EDMONTON — Despite controversy over a $430,000 “bulk donation” to her party by a billionaire NHL team owner and his associates, Premier Alison Redford says there’s no need to amend Alberta’s election laws to ban corporate donations or to reduce the amount that can be contributed.

OTTAWA — Canada’s public sector integrity commissioner said he suspects “thousands” of wrongdoings are going unreported among the 375,000 federal workers covered by the whistleblower legislation he enforces.

A representative of a coalition of construction companies and anti-union contractors lobbied Premier Alison Redford by linking large political donations to Redford and to the provincial Conservative party with political promises to revise Alberta’s labour code, according to documents obtained through Freedom of Information.

This week, Mr. Uppal announced he is delaying the tabling of a bill to reform the Election Act because he wants to incorporate changes recommended by Marc Mayrand, the Chief Electoral Officer. “We will take the time necessary to get the legislation right,” the minister said in a statement.