James Wood, Saskatchewan News NetworkPublished: Friday, May 02, 2008
The Saskatchewan Party took in more than twice as much cash as the NDP in 2007 as they romped to victory in the November provincial election.
Party financial statements filed with Elections Saskatchewan and posted on its web site Thursday show the Saskatchewan Party with a whopping $4.79 million in donations last year.
In fact, the party's take from corporate donations alone -- $3.02 million -- exceeds the NDP's total haul of $2.28 million.
The financial documents come just weeks after the Saskatchewan Party accused the NDP of being puppets of organized labour for its reliance on union donations -- $165,999 in the 2007 documents.
University of Saskatchewan political scientist David McGrane said it was a dangerous argument for the Saskatchewan Party to make given its dominance in business money.
"It's easy to turn that around now and say the Saskatchewan Party is in the back pockets of the corporations ... like it's been said before, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," said McGrane with a laugh in an interview Thursday.
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