[getbak]

Originally Posted by Smartcar

The limit is $5,000/year. It may have been donated over a number of years, some sitting aldermen have fundraisers every year.

Yeah, it doesn't break it down, which is why I said it appears to violate the Act.

Here is the link to every candidate's full disclosure statements: http://www.calgary.ca/CA/city-clerks...-Finances.aspx

I haven't looked at them all, but McIver is the only one I've seen who has his broken down by date. He actually has multiple donations from some contributors that exceed $5000 in total, but because they're dated, they all seem to fall within the acceptable time frames. For example, McIver has three separate donations from Carma that exceed $2000, plus a few smaller contributions from Carma, but because they're spread across the three years of the election cycle, they're okay.

The Elections Act doesn't require the disclosure statement to break down the contributions by year, only to show the total received from any one entity over the cycle. If Shane gave Stevenson the $6,000 spread over the three years such that it didn't exceed $5,000 in any one year, that would be fine.

As far as I know, neither Stevenson nor Shane were fined for violating the Elections Act, so it must have been acceptable.



Here's the transcript from the video of what Wenzel said regarding Druh Farrell, which appears to be the part where he is "admitting that he broke the law":

Uh, I had 13 trucks out, uh, last election delivering signs and assembling them and I got called by, uh, Druh and the elections, uh, because they said I’d given 5000 in cash, so therefore my trucks that were out delivering put me over the 5000 and they were gonna take us to court so, obviously, Druh and I don’t see eye-to-eye

This is in regards to Kevin Taylor's campaign against Farrell.