{"id":986,"date":"2006-06-28T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=986"},"modified":"2006-06-28T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T23:54:00","slug":"karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20060628\/tories_donations_060628\/20060628?hub=TopStories\">Tories may have taken $2M in illicit donations<br \/><\/a>Updated Wed. Jun. 28 2006<br \/>6:13 PM ET<br \/>Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The Conservative party may have illegally accepted millions in unreported donations last year because it didn&#8217;t understand political financing laws.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the startling conclusion drawn from testimony given to a Senate committee by the Harper administration&#8217;s point man on cleaning up government.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Board President John Baird has told the committee that his party did not consider fees paid to attend its March 2005 policy convention to be political contributions.<\/p>\n<p>But the Elections Act stipulates that convention fees do constitute a donation.<\/p>\n<p>The Tories&#8217; 2005 convention was attended by about 2,900 party members, who paid a regular fee of $600 each, although discounts were available for some.<\/p>\n<p>That means the party stood to rake in as much as $1.7 million, all or some of which should have been reported to Elections Canada as donations.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet this would have gotten more than minor story status had it been the Liberals involved in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tories may have taken $2M in illicit donationsUpdated Wed. Jun. 28 20066:13 PM ETCanadian Press OTTAWA &#8212; The Conservative party may have illegally accepted millions in unreported donations last year because it didn&#8217;t understand political financing laws. That&#8217;s the startling conclusion drawn from testimony given to a Senate committee by the Harper administration&#8217;s point man [&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-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}