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] by Gary Malley @theglobeandmail.com - Malley questions the ethics of the 50K "stipend" that BC premier Clark recieves for her work on Liberal party fundraising.

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] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/christy-clarks-private-allowance-from-bc-liberals-is-no-joke/article29780527/

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] 2016-04-27

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] It is fair to ask whether one of the reasons B.C. Premier Christy Clark steadfastly refuses to ban corporate donations as other provinces have is because it could impact the amount of money she receives from her party for being leader. ( 277K over 5 years )
] Last year, the Premier helped the party raise nearly $10-million. The party, in turn, took some of that money – $50,000, in fact – and gave it to Ms. Clark for her efforts.
] Ms. Clark and her party see no problem with the Premier attending dinners where only the rich get access, dinners where attendees can bend Ms. Clark’s ear about any issue on their mind, and then the Premier getting paid out of the pool of funds generated by these very donor events.
] The Premier does not appear to see the direct benefit she is receiving as a result of her attendance at these exclusive, cash-for-access fundraisers.
] Increasingly, the BC Liberals are an ethical outlier when it comes to this sort of stuff.
] A check by The Globe of other provincial leaders in the country shows again that what the BC Liberals are doing is highly irregular. Premier Brad Wall in Saskatchewan is the only other provincial leader who gets an allowance from his party over and above his government salary. The amount he receives – $37,000 – is disclosed. That is not the case in British Columbia. The reason there are only two leaders who get this kind of political top-up is because it looks horrible.
] In British Columbia, the matter was raised in Question Period on Wednesday. The Liberals mostly laughed their way through the Opposition questions. You can tell Ms. Clark and her Liberal colleagues do not take this issue seriously nor believe it will hurt them at the polls. The Premier smiled as her response to questions about her Liberal Party income morphed into a soliloquy about the economy. There didn’t appear to be a single person on the government benches taking the matter seriously.
] What Ms. Clark fails to understand is that this is serious. There is a matter of grave public interest here. The Premier, the head of government, is selling access through party fundraising events. That is without dispute. And she is benefiting from the proceeds that access generates. It is a clear conflict. And yet, she and her party treat it like a big joke.
] One other thing to consider about all this: The people whose donations fund Ms. Clark’s Liberal Party salary get a tax receipt. In other words, taxpayers are subsidizing the $50,000 income that the Premier’s party gives her on top of the $200,000 citizens are already paying her as the head of government.

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> Christy Clark has no moral compass. Her test of whether something is ethical is whether she can still, despite that, get re-elected, even though those re-electing her are those buying access to her ear. Decision-making on this file should not be in her hands. There should be clear legal and ethical standards that apply across our country, rather than those with the power being able to write the rules, and auction the writing of that rulebook.

In an era when we are severely threatened by climate change, at enormous peril to the entire population, we need, more than ever, to have people in office who do have at least a basic level of morality and intellect. Sadly, we are still stuck electing those who are best at manipulating, cheerily cheating, and empty-headed sloganeering.

Ms. Clark knows nothing other than that she wants to "get to yes". We can see that her "yes" is being bought and paid for. Some people would file that under "world's oldest profession".

> Spell it B-R-I-B-E.

Perhaps this explains why Christy Clark has failed to do anything to stop blatant fraud in the real estate market.

Perhaps New Coast Realty have been slush funding the Lliberal Party as an indirect route to Christy Clark's pocket. Paying her to keep quiet while they totally disrupt the Vancouver housing market, lining their pockets in the process.

And that would be a K-I-C-K-B-A-C-K. It's the Chinese way.

https://bcblue.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/globe-omits-christy-clark-caught-cheating-during-university-election/

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