Elections Canada paid Assembly of First Nations almost $1M for "voter outreach"
-- while key AFN members campaigned against Harper
Elections Canada offered a sole sourced contract worth nearly $1 million to the Assembly of First Nations to engage in voter outreach even as key members of the organization made highly partisan statements calling for the defeat of the Conservative government.
Documents obtained through access to information detail a contract worth up to $975,000 that included a clause calling for the AFN to be non-partisan while acting as a supplier of services to Elections Canada. Under a listing of “Minimum Essential Requirements” in the statement of work, Elections Canada included this statement, “Certification that they are able to comply with an avoidance of political partisanship provision.”
Despite the provision, key leaders of the AFN called for the Conservative Party to be thrown from power even as the organization they represented was working for Elections Canada to increase voter turnout among aboriginal voters.
Several of the comments were made from the main podium at the AFN annual general meeting in Montreal last July and reported on by major media outlets.
A lengthy article in The Globe and Mail quoted Derek Nepinak, the Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, “We all have the ability to cast a ballot to effect change in Ottawa. We can mitigate the damages by voting for a different government in this upcoming election.”
Nepinak also told the crowd that they need to make sure that when they returned home to their communities that the youth they represented were registered to vote.
Nepinak advocated voting strategically for the Liberal or New Democrat with the best chance of defeating the Conservatives. “Look to the polls to see who is closest to overthrowing the representative in blue. Is it going to be orange or is it going to be red?” he said.
“Strategically vote to make sure that blue doesn’t get in there. I have no qualms in standing here and saying I have lost all faith in this federal government in terms of listening to us and advancing our interests,” Nepinak was quoted as saying by Postmedia.
Read the whole thing here and then share it far and wide. You know the media party won't touch this.
Elections Canada has a history of going after Conservatives and looking the other way with everyone else. Remember all the extensions they gave to Liberal leadership candidates? What about deciding not to go after left wing groups that violated third party spending limits? It never happened. They won't act on this either. Unless they are forced to.
Elections Canada, watchdog my a..... - Small Dead Animals
-- while key AFN members campaigned against Harper
Elections Canada offered a sole sourced contract worth nearly $1 million to the Assembly of First Nations to engage in voter outreach even as key members of the organization made highly partisan statements calling for the defeat of the Conservative government.
Documents obtained through access to information detail a contract worth up to $975,000 that included a clause calling for the AFN to be non-partisan while acting as a supplier of services to Elections Canada. Under a listing of “Minimum Essential Requirements” in the statement of work, Elections Canada included this statement, “Certification that they are able to comply with an avoidance of political partisanship provision.”
Despite the provision, key leaders of the AFN called for the Conservative Party to be thrown from power even as the organization they represented was working for Elections Canada to increase voter turnout among aboriginal voters.
Several of the comments were made from the main podium at the AFN annual general meeting in Montreal last July and reported on by major media outlets.
A lengthy article in The Globe and Mail quoted Derek Nepinak, the Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, “We all have the ability to cast a ballot to effect change in Ottawa. We can mitigate the damages by voting for a different government in this upcoming election.”
Nepinak also told the crowd that they need to make sure that when they returned home to their communities that the youth they represented were registered to vote.
Nepinak advocated voting strategically for the Liberal or New Democrat with the best chance of defeating the Conservatives. “Look to the polls to see who is closest to overthrowing the representative in blue. Is it going to be orange or is it going to be red?” he said.
“Strategically vote to make sure that blue doesn’t get in there. I have no qualms in standing here and saying I have lost all faith in this federal government in terms of listening to us and advancing our interests,” Nepinak was quoted as saying by Postmedia.
Read the whole thing here and then share it far and wide. You know the media party won't touch this.
Elections Canada has a history of going after Conservatives and looking the other way with everyone else. Remember all the extensions they gave to Liberal leadership candidates? What about deciding not to go after left wing groups that violated third party spending limits? It never happened. They won't act on this either. Unless they are forced to.
Elections Canada, watchdog my a..... - Small Dead Animals