Going to take more than that. We need to stop foreign "charities" like the Tides and the Oak Foundation from funding special interest anti-oil groups and influencing Canadian domestic resource development. This is where the real money comes from. Until we fix this foreign attack on our political resource development, it's only going to get worse.
TRUE DAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our climate moron David Suzuki has ADMITTED taking several million dollars......................................
from Yankee "super pac" units like Tides during the lead in to the 2015 election!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if they will give him much more cash now that he has been EXPOSED..................................
as a PAID SHILL for Yankee LIE-berals??????????????????????????????????????????
Our electoral process is under attack by BOTH foreign and domestic enemies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One has only to look at the poisoned propaganda that people like hemer-HOID and Nut Zone Doug are spouting to see the problem!!!!!!!!!
Or we could look at the Six Hundred Million Dollar LIE-beral SLUSH Fund.............................................
that is being given out to media outlets "that LIE-berals trust"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With that $6 hundred million dollars being handed out ..........................................
with the aid of people like UNIFOR UNION HOG Jerry Diaz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes LIE-berals are defending democracy by granting GOBS OF GRAVY...............................................
to GROSSLY PRIVILEGED civil service union HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In defiance of how ordinary Cdns feel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And we should look at the UGLY HABIT of "vouching" that IS STILL PERMITTED for federal elections!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Consider the consequences of this VOTE RIGGING MESS as described by a guy who watched it first hand:::::
We’ve been hearing an awful lot lately about the federal government’s proposed Fair Elections Act.
Mostly, we’ve been hearing complaints, and mostly, the complaints have been about the Conservatives’ intention to ban the practice of vouching for voters lacking proper identification on election day.
Vouching means that if you can’t prove where you live, you can have someone else swear an oath that you’re the person on the voter list.
About 120,000 Canadians use it, mostly elderly or aboriginal. Several provinces, including Ontario, have banned the practice in provincial elections.
I’ve yet to meet any ordinary citizen whose eyes don’t glaze over when you mention vouching, but opposition politicians, Elections Canada and the media all care a great deal about it and so week after week, the complaints flow.
But considering the uproar, I haven’t heard of anyone interviewing people who actually do the work on Election Day — the army of temporary Elections Canada employees who hand you your ballot.
I was one of them during the last federal election and let me be the first to tell you vouching stinks. It’s an open invitation to voter fraud. The sooner they ditch it, the better.
Case in point: Charlie. He limped in to the small-town, three-poll church hall, leaning heavily on the arm of a taxi driver who steered him over to me, the deputy returning officer for his poll. Charlie was 95 and had no identification. He didn’t know he needed it and didn’t have any.
I said I needed ID. People started getting mad.
“This is Charlie,” someone said. “Everybody knows Charlie. He’s been voting here for 70 years.” “Fine,” I said, “But I don’t know who he is and I’m the one who needs to know.” By that time, everyone in the place was shouting. So I asked for someone to vouch for him.
Suddenly, things got very quiet. Seconds dragged by; the lineup behind Charlie got longer and longer. Finally, the taxi driver said he’d vouch for him.
Now here’s the thing about Elections Canada’s temp staff: The DROs are chosen from a list provided by the party who won the election the last time. The poll clerks who assist them come from the party that finished second.
My poll clerk was a Liberal. Maybe she was deliberately causing trouble or maybe she was genuinely confused but in the end, no paperwork was done.
Charlie voted, but there’s no record of what transpired.
Had the election been in dispute, or had Elections Canada chosen to check my riding for potential fraud, there was no trail to follow.
To this day, I don’t know for a fact if Charlie was really Charlie.
The same scene played out several times that day, one involving a woman who appeared to be out of it and whose son may have voted for her. Again, no paperwork.
This could be one reason Elections Canada says there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud. It may in fact happen, but there’s no evidence there was a problem in the first place.
A handful of votes in my poll, multiplied by several hundred polls in my riding, becomes a lot of votes.
In big cities? In those condo canyons where no one knows anyone? Voter fraud could happen quite easily.
There are other voting day problems the Fair Elections Act could correct but vouching is the big one.
Get rid of it and let voters use their voter identification cards instead.
