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Harper is election ready. Are his opponents?

With 10 months to go before the expected October 19, 2015 election, the Harper Conservatives are running full out for re-election. Their strategy is simple. First, satisfy the party base, the some 25 per cent of eligible voters who will turn up on election day and vote Conservative. Second, suppress the Liberal vote.

The current incentive for Conservatives to vote Conservative is the so-called "Family Tax Cut." The Conservative tax relief policy will be compared to the "NDP-Liberal coalition" which wants "to increase taxes and wreck business."

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Harper seeking new voter suppression powers in Bill C-50

Dylan Penner

| December 12, 2014

Is voter suppression becoming the new normal in Canada? Unfortunately, it looks like the short answer is yes.

The Harper government took the opportunity on Wednesday to commemorate International Human Rights Day by introducing new legislation that could make it much more difficult for Canadian citizens living abroad to exercise their right to vote.

Just like the so-called "Fair" Elections Act, this legislation could be unconstitutional.

Sona penalty does not reflect the true scale of election fraud

November 21, 2014 |

Michael Sona has been sentenced to nine months in jail with 12 months probation after being found guilty of participating in a voter suppression scheme in Guelph during the 2011 election.

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Doing democracy in Ontario: Voter suppression rears its head again

J. Baglow

| June 12, 2014

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How low has our political culture sunk? The Ontario election paints a dismal picture.

Dear Stephen Harper: this is how you actually stop voter fraud

Steven Shrybman

| February 12, 2014

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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.

Elections Act changes long overdue, but will they prevent fraud?

February 3, 2014 |

The unwillingness of the Conservatives to come clean and the inability of Elections Canada to hold them to account is unacceptable.

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Stephen Harper's very bad day: Charges against Dean Del Mastro and a new PBO report

Karl Nerenberg

| September 26, 2013

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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.

Conservatives fail to win 'outrageous' costs in latest election fraud court ruling

Council of Canadians

| September 18, 2013

Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley has ruled that the applicants in the recent high-profile election fraud legal challenge will not have to pay the Conservative Party $355,907 in legal costs, ruling on a reimbursement request that was filed this past June.

The Tory MPs wanted the nine individuals who launched the case to pay for the Conservatives' lawyers – even though they were the ones who needlessly drove up the cost by bringing multiple procedural motions to keep the case from being heard. At the time of his ruling, the judge called these delaying tactics "trench warfare."

Election fraud - it's time for accountability

Steven Shrybman

| June 3, 2013

Author update:

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

Election fraud finding by Federal Court points directly at Conservative Party

Council of Canadians

| May 24, 2013

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The Federal Court has found in no uncertain terms that widespread election fraud took place during the 2011 federal election. The ruling clearly states that "there was an orchestrated effort to suppress votes during the 2011 election campaign by a person with access to the [Conservative Party's] CIMS database."

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