Follow the money .... which companies/organizations donate to political parties.

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A good article to read to put you back in the mood to sleep.... 3rd parties seem to be the tactic of choice lately, no oversight, no accountability and complete separation from the party if lies are exposed... some of the worst I have seen are nothing but attacking firearm owners, the Conservatives and more fear monger and lies than fact by far are LeadNow and North99 (post any actual facts and you are banned fast, I was) but I am sure we will see Working Families and some of the others ramping up how great Wynne or the NDP are soon.


Do unions run Ontario? Find out the top donors in provincial politics

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/...ncial-politics

Didn't read much in the other provinces, already getting sleepy again ...
some of the Ontario comments say alot

The United Steelworkers, the largest private-sector union in North America, made 1,033 donations, all to the New Democratic Party (except for a $250 donation from Local 1005 in Hamilton to the Communist Party of Ontario).... In addition to donations made directly to the NDP, the steelworkers regularly spend money as a registered third party. In the 2015 Sudbury byelection, the union spent $24,000 on ads

United Association
"although they put $100,000 towards Working Families, a third-party union group that has run ads attacking the PCs in every election since 2003."

. Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation: $908,011.27
The union that represents public high school teachers made 170 donations, giving $559,671.27 to the NDP, $326,273 to the Liberals, $21,760 to the Progressive Conservatives and $307 to the Greens. It also gave Andrea Horwath $14,800 in the 2009 NDP leadership race. About one-third of these donations were made from head office, with the rest coming from district associations. The union’s direct political contributions measure only a fraction of its real impact however: it also spent $1.8 million on various third parties over the past three elections — $1.1 million under its own name, and $700,000 through the two union umbrella groups, Working Families and Project Ontario.


Elementary Teacher’s Federation of Ontario: $601,843.77
The union representing public elementary school teachers made 134 donations, giving $492,028.77 to the NDP and $109,815 to the Liberals. In the 2009 NDP leadership race, the union gave the most money, $1,452, to winner Andrea Horwath. In addition to direct political donations, it spent $4.3 million on third-party election advertising over the past three elections.


Canadian Union of Public Employees: $571,473.60
The Canadian Union of Public Employees made 140 donations, giving $518,927.30 to the New Democratic Party and $52,546.30 to the Liberals.




Yep, it seems like the Unions in Ontario have little regard for financial austerity and budgets .. and contempt for honest government given who is in there now. .the socialist (with a touch of communist) big government funded into power with union pockets and funded from the gov't once in power makes a nice little circle..

Ontario taxpayers gave $163M to Liberal Party's biggest corporate donor
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...ions-1.3558156


Fundraising
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...nors-1.3540674

Ontario’s premier insists she has the fix for Canada’s largest economy—more government
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/how-...ing-backwards/


B.C. Liberal corporate backers sure win a lot of public contracts
http://theprovince.com/opinion/dermo...blic-contracts