Starting Sunday, Canadians will begin to see which third-party groups will be spending money to sway their votes in the upcoming federal election. Now, new rules on advertising disclosure will show how much groups are spending in the months before the campaign officially begins. At least one union group will be trying to reach that limit, and has already spent on ads prior to the start of the pre-election period. The limits on spending in any given electoral district were particularly notable, Rowlinson said, because it made buying ads in urban centres difficult. Canadian Union of Postal Workers — $208,572.46The postal-workers’ union spent big in dozens of ridings across the country in 2015, with most of those dollars going to election merchandise like buttons and signs.

Source: National Post June 29, 2019 18:52 UTC