Toronto Sun(!): Tory transparency fails

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During the general election of 2006, candidate Lawrence Cannon, now our foreign affairs minister, authorized funds from his local campaign to be used to buy television advertising in the Quebec City market — nearly 500 km away.

In the same campaign, Conservative candidate David Leskowski, running what would be a losing campaign in Thunder Bay, Ont., also allowed money from his local campaign to buy TV ads in the Toronto market — nearly 1,400 km away.

In fact, this happened more than 60 times in that election campaign. Local campaigns bought TV ads that were often never seen by potential voters.

This scheme was orchestrated by the national Conservative campaign. The national campaign had already hit its federally-mandated spending limit even though it still had buckets of cash the beavers in its back rooms were keen to use to help Stephen Harper beat Paul Martin.

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