Recent amendments present significant enforcement risk to
individuals, corporations, trade unions and employee organizations
that plan to conduct advertising during Alberta local elections, or
are contemplating contributing to third parties that will do so.1
These amendments will be in effect for the upcoming Alberta
municipal general election on October 18. They are part of Bill 45,
the Local Authorities Election Amendment Act, 2020
(No. 2),2 which received Royal Assent on
December 9, 2020 and came into force on January 1, 2021.
New Cap on Contributions to Third Party Advertisers
The Local Authorities Election Act3 regulates
election advertising by third parties during the election
advertising period of local elections.
