The Conservatives blamed robocalls on multiple parties, including:
Liberal Party (Dean Del Mastro, Mar5/12),
Elections Canada (Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott, Mar5/12),
a third party (Mike Duffy, Feb 27/12),
isolated incidents (Peter MacKay, Feb 27/12),
they do not know who was responsible (re Guelph, MP Dean Del Mastro, Mar 4/12).
MP Maurice Vellacott (Saskatoon-Wanuskewin)
explains that the Conservative Party’s central campaign office in Ottawa is in charge of all Elections Canada voter lists
and candidate voter
identification lists, including the addition of voter telephone numbers,
for all of the 308 Conservative candidate campaigns in federal
elections. (Mar 6/12)
Conservatives
refuse to make their phone lists public, and
demand the Liberals do (
they will), which sounds like Stratfor's strategy for scandals:
"Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations." (
Fred's Rule #2) And PM Harper
refuses to explain why Conservative MPs rejected an Elections Canada request to verify campaign financial returns. (Mar 7/12)
In 2008: "Robocalls the night before the election reached thousands of NDP
supporters to urge them to get out and vote for the non-existent
candidate." (more:
shady 3rd party organizations advertising for Lunn, Saanich-Gulf Islands)
But, war veterans are so... boring: sleepytime MP, Rob Anders, was asked to
resign from the Commons veterans affairs committee. His apology for "hacks" and "Putins" was
not accepted. (Why not just resign altogether, or
fire the bum.)
In 2007: "the courts overturned Anders’s acclamation and ordered a new nomination meeting after the judge determined the Conservatives had violated their own rules." Who is
Vitor Marciano anyway?