So, Christian Conservative is valiantly trying to go with the notion that somehow Elections Canada is picking on the poor Conservatives and is biased/full of Liberal moles/hates free speech, etc etc. etc.
The impression I get from his blogpiece is that apparently Pierre Poilievre under the cover of parliamentary immunity quoted out of Hansard is an authoritative source for that theory.
Let me help you out Christian Con; Pierre P. is NOT a credible source. He’s been the point man on this for the Cons. since this scandal started, and neither do the media believe him outside of the National Post editors, nor do the overwhelming majority of Canadians believe him. Elections Canada is a world-wide respected federal agency helping to observe elections everywhere and help other countries with making sure their own elections will run fairly, and now the Cons. and their Kool-Aid supporters are trying to advance the theory to the Canadian public that they’re biased and not credible? Yea, that will work.
Secondly, In-and-out isn’t about advertising, and it’s not about restricting free speech (which the Cons. are bleating all over the place on the airwaves but curiously left that argument out of their lawsuit - interesting that.) It’s about attempting to circumvent the existing election laws to spend more money then they are legally allowed.
THAT is the reason they’re charged by EC with violating elections laws; they’ve been deemed by EC to have violated the election spending limits, while the other parties have been looked over and have been ruled to be fine - not because of some wild-eyed tin-hat conspiracy theory that the federal agency is full of Liberals/NDP’ers/CBC staff members trying to screw the Conservative Party of Canada (Did I mention that the current and previous EC chief electoral officer have both been appointed by Conservative governments? Yes, I did, but here it is again in case you missed it the 1st time around).
I hope I’ve cleared up Christian Cons. confusion on this matter. Do I expect it to help? Not really; there isn’t a federal agency out there that Cons. supporters don’t think have bogeymen hiding behind their doors.
Scott…..good blog(ya) but i would like to see the data that you claim the majority of canadains? did you perhaps mean the majority of canadian liberals that you talk to?