Bribery;
119. (1) Every person who, bribing elector or procuring bribery by money (a) directly or indirectly, himself or herself or by any other person on his or her behalf, gives, lends or agrees to give or lend, or offers or promises any money or valuable consideration, or promises to procure or to endeavour to procure any money or valuable consideration to or for any elector, or to or for any person on behalf of any elector, or to or for any person in order to induce any elector to vote or refrain from voting, or corruptly does any such act on account of any elector having voted or refrained from voting at an election; or by gift or offer or promise of employment (b) directly or indirectly, himself or herself or by any other person on his or her behalf, gives or procures or agrees to give or procure, or offers or promises any office, place or employment, or promises to procure or to endeavour to procure any office, place or employment to or for any elector, or to or for any other person in order to induce any elector to vote or refrain from voting, or corruptly does any such act on account of any elector having voted or refrained from voting at an election; or to induce anyone to procure return of candidate or endeavour to procure (c) directly or indirectly, himself or herself or by any other person on his or her behalf, makes any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement or agreement, to or for any person, in order to induce such person to procure or endeavour to procure the return of any candidate, or the vote of any elector at an election; or receiving bribe to procure return of candidate (d) upon or in consequence of any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement or agreement, procures or engages, promises or endeavours to procure the return of any candidate, or the vote of any elector at an election; or advancing money to be spent in corrupt practices (e) advances or pays, or causes to be paid, money to or to the use of any other person, with the intent that such money or any part of it shall be expended in corrupt practices at an election, or who knowingly pays or causes to be paid money to any person in discharge or repayment of money wholly or in part expended in corrupt practices at an election; or applying for money or employment in consideration of voting (f) directly or indirectly, himself or herself or by any other person on his or her behalf, on account of and as payment for voting or for having voted, or for illegally agreeing or having agreed to vote for any candidate at an election, or on account of and as payment for having illegally assisted or agreed to assist any candidate at an election, applies to such candidate for the gift or loan of any money or valuable consideration, or for the promise of the gift or loan of any money or valuable consideration, or for any office, place or employment, or the promise of any office, place or employment; or receiving money, office, etc., for having voted (g) before or during an election, directly or indirectly, himself or herself or by any other person on his or her behalf, receives, agrees or contracts for any money, gift, loan or valuable consideration, office, place or employment, for himself, herself, or any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting at an election; or receiving money corruptly after election (h) after an election, directly or indirectly, himself or herself or by any other person on his or her behalf, receives any money or valuable consideration for having voted or refrained from voting, or for having induced any other person to vote or refrain from voting at an election; or giving or promising office to candidate to stand or withdraw (i) in order to induce a person to allow himself or herself to be nominated as a candidate, or to refrain from becoming a candidate, or to withdraw if he or she has become a candidate, gives or procures any office, place or employment, or agrees to give or procure or offers or promises to procure, or endeavours to procure any office, place or employment for such person, or for any other person, is guilty of bribery, and on conviction is liable to a fine of $5,000, or to imprisonment for a term of not more than six months, or to both, and is disqualified from voting at any election for four years. Posting of provisions as to corrupt practices (2) The clerk shall furnish every deputy returning officer with at least two copies of this section, and the deputy returning officer shall post them in conspicuous places at the polling place. R.S.O. 1990, c.M.53, s.119.