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Originally Posted by Slava
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?
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I agree with pretty much everything you said (in this post), right up until the last paragraph. While i'm completely not ok with this fund, more information needs to seen before judgement is made. so far though, the optics of it are terrible. Why other parties' collections of funds were made illegal and the pc's using their leadership position to secretly keep their (unregulated) fund going for the last 40+ years, is pretty ridiculous!
the whole party is a mess, It isn't just one person, it seems to systemic. I'm guessing this is what happens when power is unchecked for 40+ years. I just wish there were more viable options than just 2 parties in this province.