Good on the Toronto Star for bringing this up, I feel ashamed to say that I follow politics on all levels here in Canada and didn’t know about this.
Long-term care is big business. Money politics is also big business in this province — a place where time is money, and a minister’s time is worth a lot of money.
That’s how it still works in Ontario, the Central Canadian province that remains the Wild West of fundraising in this country.
The Hoskins event is a reminder that without any rules to ban corporate and union contributions, all three parties keep cashing in on the desire of powerful interests to influence the party in power. In between elections, the governing party profits most; but just ahead of elections, when companies and unions hedge their bets, the opposition parties also get their take.
Source: The Star
This is definitely a problem and you can bet I’m going to write (an actual letter) my MPP to relay my displeasure at that! Money and politics do not mix and this is how business and the rich buy the government, please do your part and get involved as well because it’s important to get whoever governs the province to ban contributions from unions and corporations!
