Advisory Committee of Political Parties – Meeting Summary – February 13 and 14, 2019

5. Electronic Financial Returns Update

Presenter: Jeff Merrett (Director, Regulatory Instruments and Systems)

In his presentation, Mr. Merrett provided a functionality overview and discussed updates and the phased release schedule for Elections Canada’s Online Electronic Financial Return (EFR) tool. There will be phased releases for political parties, nomination contestants and candidates, and Electoral District Associations by summer 2019.

After the presentation, a demonstration of several different functionalities and tasks within the EFR tool was provided to ACPP members.

The session concluded with a question and answer period with ACPP members. Elections Canada answered questions including:

• The possibility of bulk-uploading data (this functionality still a work in progress);
• How the tool handles non-monetary contributions and other related questions;
• Required fields and formats; and
• Other functional matters related to how to use the application.

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