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“Unfortunately EDAs are not aware if individuals have given to other EDAs,” said party spokesman Cory Hann. “If individuals have reached their limit in a year it is Elections Canada who notifies.”

Hann would not say whether Kenney’s association had returned the donations, as EDAs are sometimes required to do. The fundraiser party for Kenney was held in the home of Egbert and Rosemary Felix on Sept. 13, 2012, netting $22,800 in cheques for the Calgary Southeast riding association.

Felix, a Toronto mortgage broker, said the event was attended by his “business associates.” All but two of the 22 donors ponied up at least $1,000 each.

It is unclear why Kenney was raising money in Toronto for his Alberta riding, already one of the wealthiest in the country. The association’s president, Patrick Donnelly, said last week in an email that it is not uncommon for associations to accept donations from across the country.

Five months before the private fundraiser, some of the same donors made equally large contributions to Calandra’s riding association, all on April 10. Elections Canada records show Egbert Felix, Rosemary Felix, Rajeef Koneswaran, Subramaniam Kumaravel, Sutharsan Kunaratnam and Luxmani Sanmugasuntharam made $1,000 donations to the Oak Ridges — Markham association before giving similar amounts to Kenney’s association.

Reached by telephone, Felix said he had nothing more to say about the donations and hung up.