Close to 60 per cent of campaign donations in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality’s 2016 election came from businesses and unions, a CBC News investigation has found.
That’s a higher rate than the Halifax Regional Municipality, where only 37 per cent of donations came from those sources.
Unlike provincial and federal elections, municipal elections in Nova Scotia have no restrictions on who can donate, or how much.
“The question is whether a reasonable person looking at it would think there is a potential to be influenced,” said Guy Giorno, an Ottawa-based lawyer who chairs an ethics committee on lobbying with the Canadian Bar Association.
Read full story here: CBRM Mayoral Candidates Raked In Business Donations Under ‘Wild West’ Rules – Nova Scotia – CBC News
