(Canada has new laws that corporations cannot donate to election
campaighns.  Individuals are limited to $5,400 each.  So a drug company
magnate had each of his children donate 5,000!  These included two 11 year
olds!  Wonder why the Liberals got tufed out?)

-- dr


Volpe returns money from young donors
Thu, 01 Jun 2006

CBC News
Liberal leadership candidate Joe Volpe has returned $27,000 in donations
from five donors under the age of 18 whose fathers are current and former
executives with drug companies.

Joe Volpe is seeking to become the new leader of the Liberal Party of
Canada. (Tom Hanson/Canadian Press)   The donors included the 11-year-old
twins and 14-year-old son of former Apotex Inc. vice-president Allen
Shechtman.

Volpe's spokesman Corey Hobbs said no rules were broken, and returning the
money is simply a way to avoid misperceptions.

"Let's be clear here," Hobbs said. "All the donations for our campaign have
been in compliance with the law."

The federal Elections Act specifies that companies cannot make donations to
leadership campaigns, and sets a limit of $5,400 for donations from
individuals.

There is no age limit for donors. But the Elections Act makes it an offence
to make a donation that actually comes from another person or to act "in
collusion" with others to get around the act's limitations.

NDP member of Parliament Pat Martin filed an official complaint about the
donations on Monday, asking elections commissioner Raymond Landry to
investigate whether an attempt had been made to circumvent the Elections
Act.

Volpe, a member of Parliament from Toronto, is one of 11 candidates in the
race to succeed former prime minister Paul Martin

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