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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
He's referring to the senate scandal and the fund that the CPC allegedly used to pay Duffy's expenses back with. It is, as usual, a deflection tactic. And if I go find the senate scandal thread, I wonder what Slava's opinion might have been? Something tells me that I wont find "meh, no big deal".
Besides, it's an apples to oranges comparison. If the Conservatives can operate such a fund federally, so too can the Liberals, NDP, Bloc, etc. They don't have a self-serving grandfathered fund that is illegal for everyone else like the provincial Tories do.
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There are huge differences here to be sure. I brought this up because Jacks mentioned that every political party in the country is disclosing everything, when clearly they're not! That was a blatant example.
I do think that parties should have to disclose a lot more than they do, but I also think that electoral finance should be a lot more regulated and reviewed than it is currently regardless of that disclosure.
I love that you noted that every other party could have that kind of fund federally, but ignore that other parties could've run the same kind of fund provincially. Why is that? Aside from the fact that it would've happened before 1977 why couldn't the Liberals, NDP or Socreds have set up a trust like this?