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Weekend, February 24-26, 2012 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Robocalls not a Tory tactic: PM Robocalls falsely advised voters Elections Canada had moved their polling stations In other cases, voters got harassing late-night or early-morning calls purporting to be from opposition SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an announcement at the Nunavut Arctic College in Iqaluit on Thursday.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper insists the Conservative party had nothing to do with a dirtytricks campaign aimed at discouraging opposition supporters from voting in last spring’s election. “I have absolutely no knowledge on anything about these calls, but obviously if there’s anyone who has done anything wrong we expect that they will face the full consequences of the law,” Harper told reporters during a visit to Iqaluit, Nunavut. But given his party’s history of illegal or questionable campaign tactics, New Democrats and Liberals aren’t buying it. They say the latest revelations are more proof that the Conservatives have systematically cheated and subverted the democratic process in order to win elections. They’re equating the matter to the notorious Watergate scandal that toppled former U.S. president Richard Nixon and they’re demanding a full criminal investigation. The opposition charges came Thursday after a company that
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did campaign work for Conservatives, including Harper, was linked to harassing or misleading automated phone calls to voters in 18 hotly contested ridings prior to the May 2 election. Edmonton-based RackNine Inc. confirmed Thursday its automated dialling service was used to deliver the phoney messages and that Elections Canada and the police are investigating. “I was shocked and distressed to learn that some party had used our services to try and disrupt voting during the 2011 federal election,” RackNine CEO Matt Meier said in an email to The Canadian Press, adding his firm will work with police and Elections Canada, “to help identify the culprits.” Conservative party campaign manager Jenni Byrne said her party “ran a clean and ethical campaign and would never tolerate such activity,” although she left open the possibility that a rogue local party worker may have been involved. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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