The issue is quite simple. The Conservative Party is alleged to have developed a scheme that may have shuffled more than $1 million in advertising money between itself and Conservative candidates, boosting candidate expenses by putting some of the national campaign costs on their books and qualifying, as I have stated earlier, for them to have larger Elections Canada rebates at the end of their election.
We all know that Elections Canada has rejected some of the expense claims filed by the Conservative candidates, stating that the national advertising campaign expense should have gone to the national campaign and not to these individuals. Should Elections Canada's decision stand, the national Conservative campaign could be forced to bring the cost of those ads into their books, which potentially could push their campaign over its legal spending limit, in violation of the Canada Elections Act. This is according to the Ottawa Citizen article dated August 25, 2007.
As I've mentioned earlier, these are serious allegations, and again, they are not made against the Liberal Party, the Bloc Québécois, or the New Democratic Party, but these are against the Conservative Party of Canada. The only party that Elections Canada is having trouble with is the Conservative Party of Canada.