NDP files complaint against UCP, Jason Kenney and third-party advertiser | Canada Live News

NDP files complaint against UCP, Jason Kenney and third-party advertiser | Canada Live News

Richardson said the Shaping Alberta Future website states that its political action committee (PAC) is a way to avoid election financing rules, which now prohibit corporate and union donations to political parties. The PAC tells donors it will collect money to help pay for non-political advertising expenses such as overhead. He also said the PAC is working "entirely for the purpose of doing the work of a political party," which is contrary to election financing laws. He then quoted the Shaping Alberta's Future website, which tells potential donors: "One hundred per cent of donor contributions are spent by us on efforts to promote Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party." The PAC's activities "are not minor or innocent errors being committed in the course of navigating new rules," Richardson wrote in his letter to the election commissioner. "The activities are self-described as a deliberate strategy to avoid the limitations of the elections financing law.