veiled voting debacle

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At the risk of turning ITQ into Inside the Canada Elections Act, I should point out that the lack of a forcible deveiling provision is actually almost entirely thanks to the government’s anti-in and out investigation filibustering at Procedure and House Affairs.

Xenophobes, start your engines — or, alternately, don’t. As much fun as it might have been to watch Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand makes mincemeat of MPs during last summer’s pre-by-election “emergency” hearings over the menace of veiled voters, I’m not sure how much more media coverage we need of Pumpkinhead and friends, since the law hasn’t changed.

Note to readers: For some reason, while watching Question Period this afternoon, I suddenly had the urge to repost this. I blame Peter Van Loan:

Note to readers: I suddenly felt the need to repost this from the macleans.ca archive: