This is the third part in the series ... Part I is found here and Part II is found here, while the list of Conservative candidates identified as participants in the in-out advertising plan ... which I have also just corrected today ... can be found here. Today's Hill Times has an article listing 11 of the 17 candidates who apparently received a rebate of election expenses prior to the commencement of the Elections Canada review/investigation. The Hill Times reports that all 11 of the elected MPs on the list were in that group, plus 6 other unsuccessful candidates (which it did not name).

[And with this blog-post, I'm going to conclude and set aside the listing of lists relating to election expenditures in the last elections, so I can get back to some more data gathering for the next election and some more analysis and search features for the Guide's users.]

The third main activity claimed to be a common practice of all political parties by Conservative Party's political operations officer Geoff Donald in his October 2007 affadavit, but for which he asserted only the Conservative Party was being criticized, is the claiming of local advertising expenses that were in some way "unidentified". The affadavit lists the names of 45 Liberal, Bloc and NDP candidates whose returns are said to include such expenses, but although exhibits were attached to the affadavit which probably indicated which election those expenses were incurred in, that piece of information was not included in the main affadavit. Thus, I have included the latest general election for each of the candidates below.

Curiously only one of the candidates named in this category has a last name starting with the letter 'N' or higher (you notice these kinds of things working with lists in the context of a database). We can guess that the review of candidate returns was perhaps terminated somewhere in the middle of this work. I haven't run an analysis of candidates by first letter of last name, but believe we're safe in assuming a pretty even distribution there.

List of 45 Liberal, NDP and BQ candidates named by the Conservatives as having unidentified local advertising expenses

(courtesy Stephen Taylor of the Blogging Tories, at stephentaylor.ca)

Riding		Elec: Candidate	Contest
QC	Gatineau	2006 GE: LEVESQUE, Anne (F)	BQ-Lib
QC	Trois-Rivières	2004 GE: GUINDON, Jean-Éric (M)	BQ-Lib
QC	Manicouagan	2006 GE: DUCASSE, Pierre (M)	BQ-Cons
QC	Hull – Aylmer	2006 GE: LALIBERTÉ, Pierre (M)	Lib-BQ
QC	Notre-Dame-de-Grâce – Lachine	2006 GE: DESLAURIERS, Peter (M)	Lib-BQ
QC	Saint-Laurent – Cartierville	2006 GE: DION, Stéphane (M)	Lib-BQ
NS	Sydney – Victoria	2006 GE: EDWARDS, John Hugh (M)	Lib-NDP
ON	Beaches – East York	2006 GE: CHURLEY, Marilyn (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Hamilton Mountain	2004 GE: CHARLTON, Chris (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Kenora	2004 GE: BARCLAY, Susan (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Nickel Belt	2006 GE: GRAVELLE, Claude (M)	Lib-NDP
ON	Sudbury	2006 GE: MARLEAU, Diane (F)	Lib-NDP
ON	Trinity – Spadina	2004 GE: CHOW, Olivia (F)	Lib-NDP
NL	Humber – St. Barbe – Baie Verte	2006 GE: BYRNE, Gerry (M)	Lib-Cons
PE	Egmont	2006 GE: MCGUIRE, Joe (M)	Lib-Cons
PE	Malpeque	2006 GE: EASTER, Wayne (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Beauséjour	2006 GE: LEBLANC, Dominic (M)	Lib-Cons
NB	Moncton – Riverview – Dieppe	2006 GE: MURPHY, Brian (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Ajax – Pickering	2006 GE: HOLLAND, Mark (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Huron – Bruce	2006 GE: ROBERTSON, Grant (M)	Lib-Cons
ON	Kenora	2006 GE: BARCLAY, Susan (F)	Lib-Cons
ON	Parry Sound – Muskoka	2004 GE: MITCHELL, Andy (M)	Lib-Cons
SK	Desnethé – Missinippi – Churchill River	2006 GE: JACKSON, Anita (F)	Lib-Cons
SK	Wascana	2006 GE: GOODALE, Ralph (M)	Lib-Cons
AB	Edmonton Centre	2004 GE: MCMASTER, Meghan (F)	Lib-Cons
NS	Halifax	2006 GE: MACKINNON, Martin (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Hamilton Centre	2006 GE: CHRISTOPHERSON, David (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Hamilton East – Stoney Creek	2006 GE: MARSTON, Wayne (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Hamilton Mountain	2006 GE: CHARLTON, Chris (F)	NDP-Lib
ON	Toronto – Danforth	2006 GE: LAYTON, Jack (M)	NDP-Lib
ON	Trinity – Spadina	2006 GE: CHOW, Olivia (F)	NDP-Lib
BC	Burnaby – New Westminster	2006 GE: JULIAN, Peter (M)	NDP-Lib
BC	British Columbia Southern Interior	2006 GE: ATAMANENKO, Alex T. (M)	NDP-Lib
QC	Louis-Hébert	2006 GE: BLANCHETTE, Denis (M)	Cons-BQ
QC	Pontiac	2006 GE: BRAULT, Céline (F)	Cons-BQ
NL	St. John's East	2006 GE: ANTLE, Paul (M)	Cons-Lib
ON	Nepean – Carleton	2006 GE: GAFFNEY, Michael (M)	Cons-Lib
ON	Parry Sound – Muskoka	2006 GE: MITCHELL, Andy (M)	Cons-Lib
AB	Edmonton East	2006 GE: CHAPMAN, Arlene (F)	Cons-Lib
BC	Delta – Richmond East	2004 GE: LEONHARDT, Shelley (F)	Cons-Lib
BC	Kamloops – Thompson – Cariboo	2004 GE: CARROLL, Brian (M)	Cons-Lib
SK	Regina – Lumsden – Lake Centre	2006 GE: ANDERSON, Gary (M)	Cons-NDP
SK	Regina – Qu'Appelle	2006 GE: HERLE, Allyce (F)	Cons-NDP
BC	Kootenay – Columbia	2006 GE: BURWELL, Jhim (M)	Cons-NDP
BC	Prince George – Peace River	2006 GE: BAUDER, Nathan (M)	Cons-NDP

Labels: 38th (2004) General Election, 39th (2006) General Election, Election Expenses, Election Finance