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Table 1: Details of Transfer Payment Programs
1. Strategic Outcome: An electoral process that contributes to fairness, transparency
and accessibility for all participants, in compliance with the legislative framework.
2. Program Activity: Elections
3. Name of Transfer Payment Program: Reimbursements to candidates, parties and auditors, and allowances to eligible political parties (new political financing provisions of the Canada Elections Act).
4. Start date: Ongoing
5. End date: Ongoing
6. Description: Elections Canada's role is to administer the Canada Elections Act, which has three main objectives: fairness, transparency and participation.
To promote fairness and participation, the Act provides for partial reimbursement of election expenses to candidates and parties, and a subsidy for certain auditor's fees.
To be eligible for partial reimbursements of election expenses, candidates must be elected or obtain at least 10 percent of the valid votes cast in their electoral district. Registered parties must obtain at least 2 percent of the valid votes cast nationally or 5 percent of the valid votes cast in electoral districts where the party has endorsed candidates.
Registered parties that meet the reimbursement criteria also receive quarterly allowances based on the number of votes they obtained in the last general election.
A subsidy not exceeding $1,500 is sent directly to the external auditors of candidates and to auditors of registered associations if they qualify. To qualify for an audit subsidy, an association must have accepted contributions or incurred expenses totalling $5,000 or more during the year.
| Calculation of Reimbursement | Minimum Reimbursement | Maximum Reimbursement | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Election Expenses | Candidates | 60% of the sum of paid election expenses and paid personal expenses | n/a | 60% of established spending limit |
| Registered parties | 50% of paid election expenses | n/a | 50% of established spending limit | |
| Auditor's Subsidy | Candidates | 3% of candidate's election expenses | $250 | $1,500 |
| Registered associations | Amount of the invoice | n/a | $1,500 | |
| Quarterly Allowance | Registered parties | $0.4375 multiplied by the number of valid votes cast in the last general election and the inflation adjustment factor determined for that period | n/a | n/a |
7. Expected Results: n/a
| ($ thousands) | 8. Forecast Spending 2009–10 |
9. Planned Spending 2010–11 |
10. Planned Spending 2011–12 |
11. Planned Spending 2012–13 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12. Total grants | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 12. Total contributions | 0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| 12. Total other types of transfer payments | $28,797 |
$27,850 |
$27,850 |
$27,850 |
| 13. Total transfer payments | $28,797 |
$27,850 |
$27,850 |
$27,850 |