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Originally Posted by sabredog
I wold not doubt for one minute that vested interests are behind this. Whispered promises of "donations" to election campaigns and party coffers.
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That's not as big a problem in Canada as it is in the USA. Maximum donations are quite small (about a thousand bucks), and can only be made by individuals. See, for example:
http://canadaonline.about.com/od/fed...tributions.htm. However, that's not to say that plain old-fashioned bribery never happens.
In this case, the vested interests are probably getting the US government to apply the screws.