HELP US
BUILD THIS.
Your support helps reach residents, organize volunteers and build a campaign focused on listening, practical ideas and accountable results.
EVERY
CONTRIBUTION
IS RECEIPTED.
The most one person may give this campaign is $1200.00. Your total is counted across everything you give, not per contribution, and this form checks it before it takes anything.
Contributions go to the campaign’s own bank account and appear in the financial statement filed with the Town after the election.
THE RULES, BEFORE THE ASK.
Municipal campaign finance in Ontario is strict, and the limits are on you as much as on the campaign. These apply whichever way you give.
- INDIVIDUALS ONLY.A contribution may only come from an individual normally resident in Ontario. It must be your own money, not reimbursed by anyone else.
- NO CORPORATIONS OR UNIONS.Corporations, trade unions, clubs and organizations cannot contribute to a municipal campaign in Ontario. A contribution from one has to be refunded.
- $1,200 MAXIMUM TO THIS CANDIDATE.Your total to Jon Hillis’s campaign, counting money, donated goods and services, and fundraising tickets together, cannot exceed $1,200.
- $5,000 ACROSS THE SAME COUNCIL.You also have a $5,000 limit across all candidates running for the same council. Only you can know that total, so we will ask you to confirm it.
- CASH ONLY UP TO $25.Anything over $25 has to arrive by a traceable method: cheque, money order or electronic transfer, so the campaign can show where it came from.
- A RECEIPT FOR EVERY CONTRIBUTION.Every contribution is receipted, whatever the amount. Municipal campaign contributions are not income-tax deductible.
- OVER $100 BECOMES PUBLIC.If your total contributions exceed $100, your name and address appear on the campaign’s public financial statement filed with the Town. That is the law, not a campaign choice.
CHEQUE, E-TRANSFER OR CASH.
Not everyone wants to give online, and the campaign takes contributions three other ways. All of them are recorded and receipted exactly the same, and all of them count towards the same $1,200 limit.
CHEQUE.
Made payable to the campaign’s official account. Write your full name and residential address on the back. The campaign is required to record both, and cannot receipt a contribution without them.
Where to send it: write to jon@hilliscwoodmayor.com and the campaign will send you the mailing address.
E-TRANSFER.
To the campaign’s registered account. Put your full name in the message field, and expect the campaign to come back to you for your residential address before the contribution can be recorded.
Where to send it: ask at jon@hilliscwoodmayor.com and it is sent to you — the account is not printed here, so it cannot be scraped off a public page.
CASH.
Up to $25. Ontario does not allow a cash contribution above that, so anything more has to come by a traceable method — cheque, e-transfer or card — and the campaign will ask you to give it one of those ways instead.
What we need from you: your full name and residential address, at the time. A contribution cannot be receipted without them, and a receipt is written for every one.
RECORDED, THEN RECEIPTED.
Every contribution is entered against your name and address in the campaign’s contribution ledger, checked against the $1,200 limit, and receipted. The totals are filed with the Town in the campaign’s financial statement after the election, and contributions over $100 are named there.