Hey remember the last time there was a minority government and the Harpocrites secretly recorded a meeting. At the time the minoritiy government was the Paul Martin Liberals, and the taping was done by Tory MP Gurmeet Grewal who claimed he was being bribed to cross the floor. Well the Harpocrites are at it again releasing secret illegal tape recordings in hopes to shore up their minority government during this crisis of confidence. A Law and Order government secretly and illegally taping the opposition the hypocrisy is only matched by their desperation.
The Tories also unveiled a surreptitiously recorded tape of a New Democratic Party caucus meeting, alleging it showed a long-existing cabal with the Bloc Québécois to defeat the government — and there were rumours that as a last resort, Mr. Harper might seek to prorogue Parliament, ending the session to avoid defeat in the Commons
The Prime Minister's Office released a secretly taped recording of a conference call of the NDP caucus in which Leader Jack Layton refers to having "locked in" the support of the Bloc early.
Mr. Harper's aides argued it showed a pre-existing NDP-Bloc agreement to look for an excuse to defeat the Tories that had nothing to do with last week's economic statement.
In the recording, Mr. Layton is heard telling his MPs they have plans to cope if the Bloc goes "offside" during the coalition.
"I actually believe they're the least of our problems, but in case I'm wrong, let's just say we have strategies. This whole thing would not have happened if the moves hadn't have been made with the Bloc to lock them in early, because you couldn't put three people together in one, in three hours. The first part was done a long time ago, I won't go into details …," Mr. Layton said.
Mr. Mulcair insisted that while the two parties have spoken about co-operation on issues like employment insurance, the first NDP-Bloc talks about a coalition took place only after elements of the government's economic update were revealed last week.
He said the party mistakenly sent the conference-call number to a Conservative MP, who dialled in and recorded the meeting. He said the NDP plans to raise the action as a violation of parliamentary ethics and will consider pressing charges.
Mr. Mulcair said the Tories "illegally" recorded a private meeting, and called it "scandalous."
"It shows the desperation of the Conservatives," he said.
Mulcair added that the NDP were also pursuing legal action against the Tories for listening in and broadcasting a private discussion.
"We're already in contact with senior lawyers in that regard," he said.
And the reason to release this tape despite the possibility of facing legal charges let alone jeopradizing their declining public support?
There were also rumours that Mr. Harper might prorogue Parliament, ending the current session so he cannot be defeated in the Commons — although some said that was a last-resort option that would look desperate.
They know full well that the majority of Canadians, heck the majority of Albertans, did not vote for them.Hence the desperation to stay in power at any cost. So of course the Harpocrites are feigning outrage about a pending coalition government made up of the opposition parties, not because it is an undemocratic power grab as they spent the weekend messaging to the media, but rather because they have used the tactic in the past and know that it can be done.
Only a day earlier, Mr. Harper's chief of staff Guy Giorno sent out an e-mail that included talking points, scripts for Tory partisans to use on radio phone-in shows and a template for letters to newspaper editors. Party faithful were encouraged to "use every single tool and medium at our disposal" to spread the word that opposition parties are trying to usurp the government in a crass bid to protect their political "entitlements."
Text of PMO e-mail to Tory MPs on key talking points
Note to all Conservative members of Parliament:
As you are aware, the Opposition parties are currently discussing a plan to topple our government and replace it with a Liberal-NDP-Bloc coalition.
While we believe such an arrangement would be an affront to the democratic will of Canadians when they afforded us a strengthened mandate on October 14th, we must nonetheless take this threat very seriously.
The Conservative party asked its members to make "emergency" donations to help prevent the NDP and Liberals from forming a coalition government, the latest step undertaken by Tory officials to rally supporters. Irving Gerstein, the Conservative Fund Canada's chairman, sent an e-mail appeal to supporters over the weekend, asking them to "protect Canada's future and protect Canada's democracy from being hijacked by politicians who care about nothing more than power and entitlements."The message asks recipients to make a donation of "$200 or $100 -- whatever you can afford" and states "time is of the essence."
"The Liberals are holding secret negotiations with the socialist NDP and separatist Bloc Quebecois to overturn the wishes of Canadian voters and take power," Mr. Gerstein wrote. "They want to take power and impose on Canadians a prime minister without a personal mandate, a Liberal-NDP coalition not one voter has ever endorsed and have it all backstopped by the separatist Bloc Quebecois who simply want to destroy the country."
Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre said the tape proves the NDP has been plotting to usurp results of the election. "The mask has been lifted off -- the separatists and the NDP have been having these backroom talks for months," he said. "Their goal is to reverse the election results and seize power. Now their scheme is exposed ... it's incumbent upon the Liberal Party to ... no longer participate in the secret discussions."
Poilievre said he doesn't know who made the tape and declined to comment on its ethical implications.
But roll back the tape to September 2004, just a little more than two months after Canadians elected a minority Liberal government. Then-opposition leader Harper appeared at a news conference with Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe -- you know, the guy who wants to destroy the country -- and NDP leader Jack Layton to announce that the three of them had conspired -- sorry, agreed -- on a list of demands that would give them a larger role in governing.
"The agreement that we are announcing today will profoundly alter the operation of the House of Commons in ways that opposition parties have been demanding for years," Harper told reporters.
The three opposition leaders also wrote to then governor-general Adrienne Clarkson urging her to "consider all of your options before exercising your constitutional authority" in the event the Martin government lost a confidence vote.
The opposition leaders said the letter was an attempt to head off any attempt by Martin to hold a snap election in the hope of coming back with a majority.
"I would not want the prime minister to think that he could simply fail in the House of Commons as a route to another general election. That's not the way our system works," Harper said.
