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Re:How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre by cryptoz on Saturday January 04, 2014 @10:39AM (#7011381)
It's not quite that simple, though. The Harper government has cheated in most of those elections - they were caught in 2006 in the In and Out scandal, but it carried no punishment and so nobody cared. They are also recently (2011) accused of using robocalls targeted at (elderly/non-conservative) voters, posing as Elections Canada, and telling voters to go to the incorrect polling station. This definitely happened, and a few Conservatives are implicated, but to what extent it affected the elections and to what high level of power the order came from is being investigated still (by those appointed to Elections Canada by Stephen Harper).

Canada may have elected the Conservatives - or we may have never voted them in to power at all. It's tough to tell because they cheat in every election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_and_Out_scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Canadian_federal_election_...

Re:How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre by triplesec on Saturday January 04, 2014 @10:43PM (#7014416)
It does appear the Canadian conservatives have been learning from their brethren to the south: Karl Rove started the worst of such election abuses in the primaries against McCain in 2000.