Ottawa

The Harper government’s explanation

More on QP in a moment, but here—from Dean Del Mastro, in response to a question from the NDP’s Charlie Angus—is the closest the government side came to trying to explain all of the reports you’ve been reading of phone calls about polling stations.

I would say to this member that during the recent election Elections Canada has now confirmed that at least 127 late polling station changes were made affecting as many as 1,000 polls. We contacted our supporters to make them aware of those polling station changes so that they could cast their votes.

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