were contributing based on their not wanting a Wildrose government?
Before anyone jumps on me here, I've already said that I think these types of contributions show the exact issue with the state of electoral finance in the province. Frankly, the personal limit is a joke at $30k, and that should be cut to $1000 in my opinion.
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Fair enough i guess...but now i will pull a Slava on you and make things hypothetical
If Danielle Smith was premier, and stood up in the legislature proclaiming repeatedly something you soundly believed untrue...would you still have the same opinon?
Honest question.