By Alison@Creekside The Elections Canada video above, promoting the youth vote, is exactly what the Cons intend their Fair Elections Act to put a stop to, an anonymous gov official told The Hill Times, providing them with a link to the video. As you can see, it shows Xs representing ballot votes moving from a rock concert […]
L’affaire Butt: What’s not to get?
Are you confused by the Brad Butt affair? We can’t imagine why. Look, it’s simple: The Con MP for Mississauga-Streetsville rose in the House twice on February 6th to say, in defense of the Fair Elections Act, that he’d personally witnessed voter fraud going on in the lobby of “an apartment building.” Then he rose […]
Problem: Too much democracy. Solution: Fair Elections Act.
By Alison@Creekside “What problems are the Conservatives really trying to solve with bizarre Fair Elections Act?” asked Andrew Coyne in an excellent column two days ago. I’d like to pillage that question and expand on it a bit. Problem: Investigation into election fraud in 2011 Election, 33 months ago, being rushed along at dangerous breakneck […]
Fair Elections Act: Bleeding democracy
By Montreal Simon One of the most outrageous aspects of Stephen Harper’s new voter suppression scheme, a.k.a The Fair Elections Act, is how many Canadians it would disenfranchise. Canada’s chief electoral officer says eliminating a registered voter’s ability to vouch for another could impact more than 100,000 people, most of them aboriginals who live on […]
Meanwhile, still no convictions in the robocalls scandal
By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand has come out to say finally that the Conservatives are not cooperating with the investigation into the robocall election fraud of 2011. I do not find this surprising, and if you’ve been reading my blog the past year, you’d know that’s because the evidence points […]
