Liberals have 3-to-1 spending advantage in majority-deciding by-election

Fred Delorey: When multiple by-elections occur at the same time, however, the national spending ceiling is calculated across all of them. That money can be spent anywhere.

There are three by-elections that will happen at the same time.

For the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP, that means a national cap tied to three ridings. In practice, the Liberals have little need to allocate resources to the two safe Toronto contests and can concentrate virtually all of its allowable national spending in Terrebonne…