“SNC dodged donations laws, probe told”

On March 15^th, 2013 Daniel Leblanc and Greg Mcarthur are journalists from The Globe and Mail and report about multinational corporate “SNC – Lavalin deliberately circumvented Quebec's political financing rules in the past decade, culminating in a flurry of donations to the governing Quebec Liberal Party in 2009 … SNC – Lavalin staff gave a total of $1 – million to the Quebec Liberal Party and the Parti Quebecois between 1998 and 2009.”¹ There is restriction in amount of money donated to the political parties. This restriction of camping donation is in place to create fairness in political system. The text book states that “the rich, for example, have advantage in all political games.”² In 2006, Prime Minister of Canada Harper passed the Federal Accountability Act bill C2 that it placed restriction in spending of $1000.00 CDN for a third party and groups or individuals must register and not spending $500.00 CDN.³

1The Globe and Mail. 15 March 2013 <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/snc-dodged-donation-laws-probe-told/article9808499/> 15 March 2013

2Jackson, Robert and Doreen Jackson. Canadian Government in Transition. Fifth Edition. T.O, ON: Pearson Canada, 2010. Pg 3

3Jackson, Robert and Doreen Jackson. Canadian Government in Transition. Fifth Edition. T.O, ON: Pearson Canada, 2010. Pg 238