Elections Canada

The watchdog who enforces Canada's election laws says no one from the Prime Minister's Office tried to help SNC-Lavalin avoid being charged with breaking campaign-financing rules.

Canada's chief electoral officer says there's not much his independent agency can do to counter fake news circulated about a candidate in the midst of an election.

Canada's newest national political party is laughing all the way to the bank. In the hours since the party became officially registered with Elections Canada, it has raked in more than $300,000.

A former federal Conservative cabinet minister from Alberta is back in the political game, hoping to take down the Liberal minister in charge of the nation's energy industry, in the heart of the country's oil patch.

A bill aimed at protecting Canadians from foreign attempts to influence how they vote is facing criticism that it's too weak to do the job.

While Ontario Proud founder Jim Ballingall hails the power of "digital democracy," he won't reveal his donor sources. His approach is raising red flags among political and digital media experts about a lack of transparency by such third party groups and the potential for circumventing election spending rules by using social media.

Canada's Global Affairs Department says too many of its employees are being deceived by digital scams — a "serious problem" that could see sensitive information end up in the wrong hands.

The advocacy group Leadnow is claiming victory after Canada’s elections commissioner found no evidence it broke the rules during the 2015 federal election.

The Trudeau Liberals have agreed to increase the amount of money political parties can spend in the run-up to a federal election — a price they've paid to end Conservative stalling of an omnibus bill to reform the country's election laws.

The Trudeau government is beefing up legislation aimed at making it easier for Canadians to vote and harder for foreign entities to interfere in federal elections.

Maxime Bernier claimed on Wednesday, September 5, 2018, that he has raised more than $90,000 for his new political venture and says the party he intends to lead will be in place by the time his political rivals return to Ottawa.

The acting head of Elections Canada supports the Trudeau Liberals' attempt to rewrite federal election rules, but warns more needs to be done to limit the influence of foreign money at the ballot box.

Justin Trudeau says he'll welcome amendments from opposition parties to his government's proposed reforms to laws governing federal political parties and elections.

The Trudeau government will finally move on Monday, April 30, 2018, on a raft of promised reforms to election laws, but it may already be too late to fully implement them in time for the 2019 federal election.

The proposal comes after cyber attackers broke into a Statistics Canada server last year, forcing the data agency and Canada's tax agency offline.