{"id":4074,"date":"2013-08-19T13:34:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2013-08-19T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T17:34:46","slug":"political-financing-bill-needs-to-be-strengthened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/political-financing-bill-needs-to-be-strengthened\/","title":{"rendered":"(English) Political financing bill needs to be strengthened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re: \u201cPolitical loans bill \u2018basically dead,\u2019 says NDP MP Scott\u201d (<em>The Hill Times<\/em>, Aug. 12). I would like to see the new mega-bill introduce into law all of Democracy Watch\u2019s recommendations from their \u201cMoney in Politics Campaign,\u201d including: disclose all donations and loans a week before election day, limit and disclose donations in nomination and party leadership races, impose spending limits in party leadership races, limit and disclose paid volunteer labour provided by organizations, disclose the identity of each individual donor\u2019s employer (as in the U.S.) and direct organizational affiliations, and increase the penalty for breaking these laws to include jail time. I also think that these recommendations, as well as the current federal political financing and lobbying laws, must apply to provinces as well. Corporations, unions, and groups representing their interests should not be allowed to donate to any kind of political campaign anywhere in Canada, nor should they be allowed to lobby in secret. Democracies die behind closed doors.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re: \u201cPolitical loans bill \u2018basically dead,\u2019 says NDP MP Scott\u201d (The Hill Times, Aug. 12). I would like to see the new mega-bill introduce into law all of Democracy Watch\u2019s recommendations from their \u201cMoney in Politics Campaign,\u201d including: disclose all donations and loans a week before election day, limit and disclose donations in nomination and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracywatch.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}