Tory fundraising on track to smash 2023 record as Liberal donations, ad spending tick up ‘slowly but surely’: politicos

Conservative pundit and digital ad tracker Cole Hogan says the Liberals may have finally begun to ‘open the tap’ on spending, but are nowhere close to election footing.

The Conservative Party has raised more than $65-million since Pierre Poilievre, second left, became leader in September 2022, including more than $20-million in the first half of 2024, which is $9-million more than the parties of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, illustration by Neena Singhal

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BY STUART BENSON

August 6, 2024

The Conservative Party raised more than $20.5-million in the first half of 2024, outpacing the governing Liberals’ fundraising by more than $13.6-million so far this year, and its own total by this point last year—a record-smashing four quarters for the official oppositi...

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