In its latest attack on the Tories, the NDP has charged Stephen Harper for changing the campaigning culture in Canada to replicate the US-styled “big money” canvassing.
The party said, “Stephen Harper’s so-called “Fair Elections Act” changed the election spending rules to stack the deck in favour of US-style, big money campaigns. That’s why he called this election early – to increase the campaign spending limit to nearly $54 million and make this the most expensive election ever.”
It earlier pointed that the Conservatives had doubled their ad buys in key battleground riding. That amount of airtime allowed the Tories to spread fear and division in communities.
Notably, NDP’s media campaigning was, for the most part, focused on pleading supporters for donations to the party.
