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The Prime Minister’s Office is going to ask Conservative MP Mark Adler to repay money that he solicited from lobbyists.

“It is not appropriate and he is going to be directed to refund any inappropriate donations,” Jason MacDonald, the prime minister’s director of communications, said Friday.

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Postmedia News reported this week that Adler sold $400 tickets to a February 2013 fundraiser to about 30 lobbyists, including many with whom he held official meetings connected to his work on the finance committee.

The direct solicitations seemed to violate guidelines established by ethics commissioner Mary Dawson, which forbid targeting “any organizations or individuals with which you anticipate having official dealings in your capacity as a member of Parliament.”

MacDonald said Friday that donations that appear to violate that rule will have to be returned.

“Specifically he will have to pay back any money from lobbyists registered to lobby dept of finance, and people he met with in his official capacity,” he said.