Ottawa

Where does the electronic trail lead?

Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor break news of an Elections Canada investigation into deceptive phone calls made during the last campaign.

Elections Canada has traced fraudulent phone calls made during the federal election to an Edmonton voice-broadcast company that worked for the Conservative Party across the country. While the agency investigates, aided by the RCMP, the Conservatives are conducting an internal probe. A party lawyer is interviewing campaign workers to find who was behind the deceptive “robocalls.”

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