联邦总理Happer和两名议员赞助超过限额

小曲

Harper, 2 other MPs exceeded donations limit
Wednesday, December 27, 2006  The Canadian Press

- L- I4 G& g; L* C& A4 L& g经过了几个月强烈的否认后，联邦保守党已经悄悄的承认了它有成千上万的赞助没有向公众报道。
& f* b; r$ O4 K( S: ~这意味着至少三名保守党成员—包括联邦总理Stephen Harper – 去年的赞助捐款超过法律的限额。
。。。
2 y; K: ?+ c" L& H# h
) i% ~$ j! P' [# e: X[CBC News] After months of heated denials, the federal Conservative party has quietly admitted it failed to publicly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of donations.
! m6 y* Q9 O" y. C
! _2 O  L, I# E. H  P0 ~+ tThat means at least three party members — including Prime Minister Stephen Harper — donated more than the legal limit last year.
7 K( c, D) Y: g5 B1 S
Last Thursday, the party filed a revised financial report for 2005 with Elections Canada, acknowledging that it did not report delegate fees collected for its national convention that year as donations, contrary to political financing laws.
3 k& O5 U& r- x2 d$ [. c
In the revised report, the Conservatives have "reclassified revenue related to the 2005 convention," disclosing an additional $539,915 in previously unreported donations, an extra $913,710 in "other revenue," and an additional $1.45 million in "other expenses."
# Z! Q! w2 W$ ~( ?
9 x/ M) D( ^, ^+ v8 H: T9 ZThe report does not explain what constitutes "other revenue" or "other expenses." Moreover, the party reports almost $700,000 in previously undisclosed transfers from riding associations, presumably accounting for ridings that helped subsidize the cost of attending the Montreal policy convention for their delegates.