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OTTAWA — The federal elections watchdog has fined Liberal MP Jaime Battiste for a battery of electoral offences in 2019, including donating over the legal limit to his campaign and filing a “false and misleading” financial statement.
Thursday morning, the Commissioner of Canada Elections said he issued fines totalling $600 against Battiste for four different violations of federal electoral laws.
Battiste is the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations.
All the offences were linked to the 2019 Liberal nomination race in the Nova Scotia riding of Cape...
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