....and never forget that some genius (on Ottawa City Council I believe?) suggested that the collected money be disbursed into Ottawa's coffers. #Entitlement
Donna, if you find the time , could you refesh the memories all of your readers with a brief encapsulation of the Mark Norman story. The parrallels of losing to a crowd-funded base was etched in the skulls of Mr Trudeau and his cronnies there. There they learned the lesson that to win they needed to halt the flow of money, to the freeze all funds in order to deny a possible defense.
Keep to that struggle. We really appreciate that you are doing that hard work and it is the necessary research you say is required that allows us to trust your work. Thanks again
Also keep in mind that the first $400 per year you donate to a Political Party gets you a 75% tax credit, in other words a $400 donation to the LPC only cost you $100. A donation to the truckers cost you the full amount. So the $15.7 million really is 15.7 while the Liberals $7.6 million probably means real donations of somewhere between $1.9 million (if it is all at that 75% credit rate) and say $4 million (some would be at lower credit rates), with the Canadian Tax Payers picking up the balance.
Good point. In a system designed to encourage political donations (an uneven playing field), financial support for the Liberal Party looks anemic by comparison.
....and never forget that some genius (on Ottawa City Council I believe?) suggested that the collected money be disbursed into Ottawa's coffers. #Entitlement
Donna, if you find the time , could you refesh the memories all of your readers with a brief encapsulation of the Mark Norman story. The parrallels of losing to a crowd-funded base was etched in the skulls of Mr Trudeau and his cronnies there. There they learned the lesson that to win they needed to halt the flow of money, to the freeze all funds in order to deny a possible defense.
Sorry, Garret. I don't know anything about the Mark Norman story, and don't feel I have the time to research it properly.
When you're writing a book you need to stay pretty narrowly focussed. This is a constant, real, everyday struggle :-)
Keep to that struggle. We really appreciate that you are doing that hard work and it is the necessary research you say is required that allows us to trust your work. Thanks again
Also keep in mind that the first $400 per year you donate to a Political Party gets you a 75% tax credit, in other words a $400 donation to the LPC only cost you $100. A donation to the truckers cost you the full amount. So the $15.7 million really is 15.7 while the Liberals $7.6 million probably means real donations of somewhere between $1.9 million (if it is all at that 75% credit rate) and say $4 million (some would be at lower credit rates), with the Canadian Tax Payers picking up the balance.
Good point. In a system designed to encourage political donations (an uneven playing field), financial support for the Liberal Party looks anemic by comparison.