Municipal election donation rules under the microscope
Posted Apr 24, 2013 11:44 am.
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Questions are being raised about loolpholes in the Local Authorities Election act, allowing people to exceed donation limits.
A political scientist at Mount Royal University says right now a person or company is only allowed to donate 5,000 dollars to a candidate and that is also suppose to include gifts in kind as well.
Duane Bratt tells 660News, the recent release of a leaked video by Global TV from a builders meeting last fall suggests a number of developers did exceed those limits.
Bratt says the province should accept some of the blame, for failing to act following the Daryl Katz donation controversy following the last Alberta eleciton.
The owner of the Edmonton Oilers made a $400 thouasnd dollar donation to the Tories under the impression the donation was on-behalf of more than a dozen others so he did not exceed the $30 thousand dollar donation limit to a political party.
A spokesperson with Alberta Municipal Affairs tells 660News there will not be a review of the limit of election campaign doantions until after the October vote.
