Vengeance? Former Stephen Harper advisor says “bad blood” behind Elections Canada attack
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 […]
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 back over the “in-and-out” election financing scandal.
The party was fined $52,000 for breaking election rules.
Watch Norquay, Stephen Harper’s director of communications when he was in opposition, talk about the connection between this “old bad blood” and the Canada Elections Act.
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