$56M in; $15B out. That's Some Pretty Nice Coin!

[OldIslander]

From David Ball's article in Toronto Metro:

A British Columbia watchdog has published an e-book identifying a group of top industry donors to the B.C. Liberals who donated $56 million to the party over 12 years — and raked in many times that in contracts, at least $15 billion of taxpayers’ money.

http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/ ... racts.html

This publication looks like a Green site, so take that into consideration. But still an interesting piece -- I'll bet we're going to hear more about this.

[maryjane48]

like i said clear choice

bclibs = bribes an corruption


the ndp are commited to all of bc not just already rich companies

[flamingfingers]

From the link posted above:

Pork barreling is in essence what the government can do for donors to its political party,” he told Metro in a phone interview. “A whole bunch of industries gave exceptional donations to the B.C. Liberals, and got exceptional returns.
“It’s become very clear — when you start looking at all the sweetheart deals, the tally of supplier payments and infrastructure projects — that this is beyond coincidence; this is pork barreling. It’s the government taking care of its friends.”

[BeingHuman]

The BC Liberal Government has setup a system of "legalized bribery" in this province!

"Coming just days after a Forum Research poll found that seven-in-ten British Columbians want to ban corporate and union donations, the allegations add fuel to longstanding criticism of what Democracy Watch co-founder Duff Conacher told Metro “amounts to a system of legalized bribery” in a province that’s “one of the worst, one of the most undemocratic and unethical political donation systems of anywhere in Canada.”

http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/ ... probe.html

[hobbyguy]

Be happy. Your beloved NDP did the exact same things, only for projects that had no end value.

[maryjane48]

hardly . must be nice to live in a bclib aka harper con fantasy land