A leaf out of the scandalous U.S. political money-raising machine. 
Corporations typically have every officer write a separate check for 
whatever the legal limit is, and deliver these individual checks in 
bundles.  Tom DeLay, may he rest in jail, was only the most 
egregiously effective of these campaign fund-raisers.



>(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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