This week Paul Wilcocks argued in these pages that poltical donations are anything but benign.

This in response Minister Bill Bennett's comments in the wake of the Mount Polley toxic spill.

As Wilcocks quoted in his piece:

"It's really insulting for anybody to suggest that because we take donations from a group of corporations like the mining industry that we're going to cut them a break," he told Mike Smyth of the Province newspaper. "We can't be bought, OK?"

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