Faith Goldy, a far-right commentator who has promoted white-supremacy, broke election spending laws during her unsuccessful 2018 run for mayor of Toronto, an auditor has found.
Chartered accountant William Molson, tasked by a city committee with reviewing Goldy’s election expenses after a citizen complaint, made the findings in a report made public Friday.
Compliance audit committee members will review the findings at a Feb. 8 hearing. They could vote to ask a provincial prosecutor to consider legal action against her for breaching Ontario’s election act in multiple ways alleged in the audit.
Molson cited apparent infractions including:
- Failing to report $86,398.49 in campaign-period expenses.
- Failing to report $56,117.95 in contributions by non-Ontario residents, who could not legally donate to her mayoral campaign, before the end of 2018.
- Accepting and failing to report $12,365.99 after Dec. 31, 2018, without requesting an extension of the legal campaign period.
- Accepting a total of $101,118 from ineligible donors outside Ontario, after a video appeal to “defenders of democracy worldwide” for donations to fund her legal challenge to force a television station to broadcast her campaign ads.
- Exceeding by $56,388.63 the maximum of $25,000 that a candidate can donate to their own campaign.
Goldy, who has denied any wrongdoing related to her campaign expenses, “was generally not co-operative in responding to requests for information,” from the auditor, Molson wrote. (more...)
Far-right Toronto mayoral candidate Faith Goldy breached election finance laws, auditor finds
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