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Monday, December 01, 2008
Sunday, March 02, 2008
It's Not A Leadership Race
Not since the ill fated Don Getty regime have the Tired Old Tories been in such a sorry state. Before Getty the Lougheed Team could do no wrong. After Getty the man of the people; King Ralph could do no wrong. The Tories would do well in the polls because of the Leader. The leaders polling numbers would often be stronger than the party's, and thus the party was buoyed by the popularity of its leader.
Now with wimpy Ed as leader the election comes down to hard fisted Realpolitiks. Despite polls saying Ed's Tired Old Tories are at 40% that is a serious crash in popularity, the direct result of Ed's mushy leadership.
The leadership debate showed that this is not a race about who will be premier, but rather which party will govern and which one is the opposition. While Taft and Stelmach vied for Premiership, Brian Mason showed himself as the leader of the Opposition.
And even then party politics and labels are not as important as the local campaigns. Because there is a lack of political process that involves us as citizens.
Liberals have called for strategic voting, and Albertans will. But it won't necessarily be for the Liberals. Sure they will gain seats, as will the NDP.
Hinman and his right wing rump party are destined for the dustbin of history, splitting the vote on the right. Hinman is fighting for his political life just to retain his own seat.
And who knows the Green Party may even have a chance, with their appeal to rural Tory voters disenchanted that Farmer Ed has become Alberta CEO and the mouthpiece for Big Oil.
Tomorrow there will be a sea change in Alberta. A record number of folks are voting in advanced polls. There are hundreds of thousands of new Albertans and consequently undecided voters. Conservative party supports will stay home in droves unsatisfied with Stelmach's regime.
All in all it looks like perhaps we will have a minority government. Or at least as close a semblance to a minority government after 76 years of the One Party State. Who will lead this new government is anybodies guess.
But it ain't about leaders or party labels. It is about issues though. And voters will decide what issues are important and vote for their issues, which leaves Stelmach's Tired Old Tories in a very weak position.
And in the final analysis this election is about who has the hard slogging political machine in each riding. Who can get out the vote. It's the closest thing to real election this province has seen since 1971.
And I would remind folks who say the opposition parties are weak, that back in 1971 the Lougheed Team that came to power had only 6 sitting MLA's.
And when all is said and done its not just about who gets to govern but who is the opposition. That is the understated part of this election. And surprise, surprise guess which party looks good for that job.
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Now with wimpy Ed as leader the election comes down to hard fisted Realpolitiks. Despite polls saying Ed's Tired Old Tories are at 40% that is a serious crash in popularity, the direct result of Ed's mushy leadership.
The leadership debate showed that this is not a race about who will be premier, but rather which party will govern and which one is the opposition. While Taft and Stelmach vied for Premiership, Brian Mason showed himself as the leader of the Opposition.
And even then party politics and labels are not as important as the local campaigns. Because there is a lack of political process that involves us as citizens.
Election forums becoming a rare event in AlbertaCBC.ca
Liberals have called for strategic voting, and Albertans will. But it won't necessarily be for the Liberals. Sure they will gain seats, as will the NDP.
Hinman and his right wing rump party are destined for the dustbin of history, splitting the vote on the right. Hinman is fighting for his political life just to retain his own seat.
Instead of venturing into Calgary, Wildrose Alliance Leader Paul Hinman campaigned in his home riding of Cardston-Taber-Warner, knocking on doors and attending a barbecue with supporters.
And who knows the Green Party may even have a chance, with their appeal to rural Tory voters disenchanted that Farmer Ed has become Alberta CEO and the mouthpiece for Big Oil.
Tomorrow there will be a sea change in Alberta. A record number of folks are voting in advanced polls. There are hundreds of thousands of new Albertans and consequently undecided voters. Conservative party supports will stay home in droves unsatisfied with Stelmach's regime.
Barely 5 per cent of the electorate could be bothered tuning in to the only leaders' debate of the campaign.
And voter turnout, which hit historic lows last time with a meagre 44-per-cent turnout, could well drop even lower on Monday.
“The turnout's going to be brutal,” says Arnie Hansen, an Onoway-area cattle rancher and oil driller who has come in to the fertilizer supplier this sunny afternoon.
“That's the way it works in Alberta. They stay home. They don't vote for someone else. They just stay home.”
All in all it looks like perhaps we will have a minority government. Or at least as close a semblance to a minority government after 76 years of the One Party State. Who will lead this new government is anybodies guess.
Polls have repeatedly projected an 11th consecutive Tory majority on Monday, but they also reveal a persistently large number of undecided voters - even this late in the campaign. Meanwhile, a surprising number of voters are calling for a change in government, are unhappy with Progressive Conservative Leader Ed Stelmach and are willing to switch their vote.
"There's definitely a lot of fluidity yet in the voter commitment," said Harold Jansen, a political scientist at the University of Lethbridge. "Voters are ready for a change. They're ready for something different, but none of the opposition parties have done a good job inspiring it."
The undecided segment has all parties - especially the Tories - in a knot.
But it ain't about leaders or party labels. It is about issues though. And voters will decide what issues are important and vote for their issues, which leaves Stelmach's Tired Old Tories in a very weak position.
And in the final analysis this election is about who has the hard slogging political machine in each riding. Who can get out the vote. It's the closest thing to real election this province has seen since 1971.
And I would remind folks who say the opposition parties are weak, that back in 1971 the Lougheed Team that came to power had only 6 sitting MLA's.
And when all is said and done its not just about who gets to govern but who is the opposition. That is the understated part of this election. And surprise, surprise guess which party looks good for that job.
During the campaign, Brian Mason's New Democrats have shown they have the policies and philosophy to provide effective and consistent opposition.
Neil Waugh, Edmonton Sun, Sunday March, 2, 2008
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Alberta Election Debate
Watching the leaders debate tonight ...Mason hits Taft with a zinger over the issue of capping greenhouse gas, the NDP brought a motion into the legislature that would cap greenhouse gases but both the Liberals and PC's voted against it. Zingo, bang, direct hit. Taft stumbles backtracks doesn't answer the question. Mason hits back and says the legislature is where laws are made not election campaigns. So Kevin why did you and the Liberals not support the NDP motion on greenhouse caps. Waiting Waiting.
