Wealthy urban ridings, especially those represented by higher-profile politicians, lead the country in total donations to Canada’s federal political parties in the 5 years after the 2015 election, according to an analysis by and the IJF (THREAD)
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Ottawa Centre, home to Parliament Hill and many public servants, lobbyists and public policy stakeholders, led the country with $5.9 million in donations compared to the national average of $853,000
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Political donations can help buy donors access 👉 “You might get a phone call returned faster. You might get invited to the exclusive little meet and greet … at some large donor's house [or a] backyard barbecue,” said former Ontario finance minister Janet Ecker
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In our collaboration with , the IJF looked at the top 17 ridings in the 95th percentile of total donations over $200 and created city-level stories to encompass all of these ridings.
Here's the Toronto version:
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The Vancouver version is also available on our website:
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The rest of the city-level stories in our political donations series are available on the ’s website:
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Want to learn more about how we did the analysis? Check out the methodology for this series on the ’s site:
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