Political Financing Handbook for Leadership Contestants and Financial Agents – December 2019 – draft guideline OGI 2020-01
This document is Elections Canada's draft guideline OGI 2020-01.
Table of Contents
- About This Document
- 1. Reference Tables and Timelines
- Starting the leadership contestant's campaign
- Important deadlines for the leadership contestant's campaign
- Role and appointment process—financial agent
- Role and appointment process—leadership campaign agents
- Role and appointment process—auditor
- Withdrawal of a leadership contestant
- Closing the leadership contestant's campaign
- Limits on contributions, loans and loan guarantees
- Transfers—types and rules
- Important reminders for leadership contestants, financial agents and leadership campaign agents
- 2. Contributions
- What is a contribution?
- What is commercial value?
- What is a directed contribution?
- Who can contribute?
- Limits on contributions, loans and loan guarantees to a leadership contestant
- Volunteer labour is not a contribution
- Sponsorship or advertising at a political event is a contribution
- Accepting and recording contributions
- Accepting contributions of cryptocurrency
- Issuing contribution receipts
- Recording directed contributions
- Determining the date a contribution is made
- Recording anonymous contributions
- Remitting anonymous contributions that cannot be accepted
- Ineligible contributions
- Returning ineligible or non-compliant contributions
- 3. Loans
- 4. Transfers
- 5. Other Cash Inflows
- 6. Fundraising
- Typical fundraising activities
- 7. Leadership Campaign Expenses
- 8. Leadership Contest Expenses
- Typical leadership contest expenses
- Use of parliamentary resources
- 9. Leadership Contestant's Personal Expenses
- Typical personal expenses
- 10. Leadership Contestant's Travel and Living Expenses
- Typical travel and living expenses
- 11. Leadership Contestant's Litigation Expenses
- 12. Other Leadership Campaign Expenses
- Typical "other" expenses
- 13. Reporting
- 14. Managing Unpaid Claims and Loans
- 15. Disposing of Surplus