The system set up by the New Democratic Party to honour former leader Jack Layton’s wish for donations for the fledgling Broadbent Institute will provide donors with much higher tax deductions than they would get if they were to contribute directly to the institute, iPolitics has learned.
By flowing the donations through the party, most donors will get tax deductions several times higher than they would have gotten if they were to donate directly to a non-profit corporation or a charity.
For example, a $400 donation to the Broadbent Institute through the NDP would net the donor a $300 tax credit. However, the same amount donated directly to a charity would provide a tax credit or only $119 to $176, depending on the province.
As of Thursday morning, $125,000 had been donated to the NDP, earmarked for the Broadbent Institute.
Hey – it’s not unethical unless Elections Coalition says it’s unethical.
(Via BC Blue)
Update! Diane Benson, spokeswoman for Elections Canada, says Section 405.21 of the Act prohibits a political party from soliciting or accepting a contribution if it has told the contributor that the money would be transferred to a body other than the party, a candidate, a leadership contestant or electoral district association.
Is this even legal?
I love it that the NDP has turned the death of their Dear Leader into a skanky political fundraising scam-fest. How utterly Laytonesque. A real tribute to the true nature of the party and the man.
If you want to throw up a bit in your mouth, just go to CBC.ca and look at the headline picture.
Not one red cent from this family will ever be used to support the NDP and their affiliates.
As a former union member I detested having my mandatory dues used to support this abominable excuse of a political party.
It’s a disgusting outrage but do we dare discuss this at a time like this? Won’t we be called nasty things by the hypocrites? Yep, we will and we will!
IMO,this is coming out at a time that could well take the shine off what’s becoming a circus atmosphere. Although lighting up the CN tower with orange lights may well be fitting since Jack was the NDP. Without him they’re a shell with an interim leader new to the party and Federal politics for the rest of the year and into the next.
Slush Fund.
According to the MSM article ,it IS legal. There’s apparently a loophole that no Party wants to close that allows this sleight of hand.
Funny how a donation to a political Party gives you a better tax break than one to a decent charity that might actually do some good.
Jumpin’ Jesus on a pogo stick!!!! What gives?!?! He was the leader of the opposition, not the head of state or govt. Cannon fire?!?! The Highway of Heroes? What next, sainthood? Nah, he was an atheist. Now the left is sobbing crocodile tears and using his death as a platform to raise money. Vile, twisted and utterly vomit inducing.
As a side note, in New York, the 9/11 memorial has no room for firefighters, police, rescue workers or clergy. Nope, all being used by politicians. Narcissists all of them.
Elections Coalition? I think Kate is mocking Elections Canada, correct?
I wonder how many Ruling Class types visit sda regularly? Do their heads explode or are they unable/unwilling to read/comprehend anything non-MSM?
Uh huh. No surprises here.
The leftist scams continue, all under the guise of the touch-feely, Kumbaya-Compassion, we-really-care-for-the-poor-and-downtrodden mask of the NDP.
Like richfisher says, SLUSH FUND! Broadbent oughta know: He’s a supporter of the Trudeau Foundation and the scholarships they dole out:
http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/program/mentorships/current/2010/edwardbroadbent
Oops, latest word is the NDP has corrected “misinformation” on their website, and there’s no tax refund given to those who donate to the Broadbent Institute.
We have to wonder if it’s a change made because they got caught. Why was this story circulating without foundation?
And over at National Newswatch there are only 18 articles about Layton today,including one in which “a five year old would vote for Layton”.
Layton may become the first sanctified atheist,Saint Jack,Patron Saint of Massage Therapists.
I’d like to be the first to get a plastic Jack to hang from my rear view mirror.
because no one does tax fraud like socialists, especially when it is in their self interest at the expense of others.
Think of how much money they could raise if they built a glass-topped mobile hermetically sealed Lenin tomb for dear Jack and scheduled it for display in every union hall and faculty lounge across the nation. You could drop a toonie into the machine and an orange light would illuminate Jack’s face for 30 seconds. Forget dignity, their ends justify their means!
It’s been updated Kate.
http://tinyurl.com/43zsy76
Posted on Fri, Aug 26, 2011, 11:24 am by Elizabeth Thompson The system set up by the New Democratic Party to honor former NDP Leader Jack Layton’s wish for donations to the fledgling Broadbent Institute may violate Canada’s elections law.
Diane Benson, spokeswoman for Elections Canada, says Section 405.21 of the Act prohibits a political party from soliciting or accepting a contribution if it has told the contributor that the money would be transferred to a body other than the party, a candidate, a leadership contestant or electoral district association.
If charged and found guilty, the party could face a fine of up to $5,000.
