Secretive third-party advertisers challenging B.C. electoral reforms
One of the great lasting legacies of the BC NDP government will be its much-needed reforms to political finances. Banning union and corporate donations. Setting personal donation limits. Forcing disclosure on third-party advertisers in the 60-day pre-campaign period.
Overwhelmingly, the changes to political donations have been a positive pushback to the influence of big money in politics and a welcome beam of sunlight into the shadowy world of partisan finances. “This October, B.C. families face a returning threat, except now there’s two of them,” says a deep-voiced announcer.
It is spending early enough before the Oct. 19 provincial election that it can get away with not identifying its donors, sources of income, how much money is being spent, how it is being spent, or who it is affiliated with. Together, that’s an 88-day bubble of transparency and accountability for the public to know who is responsible for the ads they are reading, hearing and seeing.B.C.’s political parties are already in campaign mode, appointing candidates, holding party events and in some cases even running their own ads.
“The days of limitless donations, a lack of transparency and foreign and corporate influence over our elections are history,” then attorney general David Eby said Sept. 18, 2017.“Third-party advertisers have to follow the rules that are established in the province,” said Eby.
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