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Originally Posted by curves2000
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.
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Care to back any of this up with a shred of evidence?
I haven't dug into the big picture at all, but it is totally plausible to me that the NDP did this on the back of a lot of $200ish donations (which means $50 out of pocket). Get that from a decent chunk of teachers and nurses and doctors and you're set.
You know you can literally go to this website
https://www.elections.ab.ca/finance/...ial-reporting/ and find the name of every donation, right? I found my own name. But it's probably still a conspiracy.