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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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Am I taking crazy pills? What is your point that other parties could have set it up before 1977? That still prejudices newer parties like the WRA, Green, Marijuana, whatever. It shouldn't exist at all.
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I'm only defending this because its totally legal. If you want my true opinion of electoral finance and disclosure, its a complete joke. But that is a whole other issue and whole other discussion. You seem to be against this purely on the basis that its the PCs. Where was this outrage when Harper and the federal CPC had the same fund come to light last spring?
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It's only legal because the governing party of this province for the last 50 years made theirs legal.
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