Campaign spending limits lower in the North than many southern cities – CBC
Aug 06, 2015
Spending limits meant to reflect ‘what it would cost to reach out and contact the electors’
Elections Canada released spending limits for each federal riding Tuesday.
That’s the amount each candidate’s campaign can spend between now and election day. The limits for Northern ridings range from $202,000 in Nunavut to over $213,000 in the NWT. Yukon’s limit is a little more than $209,000.
But those limits are lower than many urban ridings in the south, even though northern candidates have greater distances to travel. That’s because, according to Elections Canada’s logic, it simply costs more to reach more voters.
