[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-homepageWho 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