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Alberta passes bill banning political donations from corporations and unions
The flagship first bill of Alberta’s new NDP government that bans corporate and union donations to political parties has passed in the legislature. Opponents, however, say much work remains to be done to close the loopholes. Bill 1, An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, passed unanimously in third reading late Monday night, and when signed into law will ban donations retroactively to June 15. “It puts the power back in the hands of Alberta citizens rather than those with the deepest pockets in terms of determining the political future of this province,” Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley said Tuesday.
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Now, if only everyone else did this. If not, things like the Brexit and Donald Trump will continue happening.
Wait a minute, let me grab some popcorn.
Quebec has, over the course of the last decade or so, lowered the maximum allowed individual political donation (corporations and unions are already banned from donating) from a few thousands to 100$ per year. This, among other things (including the creation of a specialized police force to investigate and persecute fraud and corruption in politics), has brought light on a lot of corruption that is being slowly but certainly taken care of. I'm not delusional, there will always be some kind of corruption in any political system, whatever it is. But this has brought a lot of attention on the corruption in the province of Quebec and ill informed people thought it was because there was more corruption in Quebec, while the truth is simply that Quebec has chosen to fight it more.
But now, we will start to see some of the corruption that was legal (but still immoral) until now in Alberta, where many of those finger pointers are from. The next years will be funny.