The Council of Canadians is holding a news conference in Ottawa at 9 a.m. ET this morning to update reporters on its efforts to fight fraudulent telephone tactics during election campaigns.
Sandra McEwing, a voter in the riding of Winnipeg South Centre, and Peggy Walsh Craig, a voter from Nipissing-Timiskaming, are two of the eight Canadians whose names are on a legal challenge of the 2011 federal election result in six ridings. They'll be joined at the news conference by Garry Neil, executive director of the Council of Canadians.
The six ridings that remain in the court challenge are:
- Nipissing-Timiskaming (Ontario).
- Elmwood-Transcona (Manitoba).
- Winnipeg South Centre.
- Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar.
- Vancouver Island North.
- Yukon.
A seventh riding, Don Valley East, is no longer part of the legal case after the named voter was found not to live in the riding and therefore became ineligible to challenge the result.
Earlier this week, the advocacy group announced it's starting a hotline so voters in the three federal ridings where a byelection is currently underway – Durham (Ont.), Calgary Centre and Victoria – can report suspicious phone messages or live calls.
The byelection vote in those ridings is Nov. 26. The Calgary and Greater Toronto Area ridings were previously held by Conservatives, while the NDP is hoping to hold the seat in Victoria.
Suspicious activities should also be reported to Elections Canada, the group says, but "reports to Elections Canada are private, leaving the public in the dark about the nature or extent of any complaints," the group wrote in its press release Tuesday.
An access to information request obtained earlier this week revealed that Elections Canada received public complaints about robocalls giving false information about polling station changes as early as three days before the vote in the 2011 federal election.
Elections Canada has had more than 1,000 complaints from people in 234 ridings about phone calls that allegedly tried to direct voters to the wrong polling station.
Documents filed in Federal Court earlier this month show a company working for the Conservative Party, Responsive Marketing Group, made get-out-the-vote calls on behalf of Conservative candidates in a number of ridings, including five of six ridings in this Federal Court challenge.
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