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PostPosted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 6:53 am
 


Curtman Curtman:
Conservative MP backtracks on claims he personally witnessed voter fraud
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“One of the things that I have seen is I’ve seen on mail delivery day, when the voter cards are delivered to community mailboxes in an apartment building, we often find that many of them are actually just discarded. They’re in the garbage can or in the blue box. I have actually witnessed other people coming in, picking up voter cards, going back to, I guess, whatever campaign of the candidate they support, and actually handing out those voter cards to other individuals, who then walk into a voting station with a friend of theirs that vouches for them with no ID,” Mr. Butt said on Feb. 6.

On Monday, Mr. Butt stood up in the House of Commons to say that wasn’t true, adding he wanted to correct the record to say that he had not personally witnessed such fraud. He gave no details on what he had witnessed, or why he’d made the statement in the first place.


ROTFL

But...but...but.. It cudda happened...cudda....





PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 6:53 am
 


Canadians believe Tory election act settling scores: Delacourt
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Nearly two-thirds of Canadians believe that the ruling Conservatives are settling political scores with their Fair Elections Act, a new poll has found.

And that skepticism about the motives of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government only rises among people who say they’re “fairly” or “very” familiar with what’s in the bill, according to the poll, conducted by Angus Reid Global.

“The more Canadians are aware of the Fair Elections Act, the more they oppose it,” is the headline on the poll findings, which were shared with the Star in advance of their release on Friday.

There are several bleak realities — not just for the Conservatives, but for citizens in general — in these poll results.
Only 20 per cent of respondents could claim they were in any way familiar with legislation that deals with our most basic right to vote.

Nevertheless, knowledgeable or not, 62 per cent said the bill was being introduced because “the Conservative government is motivated politically and dislikes Elections Canada.” Among those more well-acquainted with the legislation, that suspicion rises to 69 per cent.

The poll was conducted online with 1,511 Canadians of voting age on Feb. 21, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

No one should be surprised by now that Canadians have tuned out of the fine details of legislation before the Commons or politics in general, so the 20 per cent figure is not that jarring.

But the widespread sentiment about what motivates this government — all politics, all settling scores with enemies, all the time — is the worrying bit.
...
A Conservative friend of mine noted a couple of weeks ago how quickly people rush to assume the worst from the PMO these days in the day-to-day political business around Ottawa. Suggestions of dirty tricks? Leaks of personal information (such as the moving expenses of retired Gen. Andrew Leslie)? Tax audits of charities?

It’s usually chalked up to some kind of political vendetta by the highest office in the land.

Of course, the PMO often obliges this speculation by confirming it — including “enemy lists” in briefing books for new ministers before the July shuffle, for instance.

On Wednesday, the prime minister’s spokesperson, Jason MacDonald, said Liberals and New Democrats had been excluded from a delegation to Ukraine more or less because the government didn’t like them.

As any first-year political-science student can tell you, however, the privilege of being in government comes with the responsibility to deal with people you don’t know or even like.

Early after Harper came to power eight years ago, and the signs of the mean streak first emerged, Conservative spinners told us that this prime minister aspired to be respected, not liked. He would do that by showing no favour to friends — having no friends at all, in fact — and by keeping his cold gaze focused on the job. If you got in his way, you’d find yourself under a bus.
The immediate gains from this approach are obvious, in political terms.

The cumulative, long-term effects are emerging though. The ever-growing list of “enemies’ of the government — Liberals, New Democrats, public-service watchdogs, journalists, environmentalists, election officials, charities — expect to find themselves on Harper’s bad side.

But this newest poll shows that a large number of non-political citizens, armed only with their voting rights, may expect to find themselves on the wrong side too.

Our democratic life can go on, whether or not the public likes, respects or even pays attention to the people in power.
But when two-thirds of the public expresses doubts about the fairness of future elections, that’s a problem — not just for Conservatives, but to the institution of government altogether.


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[quote="CurtmanOn Monday, Mr. Butt stood up in the House of Commons to say that wasn’t true, adding he wanted to correct the record to say that he had not personally witnessed such fraud. He gave no details on what he had witnessed, or why he’d made the statement in the first place.[/quote]

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The G&M story is way too gentle.

I will add to this ..............




It's hard to imagine a more outrageous performance in a Canadian parliament, or any parliament, than the one the Con MP Brad Butt offered up the other day.

By first announcing that he had "personally witnessed" people picking voter cards out of the garbage, and using them to commit electoral fraud.
And a few days later admitting he LIED.

But unfortunately for our democracy there is more than one Con clown. And the latest Con clown show stars Peter Van Loan....


For have you ever seen anything more oily or outrageous?

But of course, they may be Con clowns, but they are trying to steal the next election, like they tried to steal the last one.

They are the enemies of democracy. We must do whatever we can to stop them.

And in the name of human decency.

We can't get rid of them soon enough...


http://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/stop-us ... w-homepage



Who would dare claim, as only he could, that Butt shouldn't be held in contempt of Parliament for blatantly lying, as the opposition is demanding.

He should be PRAISED for correcting the record.


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As everyone is, I am sure, aware, the presumption in this House is that we are all taken at our word, that the statements we make are truthful and correct. That we are given the benefit of that doubt brings with it a strong obligation on us, in the cases where a member misspeaks, to correct the record so that nobody is left with inaccurate perceptions.
In this particular instance, the member for Mississauga, has done exactly that. Having misspoken in this House and having realized his comments were in error, he has come to this House and corrected the record.



http://openparliament.ca/debates/2014/2 ... an-loan-1/



Without mentioning that the only reason Butt fessed up was because he was busted after claiming there were THOUSANDS of cases.

Even though after extensive research by the Con Ministry of Democratic Reform aka The House of Poutine, he was only able to come up with the sorry case of these two clowns.





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Two Montrealers have been given a slap on the wrist for taking part in a voting hoax that was featured on a popular French-language comedy show. Laura-Emmanuelle Gagne and Simon Poulin each received an extra voter information card prior to the 2011 federal election.
One was for their own electoral district and another was for a neighbouring district. They cast a ballot at two different polling stations to prove a point, with both spoiling their second ballot.




http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/elections-ca ... -1.1536139





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