Money In Politics Campaign

Money in Politics Campaign
Advocating for stronger and more democratic political donation and spending laws

Money to the Ref??

We don't allow it in sports - but in politics it's legal!
Please help now to get big money out of Canadian politics
ALERT - it is still legal to make secret donations of unlimited amounts of money, products and services to all types of provincial and territorial political candidates, and to federal nomination race and party leadership candidates

Documents produced by the Money in Politics Campaign

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Organizations: Join the nation-wide Money in Politics Coalition by signing on to the 10 Recommendations to Clean Up Canada's Political Finance System

Summary of Third Party Advertising Spending Limits Court Case

ORDER FORM: For the Best Government Money Can't Buy: How to Make Canada's Political Finance System Democratic (June 1999)

Links to Databases of Donations to Canadian Political Parties & Politicians

Democracy Watch has produced the following documents in its Money in Politics Campaign
(newest to oldest)

Donations to Canadian and U.S. Political Parties, Candidates (Both Nomination Race and Election Candidates), Riding Associations and Party Leadership Candidates

Elections Canada (agency that oversees federal Canadian political donations)

Donors to Federal Political Parties, Nomination Race and Election Candidates, Riding Associations, and Party Leadership Candidates (1997 on (but only 2005 on for party leadership candidates) on Elections Canada website)
Enforcement of the federal Canada Elections Act
How to complain about a violation of the federal Canada Elections Act
Elections Canada research documents

Elections Canada's Summary of Canadian Federal, Provincial and Territorial Election Laws (as of May 1, 2008 -- Please note that laws in some jurisdictions may have changed since May 2008)

Donors to Canadian Province of Ontario's Political Parties, Candidates and Leadership Candidates (lists from1995 on at the Elections Ontario website)
Province of Saskatchewan's Political Finance Rules (Elections Saskatchewan website (can also be searched for lists of donors))

Office of the Federal Canadian Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner (agency that oversees and enforces federal Canadian MPs' ethics rules and registeries of gifts to MPs -- See below for details)
Canadian federal Lobbyists' Code of Conduct (see especially November 2009 Guideline on Rule 8 in the Code)
Donations to U.S. Political Parties and Candidates (link is to OpenSecrets.org website)
Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (U.S. organization that tracks developments in government ethics, money in politics and lobbying laws across North America)
Global Integrity (non-governmental organization that, through an international research effort involving local organizations, individuals and journalists, rates countries good governance and anti-corruption systems and democratic processes)

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