The debate formate is counter productive, far to short a time for answers. CBC is doing online polling of viewers and it is not realistic at all. The whole format is counter productive.
Watching CBC, though this is a joint CBC, CTV, CPAC, Global production, it is amtuer hour.
The Media running this are acting like they have never moderated or organized an election debate before. Paul McGloughlin pundit extrodinare just said there was no defining moment, but again I would say Masons counter attack on Taft over greenhouse gases was just such a defining moment. He praised Paul Hinman of the Wild Rose Party as doing a good job. As what a discombobulated disorganized rambling babbler? Hinman did the worst job.He wandered was unprepared and never made any other point except that he was the voice of Big Oil interests in the province and the PC's weren't.
The CBC ran an online poll, which was skewed by the fact that it had all of three people responding to it.
Over all it was amateur hour, not for the leaders but the media who sponsored this whole debacle. By keeping it to short answers they failed the public in allowing for any substantial debate. They had an hour and a half, and they decided that the whole thing should be run as if it was a WWE closed ring match for two minutes a round.
If the debate was supposed to be the event that would decide this election, it failed miserably. Better to have changed channels and watched the Obama Clinton debate.
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The debate formate is counter productive, far to short a time for answers. CBC is doing online polling of viewers and it is not realistic at all. The whole format is counter productive.
Watching CBC, though this is a joint CBC, CTV, CPAC, Global production, it is amtuer hour.
The Media running this are acting like they have never moderated or organized an election debate before. Paul McGloughlin pundit extrodinare just said there was no defining moment, but again I would say Masons counter attack on Taft over greenhouse gases was just such a defining moment. He praised Paul Hinman of the Wild Rose Party as doing a good job. As what a discombobulated disorganized rambling babbler? Hinman did the worst job.He wandered was unprepared and never made any other point except that he was the voice of Big Oil interests in the province and the PC's weren't.
The CBC ran an online poll, which was skewed by the fact that it had all of three people responding to it.
Over all it was amateur hour, not for the leaders but the media who sponsored this whole debacle. By keeping it to short answers they failed the public in allowing for any substantial debate. They had an hour and a half, and they decided that the whole thing should be run as if it was a WWE closed ring match for two minutes a round.
If the debate was supposed to be the event that would decide this election, it failed miserably. Better to have changed channels and watched the Obama Clinton debate.
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Dynamic Leadership
The difference between the Tories and Tory Light...is the NDP.
It's all a question of leadership dynamics. For those that dismiss Brian Mason as Premier material well look at whose Premier now. And that guy leading the Liberals who wants to be Premier. Nope they both make look Brian look positively Premier like.
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Keith Brownsey, political science professor at Mount Royal College; "Taft has performed well," Brownsey said, although he noted the Grit leader isn't connecting on a personal level with voters. "He speaks too much like a business professor."
NDP Leader Mason is showing himself to be a more "dynamic individual,"
It's all a question of leadership dynamics. For those that dismiss Brian Mason as Premier material well look at whose Premier now. And that guy leading the Liberals who wants to be Premier. Nope they both make look Brian look positively Premier like.
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Liberals Call For Strategic Voting
Tim Vant the invisible Liberal candidate in Edmonton Strathcona has good advise to voters and fellow Liberals.
Reading on we discover that the Liberals are an environmentally friendly party; recycling old campaign strategies. Across the province they are calling for strategic voting...for them of course.
And in Edmonton Strathcona formerly held by the NDP Party leader Raj Pannu, and with a candidate whose father was the first NDP MLA, and has name recognition, well the best strategy is vote for an NDP opposition.
In fact "It Is Time" that Redmonton voted strategically; Vote NDP, for a strong opposition.
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Seeing as he doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell against the well organized NDP candidate Rachel Notley.Don't throw your vote away.
Reading on we discover that the Liberals are an environmentally friendly party; recycling old campaign strategies. Across the province they are calling for strategic voting...for them of course.
The Alberta Liberal Team is the only party with a realistic chance of taking power away from the Conservatives and bringing change after 37 years of tired Tory government. If you want change, Tim Vant needs your vote.Except the only time they actually came close to beating the PC's was way, way, way, back in 1993. Under the leadership of a charismatic political feisty former Edmonton Mayor. And back then it was against a feisty, charismatic, former mayor of Calgary. Since then the Liberals have run every election with a new leaders, except this one which has Taft being recycled as Premier material. It gives new meaning to green politics.
And in Edmonton Strathcona formerly held by the NDP Party leader Raj Pannu, and with a candidate whose father was the first NDP MLA, and has name recognition, well the best strategy is vote for an NDP opposition.
In fact "It Is Time" that Redmonton voted strategically; Vote NDP, for a strong opposition.
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Edmonton Strarthcona PC Candidate MIA
Meet another PC candidate who is internet challenged. Unlike his boss though this guy is a member of the net generation.
T. J. Keil is Ed's boy in Edmonton Strathcona.TJ to his friends. But he doesn't have much of a campaign or a hope in hell of winning . The PC's have given up on Edmonton Strathcona leaving it for the NDP to retain.
Not for signs or literature would I have known who this guy was, Nor do I find out much from his sparse web page.
For instance we find that this is on the candidates itinerary page;
And it only gets worse..... being one of those hip internet savvy politicians T.J. has his own blog....not....
Click....oops....
Instead I have to visit his Facebook page to find out anything about him. Like last year he worked on one of the campaigns for one of the unnamed, unsuccessful candidates for Ralph's job.
And that he really, really, wants to represent us in Edmonton Strathcona.
