Boycott the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) until it stops funding political parties.
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $1180 to the Saskatchewan Party in 2020:
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave nothing to the Saskatchewan NDP in 2020:
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $6380 to the Saskatchewan Party in 2019:
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $603.62 to the Saskatchewan NDP in 2019:
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $3930 to the Saskatchewan Party in 2018:
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $260.80 to the Saskatchewan NDP in 2018:
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $7680 to the Saskatchewan Party in 2017:
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $1567.02 to the Saskatchewan NDP in 2017:
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $4530 to the Saskatchewan Party in 2016:
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $924.32 to the Saskatchewan NDP in 2016:
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $7680 to the Saskatchewan Party in 2015:
https://cdn.elections.sk.ca/finance/E-521%20Saskatchewan%20Party%202015%20As%20Reviewed%20web.pdf
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave nothing to the Saskatchewan NDP in 2015:
https://cdn.elections.sk.ca/finance/NDP%20Party_Fiscal%20Period%20Return_2015_FINAL.pdf
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $2700.70 to the Saskatchewan Party in 2014:
https://cdn.elections.sk.ca/finance/Sask%20Party_Fiscal%20Period%20Return_2014_As%20Reviewed.pdf
I saw that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave nothing to the Saskatchewan NDP in 2014:
https://cdn.elections.sk.ca/finance/NDP_Fiscal%20Period%20Return_2014_As%20Reviewed.pdf
I haven’t checked yet how much, if anything, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave to political parties in previous years.
From 2014 to 2020, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) gave $34,080.70 to the Saskatchewan Party and $3355.76 to the Saskatchewan NDP. The Saskatchewan Party received more than 10 times as much money as the Saskatchewan NDP did from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS). However, neither party should receive a penny from the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS).
In a conversation with Robert McDonald, executive director and registrar of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS), he said that people from APEGS attended dinners hosted by these political parties and APEGS had to pay to attend the dinners, that the Saskatchewan Party charged more than the Saskatchewan NDP for the dinners, and that these dinners were attended for government relations by APEGS, but the money paid by APEGS to attend these dinners was listed as political donations.
I understand that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) wants to do government relations, but it should not be doing government relations in a way that funds the political parties. I have very frequently spoken to provincial, federal, and local politicians and their staff including party leaders and cabinet ministers about countless public policy issues without ever paying a penny to fund a political party. If I can do that, the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) certainly can too. Also, the amount of money that the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) is spending on government relations in these dinners is exorbitant.
Professional engineers and geoscientists are forced to join the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) in Saskatchewan. It’s extremely inappropriate for the money that they are forced to spend on their Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) fees to go to political parties that they oppose. The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) needs to immediately and permanently stop funding the political parties. If the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) has so much money to blow on funding political parties, it should reduce membership fees instead of charging exorbitant fees to join APEGS.
