New Brunswick government to ban corporate and union political donations
FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government will ban union and corporate donations to political parties in the province as of June 1.
Just last week, the government announced a list of electoral reforms, but said phasing out the corporate and union donations wouldn’t be considered until after the next provincial election in the fall of 2018.
But that abruptly changed Thursday, during a legislative committee meeting on those reforms. Members were debating a bill that would reduce the limit on political donations by an individual, union or corporation to $3,000 from the current $6,000.
The Opposition Progressive Conservatives introduced an amendment to completely ban corporate and union donations.