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Part 1 of 2. On Tuesday we look at top donors to the NDP. Liberals have given big in the past decade, with the top 50 handing out more than $30 million since 2005. Liberals,replica cartier necklace mens, anexamination by Postmedia shows.

The analysis shows a similar situationfor union donations to the NDP, where unions in the top 50 contributors to the party accounted for 30 per cent of the $42 million raised between 2005 2015.

This concentration of big donors, say experts, is an important consideration in a debate overwhether corporate and unions donations should be banned and individual donations capped as in other populousprovinces including Ontario, Quebec and Alberta and also federally, under the premise that money buys influence in politics. Liberals include natural resource heavyweights like the coal and metals minerTeck, which gave $2.82 million, in the No. 1 spot,replica cartier baby love necklace, and energy company Encana ($1.18 million), miner Goldcorp ($1.08 million) and forestry company West Fraser ($990,320).

In all, there are 10 natural resource companies in the top 50.

However, the largest group by far among top donors to the Liberals are property developers: 21 are in the top 50.

These developersinclude the Aquilini family, whichalso own the Canucks, in the No. 2 spot ($1.43 million); the Adera Group ($1.1 million), started by Ken Mahon; Wesbild ($929,576), owned by Future Shop founder Hassan Khosrowshahi; and Peter Wall and nephew Bruno Wall ($914,425),cartier replica love necklace, who own and manage Wall Financial Corp.

The top 50 list also includes Polygon, Concord Pacific, the Beedie Group, Onni, the Redekops, the Ilichs and the Bosas. 3 spot. Liberals for 2016 and the first few weeks of 2017 to compile the list.

Multiple donations from the same business were consolidated. and by longtime Teck chairman Norman Keevil.

Some property developersalso gave under numerous different companies.

Ken Mahon,replica cartier chain ring, the founder of Adera, for example, gave under more than 30 different companies, often with very different names such as K Properties, Cartier Investments, Terrapin Mortgage Investments and Drifter Enterprises.

The Aquilinis gave under 24 companies and individuals, Wesbild under 16, and the Beedie Group under10.

Some companies, such as Polygon Homes, owned by Michael Audain, also gave under numbered companies.

The reach of companies can also comes in other ways.

Jimmy Pattison, one of Canada's richest individuals, is on the top 50 list, contributing nearly $390,000 through such companies as Great Pacific Capital Corp., Overwaitea Foods Group and the Canadian Fishing Co. But through his companies, Pattison also holds a 44 per cent interest in forestry heavyweight Canfor, which donated $852,566, and a 27 per cent stake in Westshore Terminals, which donated another $28,250 to the Liberals.

By amalgamating and consolidating the donors, a picture emerges of where the big donors are more concentrated, and make up a larger percentage of the total donations to the Liberals than would appear without the analysis.

There is also a significant difference between the concentration of the top donors and those who gave the least. Liberals' donors list fromdonors who havegiven $5 and $10 up to people who havegiven $5,000 in total since 2005 it would take more than 27,000 donations to add up to $30.6 million, according to Postmedia's analysis. NDP advocates bans on corporate and union donations and a cap on individual donations. and Ottawa based Democracy Watch have also called for the bans and caps.

Christopher Cotton, a Queen's University political economist, said the Postmedia data analysis shows banning corporate and union donations would level the fundraising playing field because the Liberals are more able to raise large corporate donations.

Cotton said it also shows allowing corporate donations decreases transparency because many companies can be controlled by the same person.

"The contributions look more diffused than they actually are they are much more concentrated in reality," said Cotton.

The Wall

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