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Late Filing Penalties
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Home >  Campaign Financing > Late Filing Penalties

There are consequences to not filing a financial return within the specified time frame.

Late Filing Penalties

If an elected candidate fails to file an election return, the Chief Electoral Officer must send a written notice of the failure to file to the Speaker of the House. Until the matter is cleared up, the candidate will not be allowed to sit in the House.

If an unsuccessful candidate fails to file an election return, that person will not be eligible to run as a candidate in any provincial election up to and including the next general election.

Late Filing Fees

There is a late filing fee of $25/day when a return is not filed by the filing deadline or the extended deadline. This fee applies to:

  • annual party returns
  • candidate and party election returns
  • loan balance statements (candidates and leadership contestants)
  • campaign deficit returns (candidates and leadership contestants)
  • constituency association returns

If the return or information is filed by a certain date and the appropriate fee paid then there would be no prosecution. [See sections 69.1(1, 2, 3, 4 & 5)]

As of January 2009, The Elections Finances Act [sec 69.1(4.2)] states the Chief Electoral Officer may make late filing fees public. That information is shown below, organized by year.

Year Assessed to Relevant return Party affiliation Late filing
amount
2012 Dustin Hiles 925 - 2012 Campaign Deficit & Loan Status Lib. $750.00
2012 Bidhu Jha 925 - 2012 Campaign Deficit & Loan Status NDP $25.00
2012 Desmond Penner 925 - 2012 Campaign Deficit & Loan Status PC $50.00
2012 Harold Dyck 925 - 2012 Campaign Deficit & Loan Status GPM $750.00
2011 Deanna Ratt 922 - 2011 Candidate elections return Lib. $75.00
2011 Dwayne Grantham 922 - 2011 Candidate elections return Lib. $100.00
2011 Billy Fuller 922 - 2011 Candidate elections return GPM $250.00
2011 Benji Ostrove 922 - 2011 Candidate elections return Lib. $25.00
2011 John Zasitko 922 - 2011 Candidate elections return Ind. $750.00
2011 Jennifer Lindal 922 - 2011 Candidate elections return Ind. $750.00
2011 Colleen Hunter 922 - 2011 Candidate elections return PC $275.00
2011 Connie Rapko 922 - 2011 Candidate elections return PC $100.00
2009 Kerri Irvin-Ross 925 - 2008 Campaign Deficit & Loan Status NDP $175.00
2009 Jim Maloway 925 - 2008 Campaign Deficit & Loan Status NDP $100.00
2009 David Harper 925 - 2008 Campaign Deficit & Loan Status PC $750.00
2009 Garry Wasylowski 924- 2008 Constituency Association Return PC $450.00
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