List of sham political donation systems across Canada

In Ontario in 2021, a vaccine clinic company’s executives and their family members all donated the maximum annual amount of $3,300 to Premier Ford’s PC Party, and the Ford government gave the company a contract to deliver vaccines. [...] illegally funneled more than $25,000 to the federal Conservative Party and its candidates, and more than $20,000 to the federal Liberal Party and its candidates, from 2004 to 2011. [...] An Elections Quebec audit found $12.8 million in likely illegally funneled donations from 2006-2011 (see also article in the Globe and Mail), and the Charbonneau Commission inquiry into the construction industry donation scandal heard of many donation-funneling schemes (before Quebec limited donations to $100 a year in 2013). [...] A 2019 analysis of donations to candidates in Ottawa’s city council elections found some property developers claiming donations were made by their wives in order to avoid prosecution, and another analysis of Ottawa donations released May 2020 found that 58% of donations to councillors on the city’s Planning Committee came from people associated with the property development industry, and that 11 o. [...] Donations from corporations, unions and other organizations were banned in Toronto elections in 2009, and individual donations limited to $750 annually, but a 2016 analysis by the Toronto Star found that big business and other special interest group executives and their families continue to give large amounts to city councillors.