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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷6/29/2019 4:08:44 am PDT

Canada’s Election Modernisation Act goes into effect Sunday.

The purpose of this act is to limit the amount of money political parties can spend on adverts prior to the start of an election campaign period.

cbc.ca

The Election Modernization Act introduced rules governing what can and can’t be done in the months leading up to a federal election.

It defines the length of federal election campaigns, restricts the amount of spending allowed in the period immediately before a campaign, works to prevent foreign interference and introduces new rules to regulate third-party political activity.

Political parties can now spend a maximum of $2 million on advertising in the pre-writ period. With a fixed election date of Oct. 21, that timeline starts June 30 and ends once the writ has dropped. But those spending limits are raised significantly the day the campaign begins.