If I could shed some light on that, that was in the days when businesses were still allowed to donate money to political parties. In my opinion, that's what influenced that choice. Nobody wanted to tick off the private sector, which could in fact be your biggest benefactor politically, by exposing how much money they were spending, whether it was for the tar sands or big tobacco or big pharma or whatever. Now we don't have to worry about it any more. We've cleansed one part of our system by not allowing them to buy influence through political campaign donations. But we haven't fixed the other side. They can buy influence through massive, sweeping lobbying campaigns that overwhelm the poor minister sitting in the steam room at the members' gym.
On October 27th, 2009. See this statement in context.