Freedom_forlife:
Release the donor list. It’s supposed to be public record.
Stock-Creme-6345:
This. A million percent this. Then get rid of them in any way possible. They all are a scourge on our society.
TheEpicOfManas:
I agree. It’s the the paradox of tolerance – we can’t tolerate these assholes subverting our political system and trying to secede from Canada.
chmilz:
The entire lot are criminals and grifters.
AccomplishedDog7:
Fined for accepting foreign funds.
atlanticrim:
Russia loves to toss money at this
AccomplishedDog7:
No, they were find for accepting money from outside Canada. Third fine on the list.
Dadbodsarereal:
Release the donor list!
Waste_Pressure_4136:
The 120k is probably nothing compared to the Kremlin bucks he received
Financial-Savings-91:
They just wont pay it, then the police will levy another fine that they just won’t pay. The police will refuse to do anything more because police in Alberta are notorious for policing along political lines, and Take Back Alberta is on the right side of that line.
Admirable-Sink-2622:
Take Alberta Back? How far back?
EmbarrassedQuit7009:
As this group is comprised of Neanderthals I would guess the stone age.
SymbolicFacts:
David Parker looks like such an unfuckable loser
EnigmaCA:
He really does have a punchable face, doesn’t he?
Stock-Creme-6345:
He does have an extremely punchable face. Which – he should be punished with such a thing. For making reasonable Albertans put up with what we have the past few years, how the less fortunate of our province have had their lives turned upside down (AISH, LBGTQ2S+) we should be able to get one free punch of his face. I would do a classic final Boss Iron Mike Tyson Punchout style punch. It could be argued the Streetfighter punch would be better…..
baintaintit:
“Cheating/fraud isn’t wrong when God gives us permission.”
Stock-Creme-6345:
Funny thing this. Jesus walked with the poor and wasn’t concerned with money, and made sure the less fortunate had what they needed. I am long left Catholicism but – these “Christians” sure like to pick and choose who they help. Then they always need money. Strange.
T-Wrox:
There sure are a lot of modern “Christians” who don’t act very Christ-like. 🙁
Stock-Creme-6345:
Yep. And they sure are adaptable to pick and choose which parts they agree with that they openly support.
Pale-Measurement-532:
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You’re not a true “Christian” when you’re corrupt by money, greed, and power.
skloonatic:
They will use this to raise a crapload of funds and come out better off than before
Pale-Measurement-532:
There will likely be more roadside campouts/protests/grifting from low IQ TBA supporters who don’t have any minds of their own.
c_vanbc:
Not Albertan but I care. That guy’s an awful person. The only time he’s happy is when others suffer.
Pale-Measurement-532:
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Pure selfishness and a sociopath.
boistras:
Prime Minister [ in her own mind ] Smith and her boy Pierre , also ARE
DANGEROUS TO CANADA’S FUTURE !
YOU’LL SEE
redeyedrenegade420:
Marlania will probably pay it for him with public funds.
T-Wrox:
It’s pretty well-known here that TBA is running the show here in Alberta. 🙁
Pale-Measurement-532:
Of course she will cause she’s that stupid. She was stupid enough to believe that our laws were similar to the U.S. and she could pardon the border protesters. Ummm, nope, sorry! The Canadian parliamentary system doesn’t work that way Marlaina!
Financial-Savings-91:
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Given the UCP’s staunch support of Trump it’s pretty clear the money came from Republicans.
Wake up Alberta, our government got bought out from under us because we cared more about dog whistles than policy.
Pale-Measurement-532:
Some/most of the money ultimately came from Russia.
Pale-Measurement-532:
Oh gee. Do you think he was one of the ones who was accepting foreign bribes from Russia????
More info on the breakdown on the fines here: https://www.elections.ab.ca/investigations/findings-decisions/administrative-penalties/
5-toe:
Thank for this.
How can “knowingly make false statements on financial docs” only have a fine of $1,000 ?
Pale-Measurement-532:
No kidding. That’s fraud.
Ambitious_List_7793:
Hey Davey, FAFO! I hope your fine pays for several Pride crosswalks! Christofascist and moron.
BohunkfromSK:
I love the implied dream of these eedjits. Take Alberta Back? Back from who? Alberta has had 80yrs of right of centre parties in power (67.2% of governments since AB was a province). Is the right that easily threatened?
