The single biggest political donation, bar none in 2010 did not come from any private sector business.
It came from the United Steelworkers of America (Toronto, On).
$20,000.
That’s from the most recent figures released by the chief electoral office for the province. They gave the same amount in 2009 while in 2008, the United Food and Commercial Workers, of Washington DC gave the provincial NDP $10,000.
If you barred corporate and union donations to political parties in Newfoundland and labrador and forced the parties to raise money from individuals, the entire political party system would collapse.
At least then we could rebuild it an an infinitely more democratic basis than the one that sits there today.
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