Can you say parachute candidate....
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T. J. Keil is Ed's boy in Edmonton Strathcona.TJ to his friends. But he doesn't have much of a campaign or a hope in hell of winning . The PC's have given up on Edmonton Strathcona leaving it for the NDP to retain.
Not for signs or literature would I have known who this guy was, Nor do I find out much from his sparse web page.
T.J. enjoys many different sports, traveling, and participating in journalism and broadcasting.
For instance we find that this is on the candidates itinerary page;
T.J.'s upcoming appearancesAnd then we find he has no events planned, half way through the election......
Coming soon.
This page will soon hold information about T.J.'s campaign events in the Edmonton-Strathcona area.
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Instead I have to visit his Facebook page to find out anything about him. Like last year he worked on one of the campaigns for one of the unnamed, unsuccessful candidates for Ralph's job.
T.J. was an active volunteer in the 2006 Leadership Campaign, organizing membership and campaign data and worked on the get-out-the-vote strategy.
And that he really, really, wants to represent us in Edmonton Strathcona.
Not likely TJ.
T.J. has decided, after being involved in politics for most of his teen and young adult life, to throw his hat into the political ring. “This is something I really want to do right now”, he says. “It would be an honour to represent Edmonton-Strathcona as a Member of the Legislative Assembly.”
Can you say parachute candidate....
Yep the PC's have abandoned Edmonton Strathcona to the NDP.Notley's chances grew Sunday with news that the Tories' candidate in Edmonton-Strathcona has dropped out, leaving the party scrambling to fill the slot.
Hughena Gagne, a staffer in Finance Minister Lyle Oberg's office, had been nominated. "She just didn't want to run," a senior Tory campaigner said. The party expects to replace the candidate later this week.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Sun Love In With NDP
Is subversive socialism creeping into the Sun Editorial Room. After all their new marketing slogan smacks of Bolshevism; Read Red. Red being their banner colour.
And they are saying nice things about Brian Mason and the NDP after Brian met with them yesterday.
When Mason appeared yesterday to talk to the Sun's editorial board he didn't seem to have any blood-sucking socialist fangs and wasn't wearing a red beret.
Instead, he wore a tie and jacket and patiently outlined a policy platform aimed at what ex-premier Ralph Klein dubbed severely normal Albertans.
Kerry Diotte, a transplanted Ontario libertarian, gushes again over Brian and the NDP.
There's long been an innate fear of socialism here and it has been reflected by the
poor showing by NDP candidates who run federally and provincially.
That's why it's got to be frustrating for a guy like Alberta NDP Leader Brian Mason, who's the most charismatic of the three major party leaders contesting the March 3 provincial election.
Which is why he falls into the revisionist right wing myth that Alberta fears socialism. Which is contradicted by the historical fact that Western Canadian Socialism was given birth here with the strikes of miners who belonged to the IWW in Medicine Hat and Lethbridge. Again in 1919 with the founding Convention of the One Big Union in Calgary, during the Winnipeg General Strike, organized by the Socialist Party of Canada. And later with the founding of the CCF in Calgary in the 1920's, not as some mistakenly believe in Regina.. Albertans embraced socialism even in its later distributionist right wing variant; Social Credit.
Neil Waugh gushed this week over Brian as well.
There was nothing about a Liberal-style assault on the oilsands for Our Brian, clearly a friend of the working man and woman, or at least not for now. Heck, he even wants to charge a bitumen removal "barrel tax" to force oilsands outfits to upgrade their production here.
Then today Waugh joins in with a clarion call of pending class war because of Big Oil's finger puppet Ed Stelmach. Suddenly Waugh is sounding like more like Lenin than Ayn Rand.
With only 10% of the Horizon oil sands plant at Fort McMurray still to build, the costs mysteriously soared 28% in what the company blurb called the "toughest, most labour intensive portion" of the controversial project controlled by Calgary billionaire Murray Edwards.
"Unfortunately, mid to late January and early February saw a significant deterioration of labour productivity on the site," company brass lamented.
The reason was "much colder than normal weather seriously curtailed activity."
Who knew that it sometimes hits -40 C at Fort Mac in the winter? When in doubt, blame the workers and the weather.
But it won't be CNRL shareholders picking up the extra $2 billion. Somebody messed up big time and tried to build the biggest piece of the project in brass monkey weather.
In all likelihood, Alberta taxpayers will once again bite the bullet.
Even under Stelmach's new royalty deal (a strangely forgotten part of the PC campaign), oilsands outfits still only pay pennies on the dollar until the massive plants are paid out. Then the royalty jumps to a more reasonable rate of 25% to 40%, depending on oil prices.
Energy department spokesman Jason Chance insisted that any additional costs "would have to be validated and determined whether they are appropriate. It's based on what the reality is."
The sweet deal CNRL got from the Tories for Horizon allowed the company to tear up the oilsands labour construction deal and broke the peace that ruled in the oilsands for the last quarter century. It touched off last fall's Hard Hat Flu walkouts.
This resulted in the "No Plan" Stelmach attack ads backed by the Alberta Building Trades Council.
These took a turn for the bizarre last weekend when the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees' brass, after "extensive debate," voted to kick in $300,000 to the TV spots, meaning government workers are now attacking their own work.
Meanwhile Employment Minister Iris Evans continues to sit on the probe into CNRL's all-fall-down tank farm, where two Chinese foreign temporary workers were crushed to death.
"The chickens are coming home to roost for Mr. Stelmach," Mason chuckled, calling for a "special unit" of government auditors to "validate and verify" CNRL's cost-overrun claims.
Or is Klein's political ghost now haunting Eddie's campaign bus?
Mason also met with the Liberal Edmonton Journal editorial board. And again a fair gushing ensued over the only charismatic politician in the race. Mason was the winner in the 2000 race, and the NDP has made the transition from being a decimated party in 1993 to rising from the ashes in 1997 to winning four seats in 2004. And in each of those elections the NDP was a new party with new directions and new leaders who appealed to the public.