Did the brief break of sanity that Notley provided really damage the conservative infrastructure that much? Was it made of spun sugar and balsa wood?
Monkeys and Circus.
badspark1:
Take Crack Alberta, and pretend this isnt dangerous or treason. Should be national news this kind of political crime and a major public discredit to those donors and whoever else they are linked with.
Guilty-Spork343:
So which MLAs will be falling over each other to ingratiate themselves by paying it for him?
Administrative Penalties
| Name | Violation | Penalty Amount | Date Issued | Date Paid/Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Take Back Alberta Political and Election Third Party Advertiser | Section 10.1 of the EFCDA Failure to retain all records for a period of 3 years following the date on which financial reports are required to be filed. | $18,000 | February 4, 2025 | |
| Take Back Alberta Election Third Party Advertiser | Section 44.11(5) of the EFCDA Circumventing the election advertising spending limits. | $22,500 | February 4, 2025 | |
| Take Back Alberta Election Third Party Advertiser | Section 44.201(7) of the EFCDA Acceptance of contributions from outside of Alberta and Canada. | $13,500 | February 4, 2025 | |
| Take Back Alberta Political and Election Third Party Advertiser | Section 44.22(1) of the EFCDA Failure to deposit contributions into appropriate advertising accounts. | $27,000 | February 4, 2025 | |
| Take Back Alberta Political and Election Third Party Advertiser | Section 44.32(2) of the EFCDA Failure to report gross income from any fund-raising function. Section 44.33(1) of the EFCDA Failure to record aggregate amounts of money solicited from persons in attendance at a meeting of $50 or less. | $9,000 | February 4, 2025 | |
| Take Back Alberta Election Third Party Advertiser | Section 44.4(1) of the EFCDA Failure to obtain Loan from a financial institution. | $9,000 | February 4, 2025 | |
| Take Back Alberta Election Third Party Advertiser | Section 44.7(1) of the EFCDA Failure to pay expenses from the appropriate advertising acount. | $13,500 | February 4, 2025 | |
| David Parker Director and CFO, Take Back Alberta | Section 46 of the EFCDA (x3) Knowingly made false statements on quarterly financial reports filed with the Chief Electoral Officer. | $4,500 | February 4, 2025 | |
| David Parker Director and CFO, Take Back Alberta | Section 46 of the EFCDA Knowingly made a false statement on Election financing report filed with the Chief Electoral Officer. | $2,000 | February 4, 2025 | |
| David Parker Director and CFO, Take Back Alberta | Section 44.201(3) of the EFCDA Knowingly made contributions that exceeded the $30,000 aggregate limit. | $1,000 | February 4, 2025 | |
| Jonathan Heidebrecht CFO, Take Back Alberta | Section 46 of the EFCDA Knowingly made a false statement of quarterly financial reports with the Chief Electoral Officer. | $500 | February 4, 2025 |
Activist group Take Back Alberta and founder fined $120K by elections agency, David Parker insists his pro-UCP group’s political meetings didn’t count as advertising, vows to fight back by Jason Markusoff, CBC News, Feb 04, 2025
Elections Alberta has fined the conservative activist group Take Back Alberta and founder David Parker more $120,000 for political financing violations.
The fines, disclosed on the election agency’s website Tuesday, are for more than a dozen violations of Alberta’s election finance law, including circumventing spending limits, accepting contributions from outside Alberta and Canada, and knowingly making false statements in a financial report to the chief electoral officer.
The agency does not release the reasons for its penalties, or comment on them.
But Parker told CBC News that investigators disagreed with his insistence that his group’s meetings and his speeches about the United Conservative Party (UCP) and NDP throughout Alberta didn’t amount to political advertising.
“If I can’t express my dislike for a political figure at my own meetings from my own group, that is word-of-mouth advertised, then we don’t live in a democracy anymore,” Parker said Tuesday in an interview.
The group and its founder have 30 days to pay the fines, or they have the option of appealing in court. Parker said he’ll fight the penalties but hasn’t yet decided how he’ll do that.
Wanna bet he won’t pay? Or, the shitty white supremacist will ask betrayer of Canada Danielle Smith to pardon him.
