"We're not hiding anything": MP Mayes

107.5 KISSFM Pete McIntyre

Okanagan Shuswap Conservative MP Colin Mayes says the current campaign-spending controversy, has to be decided by the courts. Mayes's riding association is one of 67 Elections Canada has questioned, for allegedly filtering national campaign dollars through local ridings, so spending limits wouldn't be exceeded during the last federal election. Mayes told a media scrum Tuesday at the Schubert Centre, it comes to down to how his party interpreted the rules. "We're not hiding anything. If a judge sides with Elections Canada and says, 'No I think you shouldn't have run that money through the way you did', we've got no problem with that. We'll return the money and abide by the rules." Mayes says other parties did the same thing in past elections. Mayes says he didn't receive any money from the Tories, but his campaign gave the party $10,000 to help out other campaigns that weren't as well financed.