What a scam, they found a loop hole in the act, read down to see the wiggle space they found.I thought progressives were against loopholes?
Updated on IPolitics. Elections Canada indicates that the arrangement may violate section 405.21 of Elections Act. The party is not allowed to solicit or accept donations if the person is being told the money is earmarked for something other than the party, it’s candidates, or electoral district associations.
http://ipolitics.ca/2011/08/26/ndp-arrangement-for-broadbent-institute-donations-may-violate-elections-law/
dmorris:
My massage therapist wife objects to your sanctification.
She recommends Saint Jack, Patron saint of Prostitution.
As proof, the CBC ran a voice clip of Saint Jack on the day he died … arguing for the legalization of prostitution. Seriously.
Massage therapy is a legitimate profession. Try not to disparage those trying to make an honest living by equating what they do with what Jack did, will ya?
This whole thing is so perfectly tacky and so perfectly NDP….
Is this not the party that states people with money should be paying more taxes to help support people without?
I’m sorry, what was that?…
I didn’t quite hear you….
Oh, you meant OTHER people!
Oh well then that’s different.
Sounds very “in and out-ish”, doesn’t it?
Should we summon the CBC and raid the NDP headquarters?
Oh right, it’s only “in and out” if a Conservative does it.
Better yet, let’s have the RCMP with Ezra Levant in tow, raid the NDP headquarters! We might even dioscover a few incandescent light bulbs and non-recycled copy paper!
You mean to say that they guy who brought down the Adscammer LIEberal party is now going to be remembered by ‘money laundering’?
Say it ain’t so Kate!!
I think this might qualify as more than a “double dip” – but rather a “triple dog dare you dip”.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Actually, I’ve left this kind suggest to the “What should we name for Jack” here in Toronto, at several websites, but none have allowed the comment:
The Jack Layton Memorial Toronto Deficit
I find it rather curious that the avowed ‘atheist” Jack called a minister the day before he passed away so he could be buried through a CHRISTIAN serivce. Seems there really are no atheists in the foxholes.
Crooked shysters.Yes! But not atheists.
Will the people who donated hoping to get the larger tax credit get their money back? And why are good little socialists wanting tax breaks anyway?
“And over at National Newswatch there are only 18 articles about Layton today,including one in which “a five year old would vote for Layton”.”
I mentioned the above to my wife and she said, “Of course, because 5 year olds are stupid.”
Back in junior high, response to an incident where a boy tripped and ran (literally) into a parked teachers’ car escalated to the point where the story was that the teacher had hit him at high speed and spread him over the highway, and the majority of the grade 8 and 9 girls were in the washroom (it WAS a small school) wailing in hysterical grief.
This death, the ultimate fate of all of us, is being used for political gain by the cynical NDP with the enthusiastic particiation of the MSM, and it looks like it was orchestrated in part by Jack! himself.
SYF,please convey my sincere apologies to your dear wife. I should have put “massage Therapist” in quotation marks,as we both know that lady who serviced Jack was no trained MT.
I’ve been to MT’s many times for various work related injuries,and they always were very professional and effective.
Which is not to say that Jack’s masseuse wasn’t effective,she probably erased all visions of the homely woman Jack was married to, for a few moments.
Ezra really hit the nail on the head on this in today’s Sun column.
I don’t know why but his opinions seem so much better to me in print than they do with his over the top live satirical delivery.
“Layton may become the first sanctified atheist,Saint Jack,Patron Saint of Massage Therapists.”
Nuh uh. Patron saint of underage Asian hookers.
Soliciting funds for the party in the name of the dearly departed isn’t a new strategy for the NDP. BC MLA Leonard Krog went looking for $$ for the party in his mother’s obituary.
Ethics. Schmethics. We’re dealing with the NDP.
The NDP pimping the death of their leader, gee it is just so hard to believe…..
He’ll become the patron saint of Happy Endings.
BTW, here’s the phrasing of the update referred to above:
He’s screwing the taxpayer from the grave,well done Jack.
Any bets this little scam was planned in advance?
BTW,Elections Canada does not investigate complaints unless they deem it to be in the public interest.
This prevents abuse of the system by those who would make petty complaints. It also allows them to direct all their investigative powers at the Conservatives.
They have been on a vendetta against PMSH since he challenged them years ago.
Can’t imagine the hue and cry that will come forth when the Conservatives do this for Mulroney. 🙂
As Kate pointed out a couple days ago… stash this entire orgy away for the day Mulroney kicks the can.
I wonder if the Broadbent Foundation gets rejected as a charity for accepting funds from the NDP. After all, one of the requirements of a charity in Canada is that it be non-political. They lose their charitable status if they engage in political activities.
Broadbent Institute = a Left Wing Think Tank.
