After Scheer’s expenses controversy, Conservatives want party to stop spending donor dollars on personal expenses

The federal Alberta riding of Edmonton West has proposed a constitutional amendment demanding that party money only be used to ‘advance the political and electoral interests of the party.’

Gordon Elliott, left, is seeking a national council position from Alberta, and Bruce Yu is running for the national council from Ontario. Both support the Edmonton West riding's constitutional amendment that would require donor money to only be used for the advancement of the party's electoral and political interests. Photographs courtesy of Bruce You and Gordon Elliott

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BY ABBAS RANA

March 1, 2021

In the aftermath of outgoing Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s expenses controversy in 2019, members of an Edmonton Conservative riding association have proposed a constitutional amendment demanding that the party not use donor money to subsidize personal expenses of any party member, and use it...

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