Green Party’s treasurer says the party received more than $710,000 in individual donations last year — a record for a year with no election. Aird Flavelle laid out the milestone at the party’s annual convention in New Westminster this weekend. Flavelle says the Greens have grown from paying off a $25,000 loan in 2016 to raising record-breaking donations and receiving $830,000 from the provincial government last year as a result of the party’s electoral performance. The NDP government introduced campaign finance reforms that banned corporate and union donations, limited individual contributions and set an allowance of $2.50 per vote received in the 2017 provincial election. Flavelle says the Greens spent $180,000 to promote proportional representation during the referendum on B.C.’s electoral system last year.

Source: National Post June 09, 2019 21:45 UTC