{"id":1491,"date":"2007-08-24T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2007-08-24T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T15:56:00","slug":"the-conservative-party-is-not-corrupt-the-conservative-party-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1491","title":{"rendered":"The Conservative Party is not Corrupt. The Conservative Party is not&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><strong>Tories broke regulations on election finances, Liberals say<\/strong><br \/>GLORIA GALLOWAY<br \/>From Friday&#8217;s Globe and Mail<br \/>August 24, 2007 at 4:02 AM EDT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">OTTAWA \u2014 The Liberals accused the federal Conservatives yesterday of exceeding election spending limits by more than a million dollars in the final days of the 2006 campaign by passing off national advertising costs as money spent by local candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Elections Canada is now locked in a court battle with 37 of the candidates who want the government &#8211; which returns 60 per cent of the election expenses of candidates who get at least 10 per cent of the votes in their riding &#8211; to reimburse them for the costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Barbara McIsaac, a lawyer for the chief electoral officer, says in a court document that they are not entitled to the money because what the Conservatives call a &#8220;regional media buy&#8221; was &#8220;not an expense of the candidates who claimed it but an expense of the party.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc demanded at a news conference that the Conservatives open their books to both the public and Elections Canada,<br \/>&#8220;The Conservative Party appears to have perhaps exceeded the national campaign spending limits by perhaps over a million dollars,&#8221; Mr. LeBlanc said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tories broke regulations on election finances, Liberals sayGLORIA GALLOWAYFrom Friday&#8217;s Globe and MailAugust 24, 2007 at 4:02 AM EDT OTTAWA \u2014 The Liberals accused the federal Conservatives yesterday of exceeding election spending limits by more than a million dollars in the final days of the 2006 campaign by passing off national advertising costs as money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}