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 Political scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A political scandal is a scandal in which politicians engage in various illegal or unethical practices.
A political scandal can involve the breaking of the nation's laws or plotting to do so.
Some political scandals are sex scandals involving a politician.
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 List of Canadian political scandals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pacific scandal - allegations of bribes being taken by the government of Sir John A. Macdonald (1870s)
Political bribing and taping scandal involving PMO chief of staff Tim Murphy, Heath Minister Ujjal Dosanjh and MP Gurmant Grewal.
Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan scandals - Scandals that emerged in the 1990s involving Grant Devine's Progressive Conservative government implicating 16 MLAs, with the chief conviction that of Deputy Premier Eric Berntson in 1999.
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 Canadian Commentary: Making Political Financing Truly Democratic
In fact, most Canadians are fortunate if they can afford to donate $100 to their political party of choice.
For instance, the political process would be enriched if parties could present their viewpoints on active issues directly to voters through advertising in the periods between elections, rather than just once every four years.
The result would be a truly democratic political funding system, and one that would force parties to consider their popularity all of the time, rather than just in the run-up to elections.
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Canadian Grassroots.ca is a non-partisan membership organization dedicated to ensuring that there are truly grassroots based major political parties in Canada at the federal and provincial levels.
Canadian Grassroots.ca want to be able to elect our party leaders, national councils, local riding boards of directors, Members of Parliament, and Senators in an open and democratic fashion, based upon one vote per member, and to have a say in all major decisions affecting our lives, our local communities, and our country.
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 Canadian Political Contribution Tax Credit
The political purpose delivers benefit to party supporters, or their purpose is intentionally engaging in political activity that protests a policy or law, or the lack of a policy or a law.
Political purposes and activities are not defined in the Income Tax Act; however, it is well established in the law that an organization whose purpose is the attainment of a political object is not organized for a charitable purpose.
The political economy we have now depends upon the ability of a tiny minority of the most wealthy persons to be able to use their money to influence the political process.
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 Encyclopedia: Canadian political scandals
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Dar Heatherington - forced to resign from Lethbridge city council in 2004 after being convicted of public mischief.
2004 Canadian sponsorship scandal - Liberal Party of Canada - misuse and misdirection of funds
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 Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources
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 HistoryTelevision.ca :: Articles
As a nation founded under the notion of counter-revolution, it is not surprising that when we say "political scandal" in our great land, it doesn't quite hold the same impact as it does, say, south of the 49th parallel.
And while they may not have involved break and enters and petty criminals, Iran and arms, or sex and interns, the political scandals of Canada's short 137 years have sufficiently stirred the ire of the common citizen.
And, to be fair, oftimes the party or prime minister in power in a year when a transgression is exposed will find his or herself bearing the brunt of public retribution in place of their forerunners.
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next web page indicates that when there are more than two political parties democracy is the real looser, along with the majority of folks who have literally "lost", their majority votes.
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