The CRTC has fined seven political parties and politicians, including former Liberal leadership candidate Marc Garneau, the New Democratic Party of Canada, and the Conservative Party of Canada, $369,000 for robocalls that broke telemarketing rules.

The federal Conservative Party and Conservative MP Blake Richards have 30 days to pay their fines–$14,400 and $78,000, respectively.

Garneau, Alberta’s Wildrose Alliance party, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party, telemarketing firm RackNine and the federal NDP have already paid a total of $277,500 to the regulator for the violations, a press release said.

RackNine is the same firm linked with the 2011 federal election robocall scandal. Elections Canada traced some of the fraudulent calls in Guelph, Ont. to the Edmonton-based call centre, which has a history of doing business with Conservative candidates including Stephen Harper.

The firm had to pay $60,000 to the regulator for 15 robocall campaigns between 2011 and February of this year because the calls did not state they were being conducted on behalf “various political entities,” according to the statement. The release did not say which entities the company worked for.

The levies come as part of CRTC’s ongoing investigations into the use of robocalls by political parties, officials, and private firms.

Garneau was fined $2,500, the lowest amount of all the offenders, for calls made in March in relation to his Liberal leadership campaign. The calls broke rules because they did not state at the beginning of the call that they were made on his behalf.

In a statement from his office, Garneau said he had fully co-operated with the CRTC and personally paid the fine, adding that the omission at the beginning of the calls was an “inadvertent” error. “I apologized immediately in March when the CRTC advised my campaign of this error,” he said, “and I apologize again today.”

The rest of the fines were more substantial.

The Wildrose Alliance paid a $90,000 fine for six robocall campaigns between March 2011 and November 2012. The calls broke telemarketing rules because they did not identify they were being made on behalf of the association.

The Ontario Tories were fined $85,000 for two robocall campaigns made in September 2011 that also failed to provide the name of the party and contact information.

The federal NDP paid $40,000 for calls made in the riding of St-Maurice-Champlain, Quebec in January of last year for the same reason.

The Conservative Party of Canada still has to pay $78,000 for calls made in Saskatchewan between January and February this year about changes to riding boundaries in the province. The calls failed to identify they were being made on behalf of the party.

Richards will have to pay his fine for two calling campaigns dating back to August and October 2012 for the same reason.

“We expect political party associations and candidates who are running for office to put appropriate safeguards in place to ensure compliance with…the…rules,” said CRTC enforcement head Andrea Rosen.

Violators will have to better comply with telemarketing rules, including the appointment of an officer who can monitor their practices, the release said.

To date, the regulator has levied more than $2.9 million fines on robocall offenders.