By David@Sixthestate.net Well, at least we have it confirmed for us. The reason that Vic Toews is a Cabinet minister despite being convicted of election fraud, the reason that Peter Penashue is allowed to stand as a Conservative candidate despite being responsible for similar violations of the law, the reason Peter Van Loan is still […]
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Robocalls: Just the beginning?
By Montreal Simon Well, it’s been a long time coming. And I have to admit I had almost given up hope that anybody would ever be charged in connection with the RoboCon Scandal. But finally somebody has picked up the ringing phone and answered my prayers. From The Ottawa Citizen: “After 21 months of investigation, Elections Canada has […]
Robocalls: Mr. Sona goes to Ottawa
By Alison@Creekside Former Guelph Con Party communications director Michael Sona relates how he was sitting in his Hill office on Feb. 23 2012 when he was shocked to hear Sun News reporter Brian Lilley fingering him on air for the Guelph robocalls election fraud. Sona: “I contacted a few people at [Con] headquarters and I just said […]
Robocalls: So where were we?
By Alison@Creekside Three days before polls opened in the last federal election, Elections Canada officials were using the word “scam” to describe election irregularities, making this statement from the EC commish, throwing in the towel two weeks after the election even before any investigation had begun, all the more astonishing: Commissioner of Canada Elections May 16, 2011 […]
Elections Canada casts a wider net, finally
By David@Sixthestate.net The Council of Canadians has posted a new series of documents in relation to their robocall litigation. As you can see, they are attempting to get an affidavit from an Elections Canada investigator, and Elections Canada is attempting to avoid this. More intriguingly, though, another couple of warrants have been released in the […]
Life In Canada’s Small Government Dystopia
By David@Sixthestate.net The following post is deliberately alarmist. Orwellian, you might say. I’m not trying to paint a picture of what things are like in Canada right now, or even what I think they’ll be like in the near future. I’m not an idiot. But I do want to paint a picture of the sort […]
