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 Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:58 am Post subject: Tories overspent on election by $1M: warrant |
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Tories overspent on election by $1M: warrant
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Tue Apr 22, 2:14 AM
The federal Conservatives are accused of exceeding their campaign spending limit by more than $1 million, and making "false and misleading" statements in their financial returns in the last election, Elections Canada says in the warrant for last week's raid on party headquarters in Ottawa.
According to the documents, Elections Canada alleges the Conservatives overspent on election ads by disguising national ads as local expenses in an elaborate plan that involved the participation of 67 candidates - including four cabinet ministers.
The affidavit, signed by Elections Canada investigator Robert Lamothe, said this scheme allowed the party "to spend more than $1 million over and above" the legal campaign limit of $18.3 million set out under the Canada Elections Act.
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TECO
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:14 am Post subject: |
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| why can't they spend as much as they want on getting elected - who sets the limit? elections canada? |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:11 am Post subject: |
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| TECO wrote: |
| why can't they spend as much as they want on getting elected - who sets the limit? elections canada? |
Yes, there is a spending limit. Many countries have some kind of spending limit. Anyway, in Canada, politicians don't spend the kind of money you see spent in the U.S. I don't think that's a bad thing, and I think if the others were outspent when the law said that shouldn't have happened then Harper shouldn't have. It is interesting that the Conservatives won due to the Liberal Party being accused of corruption when it came to money spent in Quebec. |
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