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Canada’s federal election rules violated by nuclear company SNC-Lavalin

SNC-Lavalin violated election rules with campaign donations, commissioner rules
CBC News  September 8, 2016  The federal elections commissioner says SNC-Lavalin has entered into a compliance agreement for making nearly $118,000 in contributions that violated the Canada Elections Act over a seven-year period.

Problematic contributions made between 2004 and 2011 The Canadian Press Sep 08, 2016 

The federal elections commissioner says SNC-Lavalin has entered into a compliance agreement for making nearly $118,000 in contributions that violated the Canada Elections Act over a seven-year period.

The commissioner says the contributions were made to the Liberals and Conservatives between March 9, 2004, and May 1, 2011.

In the past, CBC has reported on one instance of something similar, in which a number of SNC-Lavalin executives and their families donated $15,000 to the campaign of a conservative candidate in the 2011 election.

The commissioner’s report Thursday singles out almost $118,000 in contributions made to federal parties and subsequently reimbursed, including:

• Liberal Party of Canada: $83,534.51;
• Various registered riding associations of the Liberal Party of Canada: $13,552.13;
• Contestants in the Liberal Party of Canada’s 2006 leadership race: $12,529.12;
• Conservative Party of Canada: $3,137.73; and
• Various registered riding associations and candidates of the Conservative Party of Canada: $5,050.00.
• According to the compliance agreement, the commissioner says former senior executives with the Montreal-based engineering firm solicited employees to make political contributions and in some cases, those employees were reimbursed with false personal expenses, fictitious bonuses or other benefits……….http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/snc-lavalin-campaign-donations-1.3752869?cmp=rss

September 9, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Canada, politics