I found the following article from the Vancouver Sun is illuminating. It doesn’t reference every municipality specifically, but what it has to say about the rules that Langford and other municipalities work under is very interesting.
- Steven Hurdle -
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Municipal politicians deserve more scrutiny
Miro Cernetig, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, March 31, 2008
In case you’re not convinced that municipal politics are a little too murky, a little too free-wheeling for their own good, just consider Prof. Patrick Smith’s recent research. He’s been trying to collect basic information on campaign contributions to our municipal leaders.
It’s been no easy job.
The intrepid professor from Simon Fraser University’s Institute of Governance Studies has been getting his students to file freedom-of-information requests to 26 municipalities, seeking the finances of local politicians in the 1999 elections.
The requests were filed in 2006, in hopes of collecting the documents before they were destroyed or filed away out of public reach. There are no rules governing destruction of such documents, but most municipalities Read the rest of this entry »
