Tories may have taken illegal donations

[CHIMO]

Tories may have taken illegal donations

OTTAWA — The Conservative party may have illegally accepted millions in unreported donations last year because it didn't understand political financing laws.

That's the startling conclusion drawn from testimony given to a Senate committee by the Harper administration's point man on cleaning up government.

Treasury Board President John Baird told the committee late Tuesday that his party did not consider fees paid to attend its March 2005 policy convention to be political contributions.

In fact, the Elections Act stipulates that convention fees do constitute a donation "to the extent that the person paying the fee is not receiving a good or service that has any commercial value beyond its political value."

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[daleo]

1. So, once more harper is a Harper-crite

You knew this was the case. I wonder how the election would have turned out if this news had become public earlier.