TBA has emerged in recent years as a potent activist movement withinevangelical hate-filled white supremacist misogynistic terrorist bosses of the UCP.
Parker, a former federal and provincial party organizer, helped encourage disaffected Albertans to push then-premier Jason Kenney out of the UCP leadership in 2022. He then rallied party members to elect like-minded activists to the UCP board of directors so TBA could have “control” over the governing party.
Parker has been politically and personally close with Premier Danielle Smith, who was a guest at his 2023 wedding. But she had cut ties after some of his inflammatory social media remarks, and he campaigned against her UCP leadership review last fall, where she won resounding support.
TBA is registered as a political and election third-party advertiser, a designation that allows it to promote and oppose provincial parties and candidates, but also requires it to report its donations and donor names for all such activities.
The group and Parker, its chief financial officer, had not submitted financial reports in 2023 or 2024, according to the Elections Alberta financial portal, despite Parker’s many speaking events and advocacy efforts within the UCP.
“My claim is we did no political advertising. Their claim is the town halls were political advertising,” Parker said Tuesday.
“Nobody who gave money to Take Back Alberta was donating to political advertising. They were under the assumption that’s a funny way to say they were conned they were donating to operations.”
Elections Alberta found that Parker knowingly contributed over the $30,000 annual limit to his own third-party advertiser.
His organization landed in court last year, as Parker had resisted disclosing documents Elections Alberta had demanded as part of an investigation into financial irregularities.
The Edmonton Journal reported that he was fined $5,000 plus legal costs in August after failing to meet a deadline to disclose donor names to the agency.
In a letter to TBA supporters last summer, Parker said the group had $680,000 in revenues in 2023 and $688,225 in 2022 — although that year the group reported only $22,309 in contributions.
In July, Parker called the Elections Alberta investigation a “witch hunt by unelected bureaucrats” in a social media post.Pathetic dweeb, trying to sound like Adolf Orange. Why are fascists such shitty copy cats?
Parker was personally fined $7,500, while the group Take Back Alberta was fined $112,500. Jonathan Heidebrecht, the group’s former chief financial officer, was fined $500 for a false statement in a quarterly financial report.
Third-party advertiser Take Back Alberta fined more than $100K by Elections Alberta, The seven fines totalling $[120,500] against the political group include accepting contributions ***from outside Alberta and Canada*** and circumventing election advertising spending limits by Lisa Johnson with files from Matthew Scace, CP, The Canadian Press, Feb 04, 2025, Calgary Herald
Take Back Alberta, the third-party advertiser that made headlines for its role in the high-profile ouster of former premier Jason Kenney, has been fined more than $100,000 by Elections Alberta.
The body that oversees provincial election spending and voting rules has fined Take Back Alberta, and its founder David Parker, for a range of violations from breaking fundraising rules to improper bookkeeping.
The seven fines totalling $[120,000] against the political group include accepting contributions from outside Alberta and Canada and circumventing election advertising spending limits.
Parker is being fined a total of $7,500 for three violations, including for knowingly making false statements on financial reports, according to a list of the administrative penalties published on Elections Alberta’s website.
The fines come after Elections Alberta took Parker to court last year to turn over the names of his donors as part of its investigation.
Elections Alberta told The Canadian Press Tuesday it is prohibited from commenting publicly on investigations, and that election law does not allow it to provide copies of its reports.
Parker could not be immediately reached for comment.
Kenney garnered only 51 per cent of party support in 2022, prompting his resignation and a leadership race that would crown Premier Danielle Smith as the leader of the governing United Conservative Party.
Billing itself as a grassroots political movement, Take Back Alberta supported Smith’s leadership bid, although Smith has since publicly distanced herself from Parker.
Jonathan Heidebrecht, listed by Elections Alberta as Take Back Alberta’s chief financial officer, is also being fined $500 for knowingly making a false statement.
*Ku Klux Klan aka Take Back Alberta evolved into a domestic terrorist organization
The face of christofascism in Canada: Canada destroying Preston Manning, David Parker, Canada hating Steve Harper (head of fascist terror group IDU), Adolf Orange shadow president of Elon Musk, Quisling Big Oil Dildo Danielle Smith, wanna be Trump Pierre Poilievre.
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