联邦总理Happer和两名议员赞助超过限额

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Harper, 2 other MPs exceeded donations limit
7 j! ]- O9 z8 v: s5 o* \Wednesday, December 27, 2006  The Canadian Press

经过了几个月强烈的否认后，联邦保守党已经悄悄的承认了它有成千上万的赞助没有向公众报道。
$ @, P: Q# v' O+ m6 ~0 v0 J这意味着至少三名保守党成员—包括联邦总理Stephen Harper – 去年的赞助捐款超过法律的限额。
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  |. g! ^# O, q  Y- @  l% S0 }[CBC News] After months of heated denials, the federal Conservative party has quietly admitted it failed to publicly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of donations.
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. ?/ e/ w3 n0 }0 N5 IThat means at least three party members — including Prime Minister Stephen Harper — donated more than the legal limit last year.
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Last Thursday, the party filed a revised financial report for 2005 with Elections Canada, acknowledging that it did not report delegate fees collected for its national convention that year as donations, contrary to political financing laws.
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6 T& @7 b) _/ y6 Z/ W6 o9 y! ]" E/ b2 sIn the revised report, the Conservatives have "reclassified revenue related to the 2005 convention," disclosing an additional $539,915 in previously unreported donations, an extra $913,710 in "other revenue," and an additional $1.45 million in "other expenses."

' a( @/ @+ \) F7 Y" K5 N+ x8 eThe report does not explain what constitutes "other revenue" or "other expenses." Moreover, the party reports almost $700,000 in previously undisclosed transfers from riding associations, presumably accounting for ridings that helped subsidize the cost of attending the Montreal policy convention for their delegates.
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