Affluent lefties live in bigger houses in better neighbourhood,  eat better food, take better vacations, and many other things the poor cannot do. Still they go out and fight for a better society.

The NDP has a list of very wealthy doners,  multimillionaire in fact that give them money. Why? I can’t tell you? Everybody has their reasons. Most affluent lefties live in neighborhoods where the public school is very good.

These politicians aren’t leaders—for all of the ones listed above, it’s about personal gain for themselves and their buddies (whoever they may be).  A true leader who truly wants to make changes for the betterment of our society is indeed a rarity.

Doug, these wealthy doners who contribute to the NDP coffers most likely have a vested interest.  I would also bet that a large number of these mysterious doners are highly paid civil servants (aka champagne socialists)—the ceo of Hydro One who earns over 1.5 million/annum is just for one example. 

In Ontario there are enough civil servants on the sunshine list to populate a city.  Do you think they’re not keenly interested in left-winged policies?

Actually if there is any reason for it I noticed two groups.

1) the first group are called ‘orange diaper babies’ children born to activist NDP families and raised on social equality ideology. Many end up in medicine, law real estate or other fields where they became rich. Kiefer Sutherland is perfect example.

The second are people who had an early life of hard work, one guy was a Dutch trade unionists,  the other a UAW activist in their youth who went into business later made a lot of money but kept the orange card in their pocket.

There are many Margaret Atwood ’ s and David Suzuki all over the place. The Cadbury family that made chocolate gave tons to the NDP. The Atkinson who ran the Tory tar were actually Liberal but gave lots of money to the NDP because the Liberals they said we’re “not progressive enough”.

I had the party job st one time with another fellow to go pick up the checks in Rosedale and Forest Hill.

Yep.  Doug, I’m sure you’re spot on, however many of these people don’t practise what they preach: 
Keifer’s dad, Donald refused to live in Canada for a given number of days in order to avoid paying Canadian taxes.  Keifer grew up this way, but obviously he thinks nothing of the NDP’s high taxes on Canadians that his father refused to pay.  David Suziki, who our children thought was a saint, until my husband ran into him filming.  He and his crew were driving gas-guzzling monster, and I’ve heard of his palatial home which would take an unnecessary tole on our environment, and btw, he expects our government (in otherwords, us taxpayers) to pay for all of his programming and research.  Oh yah, who loves David Suziki?  The CBC of course—both of whom live off of taxpayers.  Margaret Atwood—nice that she’s a Canadian authoress, but she gets grants from tax payers that ‘support Canadian art’.  Paul Martin (whom you didn’t mention) runs his business out of the Caribean—so he sends his kids to private school, believes in the left social programmes, but like all of the above doesn’t want to pay for it himself

Doug, these people as you said are very wealthy, and quite frankly,  I don’t admire any of them—and I sometimes think they’re doing far more damage than good, because the way I see it, they’re taking advantage of tax payers.  I simply can’t categorize them as highly ethical people.

More to add to the list:

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