Michael Sona

Paul Wells on Nigel Wright, Mike Duffy and the RCMP

Also: Supreme Court hears Senate reform arguments, and robocalls trial continues

Happy Movember, #BaldforBieber & Save the Wesmen

The hunt for Pierre Poutine now includes a phoney YouTube video and anonymous senior Conservatives.

Whatever Peter MacKay said, Dean Del Mastro says the government doesn’t know what happened in Guelph.
Del Mastro again denied accusations from opposition parties that his party engaged in a voter suppression campaign, but told host Evan Solomon it appears that “what went wrong in Guelph was in fact untoward, it was intentional.”

“The allegations of what happened there [in Guelph] are serious. There seems to be an awful lot of evidence that people received these misleading calls,” said Del Mastro.

Whatever happened, the Conservatives had nothing to do with it

The departed Conservative assistant releases a statement to CTV.

Former Liberal MP Anthony Rota tells the CBC that people in his riding received calls, purported to be from Elections Canada, that direct them to incorrect polling stations.

Michael Sona, an executive assistant in the office of Conservative MP Eve Adams, has either resigned or been fired. And that may or may not have something to do with Elections Canada’s investigation into fraudulent calls made during the last federal election.

The Conservatives are challenging ballots collected at a University of Guelph polling station, this after a member of the local Conservative campaign allegedly tried to seize a ballot box.