Conservative allegations that Elections Canada tipped off the media and the opposition Liberals to an RCMP raid on Tory Party headquarters so troubled Canada's Chief Electoral Officer that he sought ways to "kill" the story, internal documents reveal.
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In the days after the high-profile raid in Ottawa, the Tories charged that Elections Canada had ignored similar electoral ad spending transgressions by the opposition, and told the media and Liberals about the raid to maximize political damage.
"With regard to this allegation of [a] leak do you have any suggestion as to how we could kill it?" Mr. Mayrand asked in an e-mail dated April 18.
"If we can dispel this story [the leak], we will have only positive media coverage," replied Ms. Vézina, the associate deputy chief electoral officer in charge of political financing. "And the alternative is that we appear to be partisan or biased or vindictive and at the moment the media seem to believe we tipped off the CBC and the Liberals."
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The remaining documents show Elections Canada kept a close eye on media coverage of the raid and its political fallout. Summaries of blogs, websites and broadcasts were compiled.
Ominous, isn't it?
This only raises suspicions with respect to Mr. Mayrand and Elections Canada.
Sure, they deny the leak. They claim an "internal review" supposedly proves there was no tip-off. That's their claim.
They seem quite obsessed with what the People are learning about their agency. They obsess over what everyone says. Probably will even read this very blog post, big-brother-style. Hi there, you liberal fascists! Whazzup!
They stink.
I'm more than ever suspicious that they are indeed partisan, ideological and discriminatory. They deny it, of course. But leftists lie as naturally as a bear shits in the woods.
If they hadn't decided to discriminate against the Conservatives in the first place, then they wouldn't be having such inconvenience. But they made their decision.
