Grit leadership candidates find it difficult to clear campaign debts under tight, new financing rules

All leadership contenders are required to file complete accounting reports by the beginning of June.

Former federal Liberal leadership candidates will have to find new donors to help them pay off their cumulative, total and estimated $3-million in debts since any donor who donated $1,100 or more before Dec. 31, 2006, cannot give any more.

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