Compare and contrast the PC proposal to reduce the deduction on charitable but not political donations with the NDP move to allow personal but not corporate donations and tell me who has Alberta'...
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The corporate world will just switch tactics to influence government policy. Lobbying will become the new norm in Alberta with lobbyists increasing in number withincreased funding and resources. ...
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Maybe the moralists around here could apply their principles to the side taking the money as much as the side giving it by calling for the abolition of political parties. After all, if one side o...
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Monty, I am baffled by anyone who doesn't see problems with a system that allows corporations and governments to be tightly aligned. The evidence of widening gaps between the wealthy and poor is ...
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Municipal political financing will probably be tackled by the new committee being formed to look at the larger electoral legislative framework, along with rules around government transparency and...
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Funding for libraries should be abolished entirely. People can get anything on the Internet. Nenshi wastes our money, $243 million on a library that no one will use. Someone kick these people out...
https://daveberta.ca/2015/06/alberta-ndp-speech-from-the-throne/comment-page-1/#comment-279662
Monty says: McIver should be commended for standing up for democracy and a blatant mean-spirited attack by the NDP against the business community to ban their donations. =========================...
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In a democracy the government represents the people, not corporations. The needs of business are one of the things a good government must balance with the needs of the people.
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I think it is great that corporate and union donations will be prohibited at the provincial level. I am glad that the PCs won't get their usual haemorrhage of cash from their corporate buddies. M...
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Really......who cares what McIver has to say anymore??!! He and his merry Robin Hood band (of 8 others) have been ceremoniously booted to the outer banks of the back benches. It is no small coinc...
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Mr.MC Iver showed a tone of defiance and showed they were unrepentant and did not learn anything. Mr. Mc Over just proved his club is on its way to the history books. Its extinction can't come so...
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There is no question in my mind that the current provincial PC party is on its way out. It has nothing to offer. The Interim Leader continues to act like a fool and cannot accept the reality of w...
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Oh, the stages of loss. I think the PC's are now somewhere between the bewildered and denial stages, perhaps moving towards anger. However, it may be some time before they can say anything articu...
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Monty: People in the business community can still donate to political parties. All that's changed is companies can't donate. The old rule effectively gave business owners the right to donate twic...
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Monty w.a.d.r., ur a fool. Why should 30 or 40 x $30000 corporate donations be allowed to enable 30 to 40 individuals to control policy and the levers of govt? It absolutely makes no sense at all...
https://daveberta.ca/2015/06/alberta-ndp-speech-from-the-throne/comment-page-1/#comment-279394
Good of Notley to reach out to opposition parties as many who voted NDP are not party supporters and many voted other. Time for real democratic reform-proportional representation!
https://daveberta.ca/2015/06/alberta-ndp-speech-from-the-throne/comment-page-1/#comment-279378
Dave I'm totally on the other side here. McIver should be commended for standing up for democracy and a blatant mean-spirited attack by the NDP against the business community to ban their donatio...
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