Albertans should be grateful the competent, thoughtful, personable likes of Brian Mason is willing to fight the uphill battle, to make the case for New Democrat MLAs in the legislature at election time, and to stoke debate on issues such as health care each time the Tories introduce one of their numbered "ways" of challenging the public system.The Edmonton media seems to have given Brian and the NDP an election bouquet of good wishes on Valentines Day.Do the NDs have a place in the next legislature?
That's a decision voters -- in practice, Edmonton voters -- must decide as they balance their desire for change in government offices, their recognition that our new Edmonton-area premier already constitutes change from the Calgary-centric Klein past, and their admiration for stands of principle by people like Mason and his predecessors Raj Pannu and Pam Barrett.
But would this election be as valuable or as useful a forum of political renewal and debate without Mason's and the NDP's thoughtful perspective on issues?
It certainly would not.
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Costing Promises
Plenty of Promises, but Little Accounting
The Liberals and Progressive Conservatives are proving least accountable with public dollars when it comes to slapping price tags on their big-spending election promises, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation argued Wednesday.
The NDP proved to be most transparent with expenditure commitments. The party has attached sticker prices on two of the four applicable spending promises to date, totalling more than $2.1 billion annually, with most of that allocated to a green energy fund.
Taxpayers federation wants answers for big promisesFeb, 13 2008 - 3:50 PMEDMONTON - The Canadian Taxpayers' Federation wants to see the bottom line of all the political parties who it says are making big spending promises in Alberta's provincial election campaign.
The group says it wants cost breakdowns from all parties of what their spending announcements are going to cost taxpayers.
So far during the campaign the federation says, the Alberta Liberals have made 40 different spending announcements, but have only given a cost breakdown for one.
It says the Alberta Tories have made 15 announcements and the NDP 13. The group says the NDP has costed all but two of its promises.
Scott Hennig, a spokesman for the group, says either some of the parties aren't being straight with taxpayers about what their promises will cost, or they run the province into debt trying to fulfil them.
He says the competition to see who can spend the most would only push a provincial government closer to a deficit. Hennig says the promises made by many of the parties are so vague, it's impossible to independently figure out how much they would cost.(KH)
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Saturday, February 09, 2008
Daveberta Smears NDP
Daveberta the liberal blogger thinks he has found a scandal in the NDP calling for an end to corporate and union donations to political parties in Alberta. He reports in high dudgeon on his website that the NDP raised $100,000 from unions during the election campaign of 2004.
However the majority of funds raised during the campaign, as is usual with the NDP, came from individuals for a total of $180,529.35 slightly less than twice as much as raised from union contributions.
Something he fails to mention. Now why might that be?
Because unlike his former employer the Liberal Party of Alberta, the NDP gets the majority of its donations from individuals. And of course unlike the Liberals none from the big corporations in Alberta. So he has to pretend that union funding of the NDP is somehow scandalous.
2005
POLITICAL PARTY
CAMPAIGN RETURN
ALBERTA NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY
SUMMARY OF CAMPAIGN PERIOD REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES
FOR THE PERIOD October 25, 2004 - January 24, 2005
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CORPORATIONS
| ALBERTA BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL INC. | EDMONTON | $7,000.00 | Cash |
| CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TRADE UNIONS | |||||
| ALBERTA & NWT REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| ALBERTA & NWT REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS | EDMONTON | $2,400.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $3,400.00 | ||||
| AREA CNCL PAC STEELWORKERS TORONTO | TORONTO - ONTARIO | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| AREA COUNCIL C E P | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| C A W CANADA | $8,000.00 | Cash | |||
| C E C U | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| C E P NATIONAL | EDMONTON | $4,000.00 | Cash | ||
| C E P NATIONAL | EDMONTON | $7,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $11,000.00 | ||||
| C L C | EDMONTON | $10,000.00 | Cash | ||
| C M P L | $5,000.00 | Cash | |||
| C S U | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| C U P E | EDMONTON | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| CANADIAN COUNCIL A T U | $2,500.00 | Cash | |||
| DISTRICT # 3 U S W A | BURNABY - B.C. | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| EDMONTON FIRE FIGHTERS UNION | EDMONTON | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| EDMONTON FIRE FIGHTERS UNION | EDMONTON | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $4,000.00 | ||||
| EDMONTON LABOUR COUNCIL | EDMONTON | $750.00 | Cash | ||
| IRONWORKERS LOCAL 720 | EDMONTON | $3,000.00 | Cash | ||
| LOCAL 1118 U F C W | RED DEER | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| LOCAL 183 U N A | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| LOCAL 1900 C E P | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| LOCAL 569 ATU | EDMONTON | $3,000.00 | Cash | ||
| LOCAL 6034 U S W A | CALGARY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| LOCAL 855 C E P | HINTON | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| U T U | EDMONTON | $1,500.00 | Cash | ||
| UNITED ASSOC OF PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS - LOCAL 488 | EDMONTON | $14,000.00 | Cash | ||
| UNITED NURSES OF ALBERTA | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA PAC | TORONTO - ONTARIO | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| WORKERS UNION TELECOMMUNICATIONS | EDMONTON | $10,000.00 | Cash | ||
| WORKERS UNION TELECOMMUNICATIONS | EDMONTON | $50.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $10,050.00 | ||||
| YELLOWHEAD LABOUR COUNCIL | HINTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS | |||||
| MEDICINE HAT LABOUR COUNCIL | MEDICINE HAT | $1,500.00 | Cash |
But what daveberta does not he tell us is how much corporations donated to his former employer the Liberal Party of Alberta during the election campaign. Count all the oil companies. Which you will not find donating to the NDP. Which of course is the whole point ain't it Dave.And note the corporate donations to the Liberals far exceed the union donations to the NDP for the same election campaign.
