This made my morning
In today's Ottawa Citizen:
Having the party in the black makes it a lot easier to ask for donations from the membership. I will me much more likely to donate knowing I am paying for the future campaigns, not a previous failure.
It was always hard to argue with Liberals/Dippers when the Alliance or PCers were in debt - how can they manage the country's finances when they can't manage their own.
One other thing - wonder why Layton was so desperate for the government not to fall while the Bloc and Tories were more concerned about having a Throne speech that meant something?
Tory House leader John Reynolds has previously said the party's "in the black," and the rumour mill suggests the Conservatives have roughly $1 million in the bank.The Conservatives didn't respond to the Liberal ads late in the June campaign - this is a positive result of that decision - was it a conscious one?
If that proves to be the case, the Conservatives would join the Bloc Quebecois as the only major parties to be debt-free. Both the Liberals and the NDP have shortfalls in the millions.
Liberal president Mike Eizenga recently estimated the party owed about $3.6 million after the campaign, and that total party debt was closer to $5 million if one takes into account the amounts the central party has promised to its various provincial wings and member organizations.
Having the party in the black makes it a lot easier to ask for donations from the membership. I will me much more likely to donate knowing I am paying for the future campaigns, not a previous failure.
It was always hard to argue with Liberals/Dippers when the Alliance or PCers were in debt - how can they manage the country's finances when they can't manage their own.
One other thing - wonder why Layton was so desperate for the government not to fall while the Bloc and Tories were more concerned about having a Throne speech that meant something?
