Canadian Federal Election 2019

[jcole]

All I know is that a 40 day campaign sounds like Heaven on Earth!!

[Pam]

All I know is that a 40 day campaign sounds like Heaven on Earth!!

Amen to that. I would be in favor of time limits and spending limits on US campaigns.

[jcole]

I remember, a long time ago, when the campaigns didn't start the week after the Inauguration. Or maybe that just SEEMS like a long time ago

Amen to that. I would be in favor of time limits and spending limits on US campaigns.

[Canadian Visitor]

Amen to that. I would be in favor of time limits and spending limits on US campaigns.

Canada's spending limit is $1.75 per voter during an election.

That works out to about $175,000 for a typical riding/district for a candidate/party.

The maximum any party is allowed to spend is $28,100,000 [[28.1 Million).

For comparison, the US has roughly 9x Canada's population.

That would cap a US Federal campaign at 250M CAD or about 180MUSD. [[using the Canadian system)

The last federal campaign in the US saw spending of 1.4B by the Dems and about 1B by Reps.

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Worth adding here, most Canadians favour lowering spending and donation limits further.

Currently Canada caps donations at $1,575CAD to a candidate, and a party.

There are calls to reduce the per voter limit in spending by more than 1/2 to .75c per voter; and some are suggesting lowering the donation limit to as little as $200CAD