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The Canada Elections Act provides two remedies for voter fraud. The first allows for the prosecution of the culprits. The other, and more important, remedy allows for taking the  spoils of such illegal activity -- seats in Parliament -- from those who benefitted from the fraud.

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Poor Stephen Harper.

It's just days since he pulled Peterborough MP Dean Del Mastro out of the dog house and appointed him Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Northern Economic Development and the development agencies for Southern and Northern Ontario.

Now the Commissioner of Canada Elections, Mr. Yves Côté, has laid four charges under the Canada Elections Act against Del Mastro.

Parliamentary secretaries are supposed to be understudies to cabinet ministers.

 Author update: 

I Do Not Accuse the Conservative Party of Canada of Voter Fraud

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You don't have to agree with Alberta’s right-wing Wildrose Party to admire the skill with which it stick-handled yesterday's revelation it had been fined $90,000 by the federal broadcast regulator for a series of improperly identified robo-calls made to voters during the 2012 election campaign.