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Put the Tory Transit Calculator on your site!

Attention Blogging Tories! The Conservative Party of Canada has released their transit plan which includes tax relief for users of public transit. The party has created a transit calculator, which I’ve modified below for integration into Blogging Tories member blogs (or for anyone else that’s interested). If you’d like to put the transit calculator in the sidebar (or anywhere else) on your website, please copy and paste the full code below. Please leave the entire code intact as we’d like to encourage others to put this calculator on their sites.

Update: Ok, we’re corporate whores too (albeit less so), but check out the NDP!

Looks like I jumped the gun a little on displaying Mike Brock’s infographic as the truth, but in his defence, it was a result more of poor methodology than deceit. Mike took the numbers from 2003 and 2004 and put them together. The Conservative Party didn’t largely exist until 2004 and thus Mike should have added up the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative numbers. I’ve done that below. Further, bill C-24 limited individual and corporate contributions for 2004. So, I’ve done the numbers for 2003 and I’ve presented them below.

After my own research, these are the numbers that I came up with:

Liberal Party of Canada top donors.

$2,974,341.20 55555 Inc. (Paul Martin Leadership Fund)
$172,781.14 Canadian National Rail Company (Corporation)
$148,257.17 Bombardier (Corporation)
$135,889.00 Grant Forest Products (Corporation)
$111,750.50 Bell Canada (Corporation) (Including BCE and Bell Globemedia)
$106,055.65 Kruger Inc. (Corporation)
$105,892.00 EnCana Corporation (Corporation)
$104,726.70 SNC-Lavalin (Corporation)
$100,000.00 Donald Meehan (Individual)
$95,000.00 Power Corporation (Corporation)

Conservative Party of Canada top donors:

$91,703.9 Scotiabank (Corporation)
$70,976.64 Magna International (Corporation)
$45,000 Power Corporation (Corporation)
$41,015.34 Bank of Montreal (Corporation)
$59,655.79 Bell Canada (including BCE and Bell Globemedia) (Corporation)
$35,404.10 Telus Corporation (Corporation)
$28,359.02 McCarthy Tétrault (Corporation)
$25,000 CanWest Global Communications Corporation (Corporation)
$22,820.00 Canadian Alliance Lethbridge Constituency Association (Non-profit organization)
$20,000.00 George Weston (Individual)

and… holy crap, check out the NDP…

New Democratic Party top donors:

$909,775.00 CEP (Trade Union)
$775,919.60 UFCW Canada (Trade Union)
$823,289.60 CAW (Trade Union)
$374,789.68 CUPE (Trade Union)
$791,064.34 USWA (Trade Union)
$252,619.60 OPSEU (Trade Union)
$219,440.00 Canadian Labour Congress (Trade Union)
$205,900.00 IAM & AW (Trade Union)
$159,850.00 SEIU (Trade Union)
$105,246.40 Ontario Eng Catholic Teacher’s Association (Trade Union)

So, whenever somebody tells you that the Conservatives are influenced too much by “Big Business”, show them that the Liberals receive significantly more in cold cash contributions from corporations. Also, look at the NDP numbers. “Big Unions” have a significantly greater political influence on the NDP than “Big Business” ever had on the Liberals or Conservatives. A substantial problem is that as a union member, one doesn’t have much control over which political party to which their union dues are donated. As a corporate shareholder, however, one can always sell their shares.

Sheila appeals…

She’s not done yet folks. Sheila Copps just announced that she will appeal her nomination loss in the riding of Hamilton East-Stoney Creek. She’s taking her case right to the RCMP with sworn statements from her supporters who suspected “dirty tricks”. Her mother, the Liberal riding president and Warren Kinsella are among those who claim that they were turned away from the nomination meeting.

Now, as an observer from the outside and particularly as a Conservative Party observer, I must say that Sheila’s bold last-ditch move against Paul Martin is refreshing. When the Conservative Party was going through the pains of formation, the Liberals were laughing smugly as a small minority of members wondered if they’d stay or go. This week, as I’ve said, has proven to be a dirty internal war within the Liberal Party and it appears that Sheila is about to become a bigger headache for those Liberal MPs seeking re-election. A party in turmoil is not fit to govern and Canadians are starting to realize that, as Conservatives, we’re ready to form the next government.

We have already learned that the Liberal government is not in order. Now we’re starting to see that the Liberal house is not in order.