When Brad Wall rolled through the Calgary Petroleum Club's wood-paneled walls on June 8, he got the headlines he wanted.

"We're in the middle of a battle and frankly we haven't been winning too many battles," said Wall about the oil and gas industry in a quote that made the rounds.

But the mainstream media didn't really clue in into as to why Wall was coming through Calgary. It was a fundraising pitch. And make no mistake -- Brad Wall is an incredibly successful out-of-province fundraiser.

The data on campaign donations is publicly available but it's a scan of a printout of a spreadsheet. It needs some work to be turned into something that's usable. We downloaded the last nine years of corporate donations returns for the Saskatchewan Party and used optical character recognition to build a spreadsheet so we could analyze the results and figure out where Wall's corporate donations actually came from. You can search the database by clicking here.

Weak election finance laws can have a toxic effect on the political process.

Since 2006 the Saskatchewan Party has raised $3,091,356.85 from out-of-province sources. More than $2 million of that came from Alberta. And that doesn't include money raised for the 2016 Saskatchewan election, which won't be available to look at until 2017.

This is for a province with a population of just over a million people. And only Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island accept out-of-province political donations. While Alberta just recently got corporate and union money out of provincial politics, it figured out 39 years ago that accepting out-of-province donations probably wasn't the best idea.

Tom Chambers was a Progressive Conservative MLA who rose in the Alberta legislature on May 13, 1977 to speak to Bill 24, the Election Finances and Contributions Disclosure Act:

"It is our view that the people of Alberta feel quite strongly on the subject of outside influence in our province and on our political system. Surely a political party in this province should survive on its own merits and with the support of the people of Alberta."

Read 39 years later, that's quite a rebuke to Saskatchewan's lax election finance laws. Not only are out-of-province donations OK in Brad Wall's Saskatchewan, but so are corporate and union donations. There are no donation limits of any kind, and out-of-country corporate donations are allowed as long as that corporation has a Canadian presence.

It really is the Wild West out in Saskatchewan.