First, the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act will be in place but the law on expense limits will wait until the following election in November 2017. Disclosure and registration by third party advertisers will be in place. In North Van electoral slates who pretend to be independent groups of candidates should be revealed as sponsorship information is tightened.
Second, Elections BC will be formally involved so that appeals can made on rulings of the local staff person who works with Council daily.
Third, Electoral Organizations, like Unite North Van, must record expenses for the whole calendar 2014 year. If one of the slates, attempt to become a Party, all their spending must be recorded as of the 1st of January.
Fourth, if the current slates attempt to operate as a group of independent candidates to avoid the requirements of the law, that third party must register with sponsorship identification, authorization statements and contact details.
Finally, all candidates must make a Solemn Declaration with their nomination papers as part of the filing process. This should require a notarized letter and cost a small fee and diminish the number of candidates.
With all this in mind, let's play the who is going to run next time. I have already been advised that my running would just get the NDP elected in a majority. I became a Reformer in federal politics with a bunch of little Mulroneyrites saying the same darn thing, I see it as self serving, they are coming from their own self interest. Further, I see local politics being dominated by the NDP. NDPers under Mussatto who are pro mass development and another slate who are people who mostly NDP supporters who are more anti mass development. At end of the day they both want to increase our taxes, they just disagree on what to spend it on.
The blog article on who will probably run will wait until one year before the election, November 15th.
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