Campaign Transparency
Proof Before Power
Port Hope should not have to wait until after the election to find out whether I keep my word.
Before I ask Port Hope to trust me as mayor, I should demonstrate that I can make a promise, follow it, report against it and admit when I fall short.
These commitments govern how the campaign raises money, spends it, communicates with residents and responds when a mistake is made. Each one has a public evidence trail.
The commitment
Judge the campaign by what it does
Six specific standards are in effect now. Each connects a promise to the place where residents can inspect the evidence.
$500 maximum per individual
ActiveThe campaign will not accept more than $500 from any individual.
The limit applies consistently to eligible monetary and in-kind contributions. Amounts that cannot be accepted will be returned or refunded and included in approved public reporting.
Public evidence: Contribution distribution, returned or refunded contributions, and approved finance publications.No bundled or coordinated influence
ActiveContributions cannot be coordinated to create disproportionate influence.
The campaign will not accept bundled fundraising arranged through a household, business, developer, municipal contractor, lobbyist, union, association or other interest group to get around the individual limit or concentrate influence.
Public evidence: Contribution distribution, compliance review, and disclosed returned contributions.No donor priority or preferential access
ActiveA donation will not purchase better access, a faster response, political preference or favourable treatment.
That standard covers meetings and campaign responses as well as advocacy involving grants, contracts, procurement, planning, permitting, appointments, municipal services and advance access to decisions. Donors retain the same ordinary access as every other resident—no more and no less.
Public evidence: The public corrections and breach record, with any failure and corrective action disclosed.Proactive campaign-finance reporting
ActiveApproved campaign-finance information will be published during the campaign.
Residents should not have to wait for the legally required post-election filing to see how the campaign is funded and where campaign money goes.
Public evidence: Finances at a glance, contribution distribution, campaign spending, other disclosures and the official filing.Accountable campaign conduct and paid relationships
ActiveCampaign communications will be attributable, factual and accountable.
The campaign will not use fake community accounts, anonymous attack pages, concealed proxies or intermediaries to spread personal attacks, and it will not target candidates’ families or irrelevant private lives. That does not prevent forceful, factual criticism of public records, statements, conduct, competence or policy positions. Approved disclosures will identify material consultants, contractors, agencies, advisers, professional service providers and vendors receiving campaign funds.
Public evidence: Material paid-relationship disclosures, campaign spending, corrections and breach disclosures.Public corrections, platform changes and disclosed failures
ActiveMaterial corrections and changes will remain visible instead of quietly disappearing.
The public record will explain what changed, why it changed, the evidence or feedback that informed it, and what corrective action followed when a commitment was not met.
Public evidence: Corrections, platform-change history, disclosed failures and corrective action.
No quiet exceptions
A failure becomes part of the public record.
If the campaign fails to meet one of these commitments, the failure will be recorded publicly with an explanation and corrective action.
Public evidence
Campaign finances and disclosures
The policies are active now. Financial figures will be added only after an approved public publication is available.
Not yet reportable
Finances at a glance
Approved totals, contributor counts, contribution bands and campaign spending will appear here without placeholder zeroes.
Campaign spending and paid relationships
Approved spending categories, material vendors, consultants and professional service providers will be reported here.
Contribution distribution
Approved counts and amounts will be shown in accessible contribution bands, with exact values in text rather than an empty chart.
Approved contribution disclosure
Aggregate reporting is the default. A contributor display name will appear only when a later approved publication policy permits it.
Other public finance records
- Candidate and spouse contributions
- Reported separately where applicable
- Not yet reportable
- Eligible in-kind contributions
- Included when approved for publication
- Not yet reportable
- Returned or refunded contributions
- Reported with the relevant reporting period
- Not yet reportable
- Liabilities
- Published only when approved for public reporting
- Not yet reportable
- Official post-election filing
- Linked after the official filing is available
- Not yet reportable
Corrections and publication history
Not yet reportable
No approved correction, platform-change, breach or publication-history entries are available for this page yet. The absence of an entry is not presented as a perfect record.
Methodology and privacy
Public enough to verify. Private where it must be.
Campaign Ops owns the authoritative financial records, reconciliation and publication approval. This public site owns presentation only, and its live integration remains disabled until a reviewed public contract exists.
Approved figures may lag internal bookkeeping while transactions are reconciled and reviewed. Publication dates and reporting periods will make that timing explicit.
Public reporting excludes addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, payment identifiers, private notes, raw internal identifiers and contributor names that have not been approved for publication.
This voluntary reporting does not replace the campaign's required municipal election filings. The official post-election filing will be linked here when it is available.
An open standard