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Description
The Election Compliance Audit Committee is an arm’s length City of Ottawa Committee and does not report to Ottawa City Council. Election Compliance Audit Committee reviews applications for compliance audits of the election campaign finances of candidates and registered third-party advertisers and considers report(s) from the City Clerk and Solicitor on apparent contraventions of contribution limits.
Agendas, minutes, decisions and more information on the Election Compliance Audit Committee may be found at: http://ottawa.ca/ecac
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Before
considering
the
audit
report
and
contributor
reports,
I
would
like
to
make
a
brief
statement
with
respect
to
the
first
report
for
our
consideration.
The
taesik
audit
matter
at
its
May
17th
meeting
this
committee
granted
an
application
for
a
compliance
audit
with
respect
to
candidate
J
tae
sik's
election
campaign
finances.
The
committee
appointed
on
June
24th,
an
auditor
Kevin
boom
of
BDO
for
compliance
auditor.
On
the
subject
of
the
candidates
election
campaign
finances,
the
auditor
has
now
completed
its
independent
investigation.
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His
report
has
outlined
any
apparent
contraventions
of
the
act
by
the
candidate.
The
committee
is
meeting
today
to
consider
the
auditor's
report
and
will,
as
the
case
may
be,
based
on
the
content
of
the
auditor's
report,
decide
whether
to
commence
a
legal
proceeding
against
the
candidate
for
any
apparent
contraventions.
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To
assist
the
clerk
in
carrying
out
this
legislative
duty,
the
clerk
has
retained
an
auditor
to
review
the
contributions
and
report
on
their
observations.
The
clerk's
auditor
has
now
completed
their
review
and
the
clerk
has
repaired.
The
six
contributor
reports
for
the
committee's
consideration
today,
the
clerk's
report
has
outlined
any
apparent
contributions
of
the
act
by
the
contributors.
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The
committee
will
consider
today
the
sixth
clerk
reports
and
will,
as
the
case
may
be,
based
on
the
content
of
the
clerk's
reports,
decide
whether
to
commence
a
legal
proceeding
against
the
contributors
for
any
apparent
contraventions,
as
all
items
on
the
agenda
require
the
committee
to
decide
whether
or
not
to
commence
legal
proceedings.
I
have
some
further
comments
which
apply
to
all
matters
before
the
committee
today.
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Take
this
opportunity
to
note
that
the
committee's
external
legal
counsel,
Benoit
de
sheng,
has
disclosed
in
writing
that
his
firm
gulling
wlg
would
be
in
a
position
of
a
professional
conflict
of
interest
on
the
city
clerks
reports,
as
the
firm
represents
some
of
the
contributors
accordingly,
mr.
Duchesne
has
recused
himself
and
as
Kim
Muldoon
McMullen
excuse
me
of
wood
ball.
Llp
is
in
attendance
to
advise
the
committee
on
these
matters.
That
said,
mr
de
sheng
does
not
have
any
conflict
with
respect
to
the
Tison
matter
that
we
will
be
delivered
deliberating
on.
Firstly,.
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Further
mister
Deschenes
law
firm
has
requested
that
the
committee
provide
its
consent
so
that
they
may
represent
a
contributor.
That
is
a
party
to
one
of
the
matters
before
the
committee
today,
in
consultation
with
MS
Moen.
The
committee
has
consented
to
this
consent
to
this
request.
I
trust
that
everyone
who
wishes
to
speak
today
has
filled
out
a
request
request
to
speak
form
available
to
my
right
at
the
end
of
the
table
and
has
submitted
it
to
the
coordinator.
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You
mr.
chair
and
thank
you
mister
room,
first
of
all,
I
think
it's
only
appropriate
to
say
my
sympathies.
This
was
a
difficult
job
that
you
had
to
do
and
it's
a
the
difficulty
is
evident
in
your
report
and
I
commend
your
skill
in
in
waltzing.
Through
this.
The
way
you
could
they,
the
one
thing
I
was
left
little
unclear
about
is:
did
you
get
a
proper
bank
statement
from
the
candidate.
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Your
report,
it
was
one
of
the
pieces
of
evidence
that
mr.
tisk
repeatedly
said
he
was
going
to
be
providing
to
us,
so
we
in.
In
addition,
in
anticipation
of
receiving
that
information,
we
continued
to
to
wait
for
that
last
piece
of
document
that
has
part
of
the
last
documents
that
he
was
going
to
be
sending.
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To
us-
and
it
had
to
come
to
an
end
sometime
I
noticed
that
you,
you
did
take
this
step
of
actually
issuing
a
summons
and
that
was
partially
successful,
but
not
completely
successful
in
getting
the
records
that
you'd
requested.
That
is
correct,
yeah!
Well,
thank
you
and
that's
really
all
I
I
had
to
ask
of
you
and
thank
you.
You're
welcome.