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Table 2: Details of Transfer Payment Programs (TPPs)
| 1. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Reimbursements to candidates, parties and auditors, and allowances to eligible political parties (new political financing provisions of the Canada Elections Act) | |
| 2. Start Date: Ongoing | 3. End Date: Ongoing |
| 4. Description: Elections Canada’s role is to administer the Canada Elections
Act, which has three main objectives: fairness, transparency and participation. To promote fairness and participation, the Act provides for reimbursement of election expenses to candidates and parties, and a subsidy for certain auditors’ fees. A candidate who is elected or received at least 10 percent of the valid votes cast in an election is entitled to a reimbursement of 60 percent of the election expenses limit. A registered party is eligible for reimbursement of election expenses if the party obtained 2 percent or more of the total valid votes cast nationally or 5 percent of the valid votes cast in electoral districts where the party endorsed candidates. The Act provides for a subsidy, equal to the lesser of $1,500 or 3 percent of the candidate’s election expenses, but a minimum of $250, to be paid out of public funds directly to the candidate’s auditor. A registered association that has, in a fiscal period, accepted contributions or incurred expenses of $5,000 or more in total (less transfers to other political entities) must obtain an audit report that provides an opinion as to whether the Registered Association Financial Transactions Return fairly presents the information contained in the financial records on which it is based. When an audit of this return is required, the Act provides for a subsidy of a maximum of $1,500 for that audit. This amount is paid out of public funds directly to the electoral district association’s auditor after the Chief Electoral Officer has received the return, the auditor’s report and other documents that must accompany the return. For eligible political parties, the Act also provides for the payment of a quarterly allowance according to the following formula: a registered political party that obtained at least 2 percent of the total valid votes cast in a general election, or 5 percent of the valid votes cast in the ridings where it presented candidates, has the right to a quarterly allowance that is calculated as the product of $0.4375 multiplied by the number of valid votes cast in the most recent general election preceding that quarter and the inflation adjustment factor that is in effect for that quarter. |
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| 5. Strategic Outcomes: To maintain and strengthen the recognition among Canadians, whether they are electors or other participants in the electoral process, that we administer the Canada Elections Act in a fair, consistent, effective and transparent manner. | |
| 6. Results Achieved: In accordance with the Act, Elections Canada issued election expense reimbursements to eligible candidates, audit subsidies to candidates’ and registered electoral district associations’ auditors and quarterly allowances to eligible registered parties. | |
| ($ thousands) |
7. Actual Spending 2006–07 | 8. Actual Spending 2007–08 | 9. Planned Spending 2008–09 | 10. Total Authorities 2008–09 | 11. Actual Spending 2008–09 | 12. Variance(s) Between Columns 9 and 11 |
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| 13. General elections and by-elections | ||||||
| Candidates | (684) | 158 | 27,715 | 27,715 | (27,715) | |
| Political parties | (816) | 4 | 29,182 | 29,182 | (29,182) | |
| Candidates’ auditors | (246) | 51 | 1,269 | 1,269 | (1,269) | |
| 14. Quarterly allowances | ||||||
| Allowance to eligible political parties | 27,452 | 28,016 | 28,768 | 28,151 | 28,151 | 617 |
| 15. Electoral district associations’ auditors | ||||||
| Electoral district associations’ auditors | 879 | 804 | 1,000 | 825 | 825 | 175 |
| 16. Total TPP | 26,585 | 29,033 | 29,768 | 87,142 | 87,142 | (57,374) |