Liberal Party and Candidates

riding associations: But the transfer data also show how complicated it can be to follow the money in the world of election spending, where funds can move quickly between donors, candidates, local associations, and central parties, according to The Waterloo Record. Liberal Party officials explained that the four B.C. candidates are part of a service, now about a decade old in B.C., where the riding associations ship their money to a central party agency in the province that acts as auditor and administrator. Those amounts, transfered back and forth between the candidates and a central party agency in British Columbia, helped in areas where the Liberals expected to be in tight races in a region all three parties considered a key campaign battleground. Returns filed with Elections Canada don't always make those transfers clear. The party says that in fact the bulk of that money was raised by the B.C. riding associations but sent to the central service for safekeeping. Those returns make it look like the national party — not associations — sent $225,415 to help Pam Goldsmith-Jones defeat Conservative John Weston in the B.C. riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, and $213,638 in Surrey-Newton where Sukh Dhaliwal defeated NDP MP Jinny Sims. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.