NDP fails to sway B.C. Liberals on banning corporate and union donations
VICTORIA — The NDP in British Columbia won’t get support from the Liberals to ban corporate and union donations to the province’s political parties.
New Democrat Leader John Horgan asked Premier Christy Clark on Thursday to support a bill he plans to introduce in the legislature next month.
Advanced Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson delivered the Liberals’ reply, saying the party will reject the NDP bill.
Horgan has been critical of Clark’s fundraising, saying that just 1.5 per cent of donors to the Liberals accounted for half of the $12.3 million raised by the party last year.