The latest scandal plaguing the Conservative Party of Canada is just another indication of their true fraudulent colors.
Substantive evidence suggests that "robocalls" were made on behalf of Conservative agents (the nature of the link to the party is yet to be ascertained) to mislead electors on the precise location of their polling office (Globe and Mail, 25. 02. 2012).
It is apparent that the only plausible motive for doing this was to prevent those targeted voters (probably identified through their campaigning software as Liberal or NDP electors) from casting their vote which would have favored the rival candidate.
To take the reasoning to its natural conclusion, as in a syllogism, this amounts to election rigging.
That the Conservatives take democracy rather lightly had already been demonstrated, over time, in various instances. That they could go this far, however, is not only disturbing: it is criminal. And it is no coincidence that the incident is being investigated by the RCMP!
At the same time, this is not entirely unexpected, recalling the bogus telephone polling that was conducted in the riding of Montreal Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, spreading erroneous rumors of his resignation only a few months after the May elections).
Liberal leader Bob Rae has compared this to the infamous practices of former US President Richard Nixon. It is probably reductive.
In only a few years, the Conservatives have, and the list is not exhaustive, prorogued parliament to conceal the findings of a parliamentary commission, conducted character killings on their opponents, eliminated the public financing of political parties hoping to undercut the survival of those rival organizations, and now we learn about their election rigging practices.
This latest episode only confirms our previous analysis (See the post for December 3, 2011): Stephen Harper has finally brought Putinism to Canada. And this, by all means, we could do without.
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