The Council of Canadians and the seven ridings When it was first reported that the applicants in this case were requesting information from Elections Canada, it was suggested that EC was going to defer to the court and the matter would be considered at the hearing scheduled for next month.
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Peace, order and good government, eh?: Campaign Capers: The week in review
The search for Pierre Poutine Even among those who are fervently hoping that the perpetrator of all those fraudulent phone calls in Guelph is found, I can imagine two distinctly different reactions to the news that the RCMP is now directly involved in the investigation. The first is: what the
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Elections Monitoring Right Here In Canada blogging
Now with subtitles. The Del Mastro campaign contributions Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is staying out of Dean Del Mastro’s business. Nicholson’s response to a request from NDP MP Charlie Angus to refer the investigation into alleged attempts to circumvent campaign donation limits to the Direct of Public Prosecutions was unequivocal.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday afternoon Elections Canada blogging
Elections Canada, Dean Del Mastro and the Supreme Court of Canada have all been very quiet as far as the stories I’ve been tracking in these regular Friday posts are concerned. In fact, there are only two parties who have anything to say. The first is Steven Shrybman, the lawyer
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Scrutinizing the Scrutineers blogging
The two major media pieces on the stories I’ve been following in these Friday morning posts were both more about Elections Canada itself than about the events EC has been investigating. (Interestingly enough, neither actually involves robocalls.) Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the Liberal who was defeated in Etobicoke Centre last year and
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
The legal challenge sponsored by the Council of Canadians to the federal election results in seven ridings is still alive. The Conservatives had argued that the suit should be dismissed before it really started and on three different counts. Federal prothonotary Martha Milczynski ruled differently yesterday on two of those
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Electoral Hanky-panky blogging
Apparently Dean Del Mastro has had a change of heart. With regards to the investigation into his 2008 campaign spending, the MP had insisted repeatedly that he wasn’t prepared to meet with Elections Canada on their terms. But it was reported last Friday afternoon that he’s now prepared to do
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Baseless Smears and Allegations blogging
Remember Guelph? That was the original focus of the Elections Canada investigation into fraudulent phone calls but it seems like such a long time ago it may be difficult to remember. So here’s a reminder. Kornelis Klevering knows it will have little impact on his own numbers, but the local
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Dude, Where’s My Democracy? blogging
If there’s been any news on the original Elections Canada investigation into fraudulent robocalls, I’ve missed it. But once again, there have been developments on related fronts. There was a preliminary hearing this past week in the matter of the seven ridings whose outcome is being challenged by voters with
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Adventures with Elections Canada blogging
I guess I should thank McGregor and Maher for breaking some stories over the last couple of days so I’d have something to write about. The big news involving the main robocon story is the retirement of Commissioner of Canada Elections William Corbett, the official who directly oversees Elections Canada
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Journamalism: Leave poor Dean alooooooone!
Tory MP Del Mastro hounded on the Hill OTTAWA – Election spending questions are hounding a Tory MP on Parliament Hill. The Liberals are calling on Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro to appear before a the ethics committee to explain news reports alleging that he signed a $21,000 personal cheque
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon etc. blogging
About three weeks ago the Conservative Party presented a Federal Court with a 690 page affidavit designed to demonstrate that the Council of Canadians has been mean to Conservatives. And since that nasty Maude Barlow and her union-elite-loving lawyer actually have opinions about things, they should be disqualified from sponsoring
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Is that really your final answer, Dean?
Another day, another Dean Del Mastro story. Today it was the prime minister himself who stood up in the House of Commons to assure us all that there’s nothing to the suggestion that his parliamentary secretary violated election law in the 2008 campaign. And where Del Mastro had originally promised
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: A bit of Friday Robocon blogging
I usually do this in the morning. It would be neat if the reason I’m behind schedule is because there’s so much news regarding the case of the fraudulent phone calls but, sadly, no. All we’ve heard is news about the money Elections Canada is forecasting that they’ll be spending
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand testified before a parliamentary committee on Tuesday and the media reports on his appearance seem to have created some confusion. Mayrand had originally suggested that he would update that committee on the Robocon investigation in June — this month. But he indicated on Tuesday that
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
It’s interesting that in the course of accusing participants in legal proceedings of abuse of process, the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) is appealing to guilt by association. And it was nice of everyone to ensure that there was a big development in this story just in time for a
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning No News Isn’t Necessarily Good News blogging
A few minutes after I posted last Friday’s installment, the CBC posted their own report on what were the latest developments at that point. Most of it was a rehash of the other stories I noted last week but in light of a subsequent report, this seems worth noting: Conservative
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday Robocon rant
This post will be a little short on details but it will provide the links so you can follow them and fill in the blanks if you don’t get the references. The main point is that I’m joining with bloggers at The Sixth Estate, Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff (any number of
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: A little Friday morning Robocon blogging
According to someone who knows a bit about using telephones to suppress the vote, what happened in last year’s federal election campaign was “a fairly sophisticated operation” that was likely based on lessons learned in American political campaigns. That’s from a former Republican political operative named Allen Raymond who served
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday morning Robocon blogging
I don’t often write about polls but I’ll make time for this one. In support of their lawsuit contesting the results of last May’s federal election in seven ridings, the Council of Canadians commissioned EKOS Research Associates to do a study. EKOS investigated the occurrence of fraudulent phone calls in
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