By Montreal Simon When the story broke that the Australian attack dingo Lynton Crosby was working for the Cons, I was struck by how angrily the political thugs in the PMO reacted. The Con flak Kory Teneycke tried to play down the news, claiming first that Crosby was not here, and then that all he […]
Elections Canada
Key players missing from Robocalls trial
By Alison@Creekside At left is the draft statement robocall trial star witness and Guelph Con campaign worker Andrew Prescott sent to the accused, Michael Sona, in July 2013. Pic via Laura Stone at Global. Read it first. Really. Note reference to Nixon’s CREEP* and “widespread, national, well-organized scheme” and “not the work of any lone […]
Robocalls: Elections fraud? What elections fraud?
By Alison@Creekside It would be unseemly for a sitting government under the cloud of elections fraud and voter suppression in 200 ridings across the country to ram through the Fair Elections Act mainly benefitting themselves, so today Elections Canada Commissioner Yves Côté obligingly threw in the towel on any further investigation into what Federal Court Judge […]
Robocalls: Investigations are so harrrrrd
By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Despite audio evidence of widespread illegal robocalls, the Commissioner of Elections Canada has announced “no offenses committed.” Robo-call scandal fizzles out. Commish of Elections says no offenses committed, but notes investigation powers limited and info lacking. — Don Martin (@DonMartinCTV) April 24, 2014 Canadians have had a heaping helping of […]
Wright and Frum on the Republican dole
By Alison@Creekside In a week that featured . . . 1) Nigel Wright being let off the hook by the RCMP for bribing sitting legislator Senator Mike Duffy in spite of weeks of PMO discussions involving over a dozen senior party officials re buying Duffy’s silence, and 2) Senator Linda Frum making the most idiotic and widely-mocked attack on […]
“Fair” Elections Act heads to chamber of sober pre-thought
The monster Fair Elections Act, with its “sharper teeth, longer reach, and freer hands,” is being fast-tracked to the Senate even before it passes in the House of Commons because Steve is in a huge rush to ram it — and its accompanying muzzling of Elections Canada’s investigation into Con election fraud in the last election […]
“Fair” Elections Act: Poilievre on the mat
By Montreal Simon The one good thing about the foul Fair Elections Act is the way it has transformed Pierre Poilievre into a parliamentary punching bag. Because it seems that every day somebody is taking a shot at him and his bill. And today it was the election expert Harry Neufeld’s turn to tell Poilievre […]
Standing on the shoulders of Butt
By Alison@Creekside In the House on Monday, Con MP Laurie Hawn’s memory appeared to pick up where Brad Butt’s left off, as he repeated Butt’s earlier allegations — later retracted — about voter information cards being picked up from apartment building lobbies for fraudulent voting purposes. Hawn, as per the vid excerpt above: “In the 2006 […]
Fair Elections Act: Getting out the kid vote
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 […]
