Elections Canada files final argument

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Elections Canada files final argument

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090428/...l/tories_in_out

"Senior officials in the party appear to have determined that the party's legal spending limit would not allow it to spend as much as it wished on its national advertising program," says the brief by lawyer Barbara McIsaac.

The 64-page document cites party emails, as well as memos and email correspondence with the agency that placed the ads, to argue the expenses were actually incurred by the party rather than 67 candidates who claimed them as their own.

The court submission calls the ad program a "scheme." Party headquarters transferred tens of thousands of dollars into the campaigns of individual candidates, who had agreed beforehand to transfer the money out of their campaign accounts back to the party as payment for their purported share of the ad costs.

The so-called "regional" ads were all booked by Retail Media, the firm the party used to place its national ads.

Guess we are getting down to the brass tacks.

Still wondering how it will all play out.

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Hmmm...all these things going on at once aren't really in the the Conservative Party's favour.

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Since the Tories keep saying they did nothing wrong I like to know if they did it the same way in this last election and if not why, if it wasn't illegal.