No, not that. I mean, he’s raised a lot of money for his campaign. From Le Devoir: (in French)
Ottawa — Justin Trudeau a amassé près de 600 000 $ au cours des trois premiers mois de sa campagne à la chefferie du Parti libéral du Canada (PLC).
Cette cagnotte inclut 125 000 $ en dons d’environ 1400 individus au cours des trois derniers jours de 2012.
La directrice de la campagne Katie Telford a souligné dans un courriel aux membres de l’équipe de M. Trudeau qu’un collecteur de fonds avait reçu plus de 20 000 $ le lendemain de Noël uniquement.
Bien que la capacité d’un candidat à amasser des fonds ne soit pas un gage de succès, il s’agit d’une mesure fiable de la capacité d’un candidat à se bâtir une base partisane suffisamment imposante pour lui permettre d’obtenir le soutien nécessaire pour l’emporter dans un scrutin où chaque membre a un vote.
Durant la course à la direction du Parti néodémocrate l’an dernier, Thomas Mulcair avait amassé le plus de dons – un peu plus de 443 000 $ en cinq mois – en route vers la victoire.
The other candidates haven’t released any numbers yet. But as the Devoir article notes, none is very likely to raise similar amounts.
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Now that he has alot of money don’t you think that he Trudeau should give it to Chief Spence ‘without any attachment to it (accountability).
Trudeau has a lot of “other peoples’ money” so in effect, he does have a lot in common with Chief “Double-chin-starving-in-tent”
The question is, what will he do with it? At the very least, I hope he provides the occassional invoice or bill of lading when the auditors at Elections Canada request it.
After Ezra went through the fin statements of Attawapiskat, my first thought was that someone from the CRA should do a title/deed search for homes listed under Chief Spence’s name, or that or her partner and her fellow “Band Councillors” I suspect, a lot of them planned on retiring comfortably away from the shit-hole they currently call home; leaving their “people” to rot up North.
Call the cops….and just pray they do their jobs this time.