Who’s really behind “Decline Your Vote” and why you should be skeptical

Published June 11, 2014

A campaign picked up steam in the dying days of the Ontario election campaign to encourage voters to decline their ballot. But has this been an authentic expression of voter apathy or, as some critics say, a manipulative voter suppression tactic to tap into voter cynicism to give Ontario PC Tim Hudak a boost on […]

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 […]

The ultimate list of quotes on why the Unfair Elections Act is dangerous

Published April 3, 2014

The complaints against the Conservative government’s Unfair Elections Act just keep mounting. And in the face of the barrage, Pierre Poilievre, the Minister for Democratic Reform, continues to defend the bill, even calling it “terrific.” Here’s the truth about this “terrific” bill, courtesy of measured bureaucrats, electoral experts and scholars. What Elections Canada says: On […]

Conservatives making supernatural claims about voter fraud

Published March 26, 2014

We could all be living through an episode of the X-Files right now. Or, the Conservatives have no evidence of the voter fraud they claim the Unfair Elections Act will fix, so they’ve decided to just make up phony stories. First, Conservative MP Brad Butt got himself in trouble when he said he personally witnessed thefts of […]

Harper government’s “leap of logic” to justify voter suppression

Published March 15, 2014

Poor Pierre Poilievre. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s point man on the government’s proposed elections act has just been called out, again, by yet another expert. The smack down on Saturday by Harry Neufeld has got to really hurt, though. That’s because Poilievre, minister of state for democratic reform, cites a Neufeld report at every opportunity to justify […]

Tories outdo themselves in trying to silence Elections Canada chief

Published March 6, 2014

It’s usually hard to get people excited about Parliamentary procedural shenanigans, but the Harper government managed to do that on Thursday with a move called “sleazy” and “scandalous.” The Conservatives appeared to be bending over backwards to keep Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand from testifying for 90 minutes at a House of Commons committee about […]

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