Political Financing Handbook for Candidates and Official Agents (EC 20155) – October 2017 – Archived Content
This document is Elections Canada's archived guideline OGI 2017-01 and is no longer in effect.
An updated version of this document is available in Tools for Candidates.
Table of Contents
- About This Document
- 1. Reference Tables and Timelines
- Starting the candidate's campaign
- Important deadlines for the candidate's campaign
- Role and appointment process—official agent
- Role and appointment process—auditor
- Closing the candidate's campaign
- Limits on contributions, loans and loan guarantees
- Transfers—types and rules
- Important reminders for candidates and their official agents
- 2. Contributions
- What is a contribution?
- What is commercial value?
- Who can contribute?
- Limits on contributions, loans and loan guarantees to a candidate
- Paid leave for a candidate is not a contribution
- Volunteer labour is not a contribution
- Sponsorship or advertising at a political event is a contribution
- Accepting and recording contributions
- Issuing contribution receipts
- Determining the date a contribution is made
- Recording anonymous contributions
- Remitting anonymous contributions that cannot be accepted
- Ineligible contributions
- Returning or remitting ineligible contributions
- 3. Loans
- 4. Transfers
- 5. Other Cash Inflows
- 6. Fundraising
- Typical fundraising activities
- 7. Electoral Campaign Expenses
- 8. Election Expenses
- Typical election expenses
- Use of existing resources
- 9. Candidate's Personal Expenses
- Candidate's personal expense categories
- 10. Other Electoral Campaign Expenses
- Typical "other" expenses
- 11. Working with Other Entities
- Typical shared activities
- 12. Reporting
- 13. Reimbursements and Subsidies
- 14. Managing Unpaid Claims and Loans
- 15. Disposing of Surplus
- 16. By-elections Superseded by a General Election
- How a by-election becomes superseded
- By-election deemed to have taken place
- Appoint an official agent and auditor, and open a bank account
- Limits on contributions, loans and loan guarantees for by-elections
- Limit on election expenses
- Reimbursement of expenses and reporting
- Transfers to the campaign for the general election