Doug Ford to raise campaign donation limits by 47%

Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are hiking annual political donation limits by 47 per cent and scrapping the fixed election date law they ignored when they held February’s snap vote.

Along with ending the practice of set election dates every four years, Attorney General Doug Downey is boosting maximum donations from the current $3,400 to $5,000 in January and tying future increases to inflation.

As well, Downey plans to make permanent the per-vote subsidies that the Tories, Liberals, New Democrats, Greens and other political parties receive.

In an interview Monday, the attorney general noted Ontario is returning to an electoral process that “was good for a century and a half” before the fixed election law passed a generation ago.

“We’re moving back towards that and othe