Elections watchdog says Tory golf shirt at child benefit event broke rules
OTTAWA — If he had to do it all over again, Pierre Poilievre would have worn a suit.
Canada’s election watchdog said Friday that the former Conservative cabinet minister’s decision in 2015 to wear a party-branded shirt to announce an expansion of child benefit payments broke election financing rules.
Poilievre wore the blue shirt with the large “C” at two announcements on the same day about an increase in the value of the now defunct universal child care benefit.
At the time, Poilievre — the social development minister — said the payments were from “our Conservative government,” adding that “if the Liberals and NDP were to take office they would take the benefits away and raise taxes.”