Conservatives wilfully exceeded expense limit

The Hill Times:

Parliament Hill — Elections Canada investigators have gathered a “voluminous” amount of evidence backing charges the elections agency laid last week against two Conservative Senators and party officials over allegations they used an elaborate money-transfer scheme to skirt the party's national campaign spending limit for the 2006 election, a spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada says.

Spokesperson Dan Brien told The Hill Times he could not discuss the evidence Elections Canada investigators collected during their inquiry, which began in 2007 and included an April, 2008, search-warrant raid of the party’s headquarters by RCMP officers and Elections Canada investigators, or the reasons behind the decision to prosecute now.

“The prosecutors have said that the evidence is quite voluminous,” Mr. Brien said.

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