Left Wing Think Tank = an oxymoron.
Hey Kate, when are you going to start “Jack Layton, not dead enough!”? I bet you can’t wait.
In honour of Jack, remembering the police intervention that prematurely ended his tenure at 787 Dundas, I suggest it would be appropriate to rename the Don Valley Parkway’s Dundas Street off-ramp in honour of Jack.
It would now be known as the Jack off-ramp.
Tacky you bet– typical of the progressive lot to use a funeral as a fund raising tool, doesn’t sound like it’s much of a success? Judging people by the way they dress I’d say the hippy dippers aren’t digging in very deep.
The chalk memorials and remembrances will fade and disappear altogether.
If this is not illegal it certainly should be. What would happen if Conservatives flowed funds through the party to help the Fraser Institute? I appreciate that this is a new “think tank”, but it can survive quite well on Union donations if need be. Unions in Ottawa recently donated $15,000 to fight a development project approved by city hall. No matter that the city and taxpayers pay their members. Anyway, this money laundering is a scam and they should be called on it.
BY this time next year Layton will only be an eddy in the air. Invisable, forgotten. The NDP internal fights have just started.
Calm Down!
Progressives need these funds to pay for driving their clients to the polls..
and feeding them,
and letting them sleep there..
Lefty’s callous value system never fails to amaze me. This move signals that all the weepy pomp and cerimony over Layton’s demise was as phoney as crocodile tears. By asking people to make a political donation instead of a donation to research on the illness that killed Layton, they display the averice and greed we all know can only come from leftist fanaticism.
Up your NDP! Your value system rivals that of a remorseless pimp.
BY this time next year Layton will only be an eddy in the air. Invisable, forgotten. . . .
Posted by: Revnant Dream at August 26, 2011 2:38 PM
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What are the chances that good old Jack! has selected novel funeral arrangements?
Cremation? No, no, no, not good for the environment. Burial? Same deal.
What will Jack! do?
I’m hoping the coffin is lined in velvet. That would be a nice touch.
Mike in White Rock @ August 26, writes: “I find it rather curious that the avowed ‘atheist’ Jack called a minister the day before he passed away so he could be buried through a CHRISTIAN service. Seems there really are no atheists in the foxholes.”
Mike, not so fast! Here’re two cross posts by me about this very subject:
1) (August 25 @ 6:30 p.m.): “It’s interesting that the clergyperson taking the funeral is Brent Hawkes, the activist, gay minister of the LGTB (Lesbian, Gay, Transgendered, Bisexual) Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto. He, apparently, has some special message to deliver. That Jack was bisexual? That Olivia is . . .? That Jack died of . . .? Who knows? From all the pictures prominently posted by the media lately, it appears that Jack and Olivia both lustily joined in the lewd, pornographic Gay Pride Parade every year. WHAT a circus! But that seems to be what the lefties crave.
“I’ll be avoiding the funeral coverage like the plague but it’s likely I’ll learn the special message one way or another. I’m not sure that anything is going to surprise me at this point.”
2) (August 26 @ 9:07 a.m.) “maz2, many thanks for that bit of Psalm 107: one of my very favourites! A few verses later (31-32, Coverdale version, 14th century), ‘O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness, and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men! /That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders!’ It’ll be interesting to see if any scripture is read at THE funeral: the Rev. Brent Hawkes was educated at an Anglican seminary, but perhaps, like the Anglican Church, itself, he’s taken a sharp left turn right out of the fold.”
Mike, like most of the left, I’d say Jack’s “Christianity” is opportunistic and inauthentic: IMO, Brent Hawkes is to Christian Church as Jack Layton is to faithful husband.
What else would one expect from these preening impostors, who are legends in their own (very small, if they exist at all) minds?
A couple of points on this issue:
• Charities are tax-exempt, while political parties are not. That may explain the difference in tax credits.
• The generous tax credit accorded to political parties should be cancelled altogether and replaced by the per/vote subsidy that the Conservatives intend to eliminate. As a matter of fact, I would go so far as to call for eliminating tax credits for donations to charities as well. If you want to help out, it should be because you truly want to help out, not because you’re getting a tax credit, deduction, or some other benefit.
I disagree with the reasons given by the Conservatives to the effect that the per/vote subsidy is unfair because taxpayers end up supporting political parties whose ideology they may disagree with. That is indeed the case with the tax credits, since those tax credits come out of general tax revenue, whereas when I cast my vote for the Conservatives, I know $2.02 goes along with it to the CP and not another party.
Gabby,the vote subsidy comes abut of general revenue.If you didn’t pay taxes but voted,where do you think that 2 bucks came from?
OTOH,only allowing those who pay taxes to vote does have appeal.