Electoral Insight - Reform of Election Financing: Canada, Great Britain and the United States

All Issues

May 2002

• The Chief Electoral Officer's Message
  Jean-Pierre Kingsley
  
  
• Election Financing in Canada
  Tim Mowrey and Alain Pelletier
  
  Many reforms have been made at the federal, provincial and territorial levels, but more accountability and transparency is still needed
  
  
• Soft Money, Issue Advocacy and the U.S. Campaign Finance Law
  Richard Briffault
  
  As campaign costs rise dramatically, Congress passes new legislation addressing unregulated donations and the definition of election-related spending
  
  
• The British Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act
  Guy Lachapelle and Céline Roehrig
  
  After a long history of very few rules, Britain's new Act puts stricter controls on some financial donations and their influence, and imposes limits on expenditures
  
  
• Readjustment of Federal Electoral Boundaries
  Herschell Sax
  
  It's that time again. Preparations have begun for the next round of changes resulting from the 2001 census
  
  
• Choice of an Electoral System
  Marc Chénier
  
  An update on challenges to Canada's first-past-the-post system
  
  
• Thérèse Casgrain: Suffragist, First Female Party Leader, and Senator
  Wayne Brown
  
  She led the campaign to get Quebec women the right to vote and became the first woman elected leader of a political party in Canada
  
  
• Electoral News in Brief
  
  
• Electoral Facts
  Wayne Brown and Alain Lalonde
  
  A look at what the parties, candidates and third parties could and did spend in the 2000 and 1997 federal elections