"In Guelph, a riding the Conservatives hoped to take from the Liberals, voters received recorded calls pretending to be from Elections Canada, telling them their polling stations had been moved. The calls led to a chaotic scene at one polling station, and likely led some voters to give up on voting."
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I can hardly believe you're still so naive as to believe this wasn't official CPC policy. After everything they've done (remember Chuck Cadman) and everything we've witnessed with our own eyes (no other way to describe it except bullying) this fits the model exactly. They have proven in every election that they are willing to do whatever it takes to win, election laws be damned.
Ask Irwin. He can also tell you about the real CPC, not the fantasy party you still seem to believe in.
The official CPC policy is that everything is the fault of a junior staffer that can be thrown under the bus.
(In at least one case, they were simply hired back once all the attention died down.)
Two elections ago in 2008, there was the Gulf Islands riding incident, where robocalls were made saying that the NDP candidate, Julian West, who had in fact withdrawn his candidacy, was still running.
The Liberal Candidate, Briony Penn, lost to Garry Lunn. The withdrawn NDP candidate got more votes than expected.
Elections Canada did a very toothless investigation.
I'm sure it wasn't official policy. Neither was the Watergate break-in and cover-up. These things are never "official" policy. That doesn't mean that orders didn't come from on high to do this, because no way was it just some schmuck press assistant on the CPC Guelph campaign acting on his own.
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