Will enough Conservatives stop acting like sheep to block the Unfair Elections Act?

Published April 15, 2014

Imagine if enough Conservatives MPs stop acting like sheep to help block the Unfair Elections Act? Or, Pierre Poilievre, the Minister of State for Democratic Reform, could just listen to the many critics and overhaul the legislation. On Tuesday, the Opposition stepped up its campaign against the bill, targeting individual Conservative MPs to break with the government to […]

Vengeance? Former Stephen Harper advisor says “bad blood” behind Elections Canada attack

Published April 9, 2014

Could this week’s all-out Conservative personal attack against the head of Elections Canada be about vengeance? That’s what Tory pundit Geoff Norquay suggested Tuesday night during a panel on CBC’s Power and Politics. You see, Chief Elections Officer Marc Mayrand, a critic of the proposed Unfair Elections Act, took on the Conservative Party a few years […]

Conservatives “at peace” with unanimous opposition to Unfair Elections Act

Published April 8, 2014

Canada’s Chief Elections Officer is a power-hungry guy who’s making bogus and “astounding” statements about the government’s proposed elections act to protect his budget and avoid accountability. That’s the latest assessment of Pierre Poilievre, the Harper government’s point man on the Unfair Elections Act, who used his appearance Tuesday at Senate hearings into the bill to launch […]

Is Pierre Poilievre helping Pierre Poutine?

Published April 4, 2014

Ever since the 2011 federal election, the Conservative Party has not been able to crack the case of fraudulent robocalls. The calls were orchestrated by party operative(s) likely using the internal party database to send non-conservative voters in Guelph to the wrong polling stations on election day. On Friday, Canadians were reminded that Elections Canada’s voter suppression […]

Watch an aboriginal woman school a Conservative MP about his privilege

Published April 3, 2014

All the experts agree: if you eliminate the practice of vouching, hundreds of thousands of people will be disenfranchised. But not just anybody. It will disproportionately affect low-income Canadians, students and aboriginals. On Thursday, parliamentarians heard directly from First Nations leaders about why the voter suppression provisions in the Unfair Elections Act will disenfranchise aboriginal voters. Their […]

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