The Big Pretzel In The Globe And (No Longer Empire) Mail's Logic.

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The Globe has some advice for the current premier of British Columbia:

...The NDP and Greens are promising to ban corporate and union donations, cap individual donations – ideally, Quebec’s $100 per person limit should be the model – and review the entire system of electoral finance. It’s about time.

If Ms. Clark is wise, she will embrace campaign finance reform in her throne speech. Get ahead of public opinion, or, in this case, just catch up with it...


Weirdly, however, that very advice came immediately after the following paragraph:

...Ms. Clark and her party should have followed the lead of the federal government and other provinces, and banned union and corporate donations, while capping the maximum individual donation. They did not because, however bad it looked and however cynical it made voters, it allowed the party to be so much better funded than its rivals. For example, the B.C. Liberals raised nearly $1-million in the three days after the May 9 election. Several donors wrote cheques for $25,000 or more – amounts way too large to be legal federally or in many provinces...


Hmmmm....

Do you see what the finest of the fine fine folks at the Globe and Mail washed away there?

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Of course, it won't be long before the Ledgie Boys and the Inspector start blaming the new and improved, not to mention massive, Crony Party Party war chest on John Horgan and Andrew Weaver.

As for Ron Obvious?

Well...

We await his 'source-driven' whacking of the coalition's true colours and/or motives with bated breath.

Or some such thing.

OK?


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