Progressive Conservative lawmaker Ross Romano says he had no knowledge of the $5,000 payment to the former PC leader’s girlfriend in May, 2017
Former Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown sits next to Ontario PC MPP Ross Romano at the Queen's Park Legislature in Toronto on March 28, 2018.Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Ross Romano says he was not aware that a top donor to the party gave money to Patrick Brown’s girlfriend for work on his by-election campaign.
At the time, the maximum allowable donation to a candidate’s campaign was $1,200 a year, under provincial rules that came into effect on Jan. 1, 2017. John Vanthof, deputy leader of the New Democratic Party, called on the election watchdog to look into the payments, saying money changing hands with no records taints the entire process.
A spokesman for Mr. Brown, now mayor of Brampton, said in an e-mail that “It is unfortunate that false, exaggerated and out of context snippets from an old closed investigation are being presented in this manner.”
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