OTTAWA — The federal elections watchdog has fined Liberal MP Jaime Battiste for a battery of electoral offences in 2019, including donating over the legal limit to his campaign and filing a “false and misleading” financial statement.

Thursday morning, the Commissioner of Canada Elections said he issued fines totalling $600 against Battiste for four different violations of federal electoral laws. Battiste is the parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations.

All the offences were linked to the 2019 Liberal nomination race in the Nova Scotia riding of Cape Breton—Canso—Antigonish, which he won. Months later, Battiste was elected for the first time to the House of Commons.

The commissioner found that Battiste donated nearly $1,500 over the legal limit when he cont

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