David, you need to be careful on these things...it is when you (and obivously many of your commenters) state these things out of ignorance that misconceptions and misleading impressions get left and often become lexicon. The Feb 13 event in question was a riding level event, not a liberal party event, therefore the contributions would not show up in the party s quarterly report at any rate, but in that (those) of the ridings involved. Secondly given the time it takes to collect donations, prepare an event report, submit everything it is impossible for donations made on a day to appear in a report for that day. So you are off base on several fronts on this one and your conclusions, particularly with to amount of money raised and who the donors were, are completely wrong. It's really not worth wasting time trying to explain all of the other misconceptions/mistatements that your commenters make (confusing and mixing limits for donations to various entities, as well as which donations are for calendar years and which are for entire events; confusing loans to cover expenses with contributions, etc, etc,) other than to say that this stuff is so complicated that everyone should realize that this is a major part of the problem with all things related to political financing in Canada. People would be wise to not wade in on stuff they don't know about, at minimum not to state dumb erroneous things as fact.