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RSS FeedsTories rev up fundraising machine with big-ticket events featuring Premier Doug Ford, energy minister
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15 january 2019 17:19:59

 
Tories rev up fundraising machine with big-ticket events featuring Premier Doug Ford, energy minister
(The Star Movies)
 


Premier Doug Ford’s governing Progressive Conservatives are revving up their money machine.After loosening campaign finance laws introduced by former premier Kathleen Wynne following a 2016 Star exposé of Liberal fundraising, the Tories are banking on a cash windfall.Ford will headline the $1,250-a-plate Toronto Leader’s Dinner on Feb. 27 at the Toronto Congress Centre on Dixon Road in Etobicoke.Read more:Hearing into whether ombudsman should examine Taverner appointment won’t be fast tracked, judge saysRevitalize Ontario Place but don’t raze it, residents say at rally for waterfront parkFate of GM’s Oshawa plant on the table as premier, federal innovation minister head to DetroitNext Tuesday, Energy Minister Greg Rickford will speak at an $800-a-ticket cocktail party at the Albany Club on King Street East.The two events are the first big-ticket fundraisers since the Conservatives, who defeated the Liberals last June, amended the previous campaign finance legislation in the Restoring Trust, Transparency and Accountability Act.In a message to supporters, PC Ontario Fund chair Tony Miele said the Tories “need your help to build up our party’s financial resources as quickly as possible.”Miele touted the premier’s dinner as “the biggest fundraiser in our party’s history.” Last Friday, Ford attended a modest $25-a-plate spaghetti dinner for 200 supporters at Kitchener’s Bingemans Conference Centre.Under Wynne’s restrictions, all MPPs, candidates, and staff were forbidden from attending any event where money was raised for political parties.But last November Finance Minister Vic Fedeli changed the law to enable politicians and their staff to go to fundraisers. That had been the case prior to Wynne’s reforms almost three years ago amid accusations of the Liberals accepting “cash-for-access.”Green Leader Mike Schreiner said Tuesday he was “disappointed” ...


 
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