Corporations gave $5.2 million to the BC Liberals and $133,327 to the NDP in 2014. Meanwhile, trade unions gave $385,021 to the NDP and $6,804 to the Liberals.
Some of the top donors to the BC Liberals included Teck Resources Limited ($140,000), Teck Highland Valley Copper Corp. ($100,000), Shape Properties Corp. ($100,000), Encana Corporation ($106,000), Dayhu Capital Ltd. ($60,000) and Merab Holdings Inc. ($50,000).
Individuals giving donations of $50,000 each included Yu Wen, Peter Redekop, Rosy Yanjing Shang, Hong Wang and David Sidoo. Shi Yu Liu, Shu Min Wu, Ruoxiong Wang and Guifang Zhu each gave around $30,000.
Lobbyist Patrick Kinsella gave $34,000, of which $300 was a personal donation and the rest was through his companies Progressive Strategies Ltd. and Progressive Holdings Ltd. Mark Jiles gave $20,770, most of it through Bluestar Consulting Inc.
David Radler, who was convicted of fraud and spent 10 months in jail in 2008, gave the Liberals $21,250 personally and $50,000 as an officer for the Canadian Classified Network.
Francesco Aquilini, Aquilini Investment Group LP and Aquilini Development and Construction Inc. gave a combined total of $53,650.
Your beloved BC No Development Party(NDP) actually raised more cash than the BC Grits.
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The NDP raised 9.3 million for the election, compared to the 8.3 million raised by the incumbent Liberals, who went on to secure a fourth straight majority government on May 14.
http://globalnews.ca/news/790499/who-donated-to-the-ndp-and-liberals-last-election-find-out-with-our-interactive-charts/
Fuck the No Development Party(NDP). They raised huge amounts of cash running on a no science, no to every industrial project that would help all Canadians. Sour grapes because they lost the election.
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The NDP raised 9.3 million for the election, compared to the 8.3 million raised by the incumbent Liberals, who went on to secure a fourth straight majority government on May 14.
http://globalnews.ca/news/790499/who-donated-to-the-ndp-and-liberals-last-election-find-out-with-our-interactive-charts/
Shen Li - the figures I cited are for the year 2014... a year after the election. Individual donations for the NDP had a big drop in 2014,
probably because supporters were pissed off the party did not win the 2013 election....which most polls predicted.
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The NDP raised 9.3 million for the election, compared to the 8.3 million raised by the incumbent Liberals, who went on to secure a fourth straight majority government on May 14.
http://globalnews.ca/news/790499/who-donated-to-the-ndp-and-liberals-last-election-find-out-with-our-interactive-charts/
Shen Li - the figures I cited are for the year 2014... a year after the election. Individual donations for the NDP had a big drop in 2014,
probably because supporters were pissed off the party did not win the 2013 election....which most polls predicted.
True, money follows a winner. If they surge in the polls before the next election the No Development Party will be back like pigs at the money trough.