2005
POLITICAL PARTY
CAMPAIGN RETURN
ALBERTA LIBERAL PARTY
SUMMARY OF CAMPAIGN PERIOD REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES
FOR THE PERIOD October 25, 2004 - January 24, 2005
| CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CORPORATIONS | |||||
| ALBERTA VIEWS | CALGARY | $15,000.00 | Cash | ||
| ALL WEATHER WINDOWS LTD | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| AMEC INC | OAKVILLE - ONTARIO | $2,500.00 | Cash | ||
| ATCO GROUP | CALGARY | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| BELL WEST | CALGARY | $3,000.00 | Cash | ||
| BREWSTER TRANSPORTATION AND TOURS | BANFF | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| CANADIAN NATIONAL | MONTREAL - QUEBEC | $3,000.00 | Cash | ||
| CIBC | TORONTO - ONTARIO | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| COHOS EVAMY | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| DAVID B. ROSS PROF CORP | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| DAVIS & COMPANY | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| DON WHEATON LTD | EDMONTON | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| DOW CHEMICAL CANADA INC | SARNIA - ONTARIO | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| EDCO FINANCIAL HOLDINGS LTD | CALGARY | $2,500.00 | Cash | ||
| ENBRIDGE PIPELINES INC | EDMONTON | $6,000.00 | Cash | ||
| ENCANA CORPORATION | CALGARY | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| ESPRIT EXPLORATION LTD | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| FIELD MANAGEMENT SERVICES | EDMONTON | $2,500.00 | Cash | ||
| HOLE'S GREENHOUSES AND GARDENS LTD | ST. ALBERT | $883.00 | Valued | ||
| HUSKY OIL OPERATIONS LTD | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| JAMES A. BUTLIN PROFESSIONAL CORP | CALGARY | $750.00 | Cash | ||
| KATARINA O. STERLIND | VANCOUVER - B.C. | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| LAFARGE CANADA INC. | CALGARY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| LOVINK MEDIA INC | CALGARY | $3,300.00 | Valued | ||
| MADACALO INVESTMENTS LTD | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| MANCAL PROPERTIES DEVELOPMENT INC | CALGARY | $2,500.00 | Cash | ||
| MANCAL PROPERTY VENTURES INC | CALGARY | $2,500.00 | Cash | ||
| MCDANIEL COMPANY INC. | CALGARY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| MCNALLY CUMING RAYMAKER | CALGARY | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| NEXEN INC | CALGARY | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| NOVA CHEMICALS CORPORATION | CALGARY | $3,000.00 | Cash | ||
| OCTAGON CAPITAL CORPORATION | CALGARY | $2,500.00 | Cash | ||
| P.J. PERRY | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Valued | ||
| PETROVERA RESOURCES | CALGARY | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| PHS HOLDINGS | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| PRECISION DRILLING CORPORATION | CALGARY | $2,500.00 | Cash | ||
| PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS LTD | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| RBC CAPITAL MARKETS | CALGARY | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| RBC CAPITAL MARKETS | CALGARY | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $10,000.00 | ||||
| READ JONES CHRISTOFFERSEN LTD | CALGARY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| REIMER LAW OFFICE | CALGARY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| ROCKWELL SERVICING PARTNERSHIP | CALGARY | $2,500.00 | Cash | ||
| SCOTIABANK | TORONTO - ONTARIO | $4,000.00 | Cash | ||
| SUNCOR ENERGY INC | CALGARY | $3,000.00 | Cash | ||
| TD SECURITIES INC | TORONTO - ONTARIO | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| TORONTO DOMINION BANK | TORONTO - ONTARIO | $1,600.00 | Cash | ||
| TRANSALTA UTILITIES CORPORATION | CALGARY | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| TRANSCANADA PIPE LINES | CALGARY | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| WESTERN FINANCIAL GROUP INC | HIGH RIVER | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY LIMITED | VANCOUVER - B.C. | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| WILL CALL OILFIELD SERVICES LTD | SPRUCE GROVE | $500.00 | Cash |
| Total: 99 Receipts | $206,496.74 |
| Total Campaign Period Revenue $241,438.34 |
Corporate donations to the Liberals were twice as much as union donations to the NDP for the election campaign in 2004! Something dave forgot to mention.
During that campaign individual donations to the Alberta Liberals totaled $34,941.6 Ouch. Not even close to the individual donations the NDP raised, and this is the real reason for daveberta's faux outrage.
His party and former employer, relies heavily on corporate funding for their election campaigns. Unlike the NDP. And so his attempt to do a bit of political slight of hand, look over there NDP gets union donations. The reality is that if the NDP policy of no corporate or union donations was the law, it would hurt the Liberals more than the NDP. And it is a policy the NDP has adopted as provincial governments across Canada.
Daveberta was outraged that Ray Martin wrote a letter last fall soliciting funding from unions for this pending election campaign. However what he does not tell his readers is that the Liberals on an annual basis raise more funds from unions than the NDP does.
Here is the 2004 corporate donations the Liberals received, during their regular operational year. And lo and behold you will find unions donating to them. Including the Building Trades Council Inc. who donated more to the Liberals than they did to the NDP. And AUPE the provincial government union which did not donate at all to the NDP. And even personal donations from the Alberta Teachers Association president Frank Bruseker who was once a Liberal MLA.
| BRUSEKER, FRANK | AIRDRIE | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| BRUSEKER, FRANK | AIRDRIE | $100.00 | Cash | ||
| BRUSEKER, FRANK | AIRDRIE | $20.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $620.00 |
Total donations from unions to the Liberals for the operating year 2004 was $47,675, while total union donations to the NDP was $14,000. So sorry no the NDP are not being hypocrites, they are calling for legislation that daveberta and his Liberal pals fear because it would limit their corporate fund raising including from their pals in the union movement. If any party benefits from union donations more than the NDP it's the Liberals. Because they lack the NDP's financial support which is based on individual contributions.
