Canadian Democracy Loses - Court Rules: Yes, Election Rigged and Yes, There Is No Remedy

Breaking: major announcements on election fraud 

by Council of Canadians

May 31, 2013

I'm writing you with breaking news. At this very moment, the Council of Canadians and Peggy Walsh Craig, one of the eight individual voters who came forward to challenge election fraud head-on, are in Ottawa addressing media from across the country to make two major announcements.

It's only been a week since Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley ruled conclusively that "electoral fraud occurred during the 41st General Election."

Justice Mosley found that:

• An unprecedented, covert and widespread campaign of voter suppression was perpetrated on Canadian voters in the 2011 federal election.
• Canadians who indicated they would not be voting for the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) were specifically targeted.
• The most likely source of the data used to perpetrate this fraud was the CPC's own database.

"I feel vindicated by the ruling," Peggy said this morning. "In fact, we now know the fraud was much larger than anyone knew. Tens of thousands of Canadians received calls like I received, misdirecting them to the wrong polling locations, and that many Canadians had their votes stolen in the process."

In light of this, today's first major announcement is that Peggy and her fellow applicants will not appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. 

"You only appeal when you lose. We feel that we have taken this case as far as it can go. And we want to thank the Council of Canadians and the thousands of individual donors across the country who helped us pursue, and ultimately expose, election fraud."

While serious questions remain unanswered, namely who accessed the CPC's database to commit the fraud, a Supreme Court appeal will not deliver the remedy.

So the second major announcement this morning is that the Council of Canadians is stepping-up our pro-democracy campaign by now taking the fight to end election fraud to the steps of Parliament.

Today we're launching an urgent national petition calling on the Government of Canada to:

• Immediately hold a public inquiry to find and bring to justice the person or persons responsible for accessing the CPC's database to perpetrate the election fraud; and
• Swiftly table comprehensive electoral reform that protects Canadians from being victimized by election fraud again.

You've been a valued contributor to this crucial fight for democracy thusfar. Will you join us in taking this crucial next step? Please sign the petition right now. We're calling on all Canadians from across the country, across all political stripes and across generations to join in signing too.

Canadians are looking squarely at you, Prime Minister Harper, and expecting your government to be accountable and to take swift and meaningful action to end election fraud now.

This isn't over. Restoring our democracy has just begun.



Maude Barlow
National Chairperson