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Liberal Loophole Will Let Dark Money Fund Election Ads, Critic Warns (www.readthemaple.com)

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[-] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

There it is, just a decade behind the US. I forget the bill name, but the one that enabled Super PAC's to exist did essentially the same thing and is largely to blame for the massive spike in corporate capture of their gov't.

Carney knows exactly what he's doing, consolidating the political power of the wealthy.

I was forgiving of the floor crossers, but remaining to support the kinds of undemocratic things happening kinda makes me wonder about their motives.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

There was also Citizens United.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 21 points 2 days ago

I suppose this “loophole” was intentional.

(Disclaimer: the previous statement was made based on nothing but cynicism and decades of reading the news.)

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago

It always is. Lawyers write laws, often lobbying groups submitting what they want legislators to introduce as is... and they are extremely pedantic. Loopholes are 100% intentional.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's pretty hard to write a law without loopholes. Like, you can't even write computer code that well and laws are a whole lot less precise.

The courts of appeal (including the Supreme Court) are kept busy mostly by all the weird edge cases that inevitably crop up.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago

I guess it's now the Liberals turn to make the last grasp for total power. Sure hope we make a crazy pivot to the NDP. Or we can smash the state, but honestly, we better do something.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 day ago

This is so so far from a coup.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

They're in office. Hard to overthrow the government when you are the government. They're aiming for more and total power.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 day ago

Yup, the PMO is the whole government. /s

I'm not even sure if you believe this, or if it's just venting. Certainly, if you were around for the Harper years you've seen worse.

[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Sure hope we make a crazy pivot to the NDP.

Sorry, best we can do is get so angry at the Liberals for acting like Conservatives that we elect actual Conservatives. Trudeau really should followed through on electoral reform.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I wonder who'd be in power.

IIRC PR actually favours the Conservatives, because there's so many of their voters stacked up in the same place in the prairies. Then again, we're talking about several years of butterflies and political re-alignment.

[-] Peanutbjelly@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Wish more people knew how smaller parties were running on voter reform, so liberals made that their stance until Trudeau won and immediately was like "Voter reform? We didn't mean to say something THAT crazy."

Reminder how the democrats down south have captured all of the energy as the only possible alternative to republicans, while also directly assisting the republicans in the most absurd destruction and corruption of their country.

It's not too late for Canada, but things would be much less gloomy if we had gotten some fucking voter reform.

[-] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Technical recession 🥳 only one in the G7. Elbows are flailing left and right.

[-] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Canada is the only G7 country being honest right now.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

Pay attention when they're telling you how Canadian democracy works. It's historically worked this way. Money has played a big role and it's only lessened when there's been organized pushback. Capital has interest to do the opposite, and so it does. Unfortunately this also means we may have to spend more of our wages to push back. The ones who can afford it should take note.