O’Toole can’t keep promise to return election rebates to Conservative riding associations if there’s a fall or spring federal election, but he will next time

'Ridings will receive the full equivalent of their candidate rebate for every election going forward,' says Cory Hann, the Conservative Party’s director of communications.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, pictured in Ottawa on Sept. 9, 2020, promised during the leadership election that under his leadership all riding associations will be able to keep 100 per cent of the candidate rebate money. The Conservative Fund Canada told riding association presidents that, starting next federal election, all ridings will get all rebates back, but the party can't return the money it clawed back for the 2019 election. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

October 12, 2020

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole won't be able to keep his leadership campaign promise to return candidates' election rebates the party received in 2019 back to the riding associations, the chair of the Conservative Fund told associations across the country, because of the possibility of a fall or s...

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