Democracy Watch’s Duff Conacher says $3,450 political donation cap ‘unfair, unethical, and undemocratic’

A recent study by the government watchdog found the median donation between 2016 and 2022 was just $77, and only one per cent of contributors gave the maximum annual contribution of $3,450.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland addresses the Liberal Party's top donors at the Laurier Club garden party held at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa on June 13, 2022. That year, more than 45 per cent of the Liberals' $14.6-million fundraising total was brought in by the eight per cent of donors who gave more than $1,000.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

March 6, 2024

Canada's current $3,450-per-person cap on campaign donations is “unfair, unethical, and undemocratic,” says Democracy Watch’s Duff Conacher after his group's analysis of the main federal parties' yearly donations found that only one per cent of those who give max out t...

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