Vancouver shows B.C. is still the Wild West of election advertising

Despite new rules put in place to curb the spending and donations that political parties can dole out and receive during campaigns, the Globe and Mail‘s Frances Bula reports that B.C. remains the Wild West of election advertising. 

Bula points out that Vancouver mayoral candidate Hector Bremner and his Yes Vancouver team seem to have benefited from developer Peter Wall skirting the regulations. Billboards with Bremner‘s name and face on them had been plastered around the city, but according to election rules, as long as they were gone before the official registration date of September 22, no harm, no foul. 

That date has come and gone, and the billboards are nowhere to be seen.