Mind you the NDP benefits from more unions donating to it, while the Liberals rely on their pals in the Building Trades, ATA, and AUPE to support them. These are unions and associations aligned politically to the Liberals as their donations show.
2004
POLITICAL PARTY
ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT
ALBERTA LIBERAL PARTY
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CORPORATIONS | |||||
| AINSWORTH LUMBER CO LTD | GRANDE PRAIRIE | $3,000.00 | Cash | ||
| ALBERTA BLUE CROSS | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| ALBERTA BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL INC. | EDMONTON | $2,200.00 | Cash | ||
| ALBERTA BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL INC. | EDMONTON | $12,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $14,200.00 | ||||
| ALBERTA FOREST PRODUCTS ASSOC INC | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| ALBERTA MOTOR ASSOCIATION | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| ALBERTA ROADBUILDERS & HEAVY CONST. | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| ALBERTA VIEWS | CALGARY | $15,000.00 | Cash | ||
| ALLIANCE PIPELINE LIMITED | CALGARY | $875.00 | Cash | ||
| ALTAGAS SERVICES INC | CALGARY | $525.00 | Cash | ||
| AON REED STENHOUSE INC | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| APEGGA | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| ARTTEC ADVERTISING INC | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| ASSOCIATED ENGINEERING ALBERTA LTD | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| BOMBAY PALACE RESTAURANT | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| BREWSTER TRANSPORTATION AND TOURS | BANFF | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| BURLINGTON RESOURCES CANADA LTD | CALGARY | $1,200.00 | Cash | ||
| CANACCORD CAPITAL CORPORATION | VANCOUVER - B.C. | $1,750.00 | Cash | ||
| CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF OILWELL DRI | CALGARY | $1,100.00 | Cash | ||
| CANADIAN ENERGY PIPELINE ASSOCIATION | CALGARY | $875.00 | Cash | ||
| CANADIAN NATURAL RESOURCES LTD | CALGARY | $1,100.00 | Cash | ||
| CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY | CALGARY | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| CANADIAN SALT COMPANY LIMITED | POINTE CLAIRE - QUEBEC | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| CAPITAL PACKERS INC | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| CAPITAL PACKERS INC | EDMONTON | $100.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $600.00 | ||||
| CARLYLE & ASSOCIATES | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| CARMA DEVELOPERS LTD. | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| CARMA DEVELOPERS LTD. | CALGARY | $200.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $750.00 | ||||
| COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS | EDMONTON | $275.00 | Cash | ||
| COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS | EDMONTON | $525.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $800.00 | ||||
| CORIL HOLDINGS LTD | CALGARY | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| DOUGLAS A. LYNASS PROF CORP | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| DOUGLAS A. LYNASS PROF CORP | EDMONTON | $350.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $900.00 | ||||
| DRAGICH DESIGN | EDMONTON | $850.00 | Valued | ||
| DYNACARE KASPER MEDICAL LABORATORIES | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| ENBRIDGE PIPELINES INC | EDMONTON | $2,200.00 | Cash | ||
| ENBRIDGE PIPELINES INC | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $3,200.00 | ||||
| ENER-WEST PROJECTS LTD | CALGARY | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| FIELD ATKINSON PERRATON MANAGEMENT | EDMONTON | $2,200.00 | Cash | ||
| FIRSTENERGY CAPITAL CORP | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| FWD STEP RESOURCES | CALGARY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| FWD STEP RESOURCES | CALGARY | $25.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $525.00 | ||||
| GENERAL ELECTRIC CANADA INC | MISSISSAUGA - ONTARIO | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| GRAHAM GROUP LTD | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| HAMILTON HALL SOYES/RAY & BERNDTSON INC | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| HEMISPHERE ENGINEERING INC. | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| HOLE'S GREENHOUSES AND GARDENS LTD | ST. ALBERT | $836.74 | Cash | ||
| HOLE'S GREENHOUSES AND GARDENS LTD | ST. ALBERT | $50.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $886.74 | ||||
| HUSKY OIL OPERATIONS LTD | CALGARY | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| IMPERIAL OIL LIMITED | CALGARY | $3,500.00 | Cash | ||
| IMPERIAL OIL RESOURCES LTD | CALGARY | $3,500.00 | Cash | ||
| INLAND LEHIGH CEMENT LIMITED | EDMONTON | $2,200.00 | Cash | ||
| INLAND LEHIGH CEMENT LIMITED | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| INLAND LEHIGH CEMENT LIMITED | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $3,700.00 | ||||
| J.E. (BUD) MILLER CONSULTING LTD | KITSCOTY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| JAMES A. BUTLIN PROFESSIONAL CORP | CALGARY | $275.00 | Cash | ||
| JAMES A. BUTLIN PROFESSIONAL CORP | CALGARY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $775.00 | ||||
| K P ACCOUNTING & TAX SERVICES | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| K P M G | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| LOCAL #8 SHEETMETAL BENEVOLENT FUN | EDMONTON | $750.00 | Cash | ||
| LUSCAR LTD | EDMONTON | $3,000.00 | Cash | ||
| LUTHRA LAW OFFICE | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| MANSELL PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSULTING SE | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| MCDANIEL & ASSOCIATES CONSULTANTS LTD | CALGARY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| MCNALLY VALUATIONS INC | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| MCNALLY VALUATIONS INC | EDMONTON | $350.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $900.00 | ||||
| NEXEN INC | CALGARY | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| NEXEN INC | CALGARY | $2,200.00 | Cash | ||
