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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
That’d a be a pretty neat trick considering legally Unions aren’t allowed to make contributions to political parties in Alberta. (Since you’re having trouble keeping up it’s probably worth pointing out to you that the NDP put that into law)
Again, legally they wouldn’t be allowed to do so even if they wanted to. Bonus points to you for using a non-partisan Union like Teamsters Canada as your example. It really helps illustrate to people reading this exactly how misinformed you are on this subject.
I’m inclined to agree with you. But while we’re on the subject if you had to guess, which party do you think that those top executives and wealthy Albertans would be most likely to give gifts(bribes) to now that the UCP has removed the $200 cap on that?
Basically my assessment of your post is that despite you claiming to be “familiar” with it, you don’t really know what bill 32 is do you? Otherwise you would have certainly made at least some references to it in your post rather than opting to make bizarre misinformed vague statements that don’t really have anything to do with it.
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I am not going to debate you on campaign and pre-campaign financing rules. The NDP and the UCP don't just get their funds from grandma's and $5 donations. This is big business, at least for Canada. The NDP was out funding the UCP for a long long time, it wasn't an overwhelming amount of small, individual donors. It was dollars from people, businesses, backed organized labour assisting directly or indirectly with funds and with organizational support.
You make this seem like the NDP law banning Union donations and the cap being removed from the UCP like dollars aren't flowing into their pockets. Do you recall massive protests from organized labour after the NDP blocked union donations? Alberta Federation of Labour calling for Notley's head ? CUPE talking about NDP corruption and being hamstrung ? Probably not cause they can get their dollars to flow, just like the conservatives can as well.
There isn't CRA level financial forensic auditing here with campaigns either through 3rd party or directly. Everybody says we should get rid of donations and big money in politics but these parties aren't raising millions with my $10 donation and your $22 baked goods sale at your local CA office.