Stephen Harper: “The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.”

Expect this 2001 refrain to be repeated in short order if the Robo-call scandal has legs.

“The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.” 

In 2001, Stephen Harper was president of the National Citizens Coalition. That was his opening line in a fundraising letter. 

His loathing for the election overseers was almost pathological, recalls Gerry Nicholls, the conservative commentator who

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