| NEXEN INC | CALGARY | $12,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $14,750.00 | ||||
| NICHOLAS PERELES PROF CORP | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| NICHOLAS PERELES PROF CORP | CALGARY | $350.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $1,350.00 | ||||
| NORTHLANDS PARK | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| PARKER FORD & MACKAY SPECIALTY OPT | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| PAUL ZIFF & CO NATURAL GAS CONSULT | CALGARY | $275.00 | Cash | ||
| PAUL ZIFF & CO NATURAL GAS CONSULT | CALGARY | $250.00 | Cash | ||
| PAUL ZIFF & CO NATURAL GAS CONSULT | CALGARY | $250.00 | Cash | ||
| PAUL ZIFF & CO NATURAL GAS CONSULT | CALGARY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $1,275.00 | ||||
| PCL CONSTRUCTION GROUP INC | EDMONTON | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| PETERS & CO. LIMITED | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| PIPELLA AND COMPANY BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS | CALGARY | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| PIPELLA AND COMPANY BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS | CALGARY | $350.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $900.00 | ||||
| QUALICO DEVELOPMENTS WEST LTD | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | EDMONTON | $1,100.00 | Cash | ||
| ROYAL BANK OF CANADA | EDMONTON | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $3,100.00 | ||||
| SCHUMACHER & ASSOCIATES | WETASKIWIN | $825.00 | Cash | ||
| SCOTIABANK | TORONTO - ONTARIO | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| SECURITY LIFE AND INVESTMENT | CALGARY | $400.00 | Cash | ||
| SHAW COMMUNICATIONS INC | CALGARY | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| SHELLY'S ENTERPRISE LTD | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| SUNCOR ENERGY INC | CALGARY | $6,500.00 | Cash | ||
| T. BOWEN & A. ROBERTS PROF CORP | CALGARY | $275.00 | Cash | ||
| T. BOWEN & A. ROBERTS PROF CORP | CALGARY | $175.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $450.00 | ||||
| TALISMAN ENERGY INC | CALGARY | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| TALISMAN ENERGY INC | CALGARY | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| TALISMAN ENERGY INC | CALGARY | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $6,550.00 | ||||
| TAURUS INVESTMENTS LTD | EDMONTON | $825.00 | Cash | ||
| TAURUS INVESTMENTS LTD | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $1,825.00 | ||||
| TECHNA-WEST ENGINEERING LTD | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| TELUS | EDMONTON | $2,200.00 | Cash | ||
| TELUS | EDMONTON | $2,200.00 | Cash | ||
| TELUS | EDMONTON | $700.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $5,100.00 | ||||
| TERASEN PIPELINES INC | CALGARY | $1,225.00 | Cash | ||
| THE COHOS EVAMY | CALGARY | $275.00 | Cash | ||
| THE COHOS EVAMY | CALGARY | $275.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $550.00 | ||||
| THE TORONTO DOMINION BANK | EDMONTON | $2,200.00 | Cash | ||
| THURBER ENGINEERING LTD | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| TRARION RESOURCES LTD | STONY PLAIN | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| VINTERRA PROPERTIES INC | EDMONTON | $1,100.00 | Cash | ||
| VINTERRA PROPERTIES INC | EDMONTON | $50.00 | Cash | ||
| VINTERRA PROPERTIES INC | EDMONTON | $750.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $1,900.00 | ||||
| WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY LTD | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| WILL CALL OILFIELD SERVICES LTD | SPRUCE GROVE | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| WILLIAM E. SEVICK PROFESSIONAL CORP | EDMONTON | $550.00 | Cash | ||
| WILLIAM E. SEVICK PROFESSIONAL CORP | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $1,050.00 | ||||
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TRADE UNIONS | |||||
| ALBERT & NWT REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS AND ALLIED WORKERS | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| ALBERT & NWT REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS AND ALLIED WORKERS | EDMONTON | $275.00 | Cash | ||
| ALBERT & NWT REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS AND ALLIED WORKERS | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $2,275.00 | ||||
| AUPE LOCAL 50 | EDMONTON | $2,000.00 | Cash | ||
| AUPE LOCAL 9 | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| AUPE LOCAL 9 | EDMONTON | $200.00 | Cash | ||
| AUPE LOCAL 9 | EDMONTON | $10,500.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $11,200.00 | ||||
| INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF BOILERMAKERS IRON SHIP BUILERS | EDMONTON | $15,000.00 | Cash | ||
| INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMST | CALGARY | $500.00 | Cash | ||
| INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING EN | EDMONTON | $3,000.00 | Cash | ||
| INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING EN | EDMONTON | $750.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $3,750.00 |
2004
POLITICAL PARTY
ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT
ALBERTA NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY
| CONTRIBUTIONS FROM CORPORATIONS | |||||
| 629075 ALBERTA LTD | EDMONTON | $400.00 | Cash | ||
| ALBERTA BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL INC. | EDMONTON | $4,000.00 | Cash | ||
| ALL WRIGHT INFOTECH | EDMONTON | $600.00 | Valued | ||
| LYLE S R KANEE PROF CORP | EDMONTON | $420.00 | Cash | ||
| P GILL CNC INDUSTRIES LTD | EDMONTON | $500.00 | Cash | ||
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TRADE UNIONS | |||||
| AREA COUNCIL C E P | EDMONTON | $4,000.00 | Cash | ||
| C E P NATIONAL | EDMONTON | $1,000.00 | Cash | ||
| C E P NATIONAL | EDMONTON | $5,000.00 | Cash | ||
| C E P NATIONAL | EDMONTON | $4,000.00 | Cash | ||
| Subtotal: | $10,000.00 |
So nice try dave, guess all those blogging awards and the ensuing publicity you get now as a political blogger have gone to your head. Next time you try a drive by smear full of righteous indignation get your facts straight. And before making allegations about union influence over political parties look in your own back yard.
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