OTTAWA—Starting Sunday, Canadians will begin to see which third-party groups will be spending money to sway their votes in the upcoming federal election. Those tallies are just for the 78-day election period in 2015. Now, new rules on advertising disclosure will show how much groups are spending in the months before the campaign officially begins. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWBill C-76, the election-reform law passed by Parliament in December, sets limits for third parties of just over $1 million in the “pre-writ period,” and about $500,000 in the 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.

Source: thestar June 29, 2019 18:33 UTC