Yesterday, I provided some comments to CBC Radio in Calgary on a story regarding the city-owned energy company, Enmax and their donations to the PC Party of Alberta in 2009.
Those donations were in the amount of over $9,000 according to the Elections Alberta on-line campaign contribution database.
Well, apparently Enmax passed a policy in 2008 banning the corporation from making political donations.
According this news release and an e-mail confirmation I had forwarded my way, Elections Alberta had made a mistake, Enmax in fact never made this donation.
I have no idea how it was possible that Elections Alberta would have gotten this information and then not corrected it for over a year, but, it's good to know that Enmax isn't using public dollars to donate to provincial (or federal) political parties.
But it's still just an Enmax policy. According to the CBC report, city owned entities are still allowed to make donations to political parties, but not individual candidates. That still needs to change.
But good for Enmax for correcting the record.
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