Russ Campbell’s Blog: Dippers at It Again?
The sneaky Dippers are apparently, once again, trying to put one over on us. Readers may remember that, following Jack Layton’s death, the New Democrats dreamed up a scheme to issue political tax receipts for donations intended for the Broadbent Institute. This time, they’re using taxpayer money to fund staff in “satellite” offices in Quebec and Saskatchewan.
For both schemes, NDP spokespersons publicly assured Canadians they had cleared their plans in advance. And both times their clever plans were shut down once they came under public scrutiny.
After former NDP leader Jack Layton died in 2011, his family asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Broadbent Institute, a left-wing think tank named after former NDP leader Ed Broadbent. Since the Broadbent Institute lacked tax-status as a charity, however, the donations went through the NDP and were later to be transferred to the think tank.