From the Saturday Telegram, Russell Wangersky’s column:
In fact, [chief electoral officer Paul] Reynolds defends the spending by saying that even if the under-the-table cash were added to the declared funding, "neither the PC candidate nor the party would have exceeded the legislated expenditure limits for the electoral district in that byelection."
That's not the point.
The point is how did $3,000 in spending end up off the books, and could there be other off-book spending in the province's elections?
Could there be? A look at the information already in the public domain suggests there was.
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