BC Liberal Campaign Theme Song: "CHING - CHING - CHING!!"

Elections BC reports that the BC Liberals have raised over $3 million for the upcoming campaign, compared to the NDP's $900,000.

73% of Liberal donations come from corporations, with Canfor, Interfor, and Tek Cominco leading the way. Despite Gordon Campbell's delusionist diatribe that the NDP is in the pocket of 'Big Labour', Unions only make up 12% of NDP donations last year.

New Democrats want to see a ban on corporate and union donations, similar to legislation in Manitoba. If a ban was in place in BC in 2004, the donation figures would look something like:

New Democrats: $774,000
BC Liberals: $810,000

Of course, these figures will go up as May 17 approaches. In fact, one might be surprised at just how easy it is to make them go up...