Action Against Electoral Fraud at Parliament Hill with Elizabeth May
Channel: David Langer
Date: 2012-03-06

Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, stands in front of the Ottawa Canadian Houses of Parliament, during the Action Against Electoral Fraud protest on March 5, 2012, and despite the -24 °C temperature, stirs the crowds into a frenzy against election deceit:

I believe that the robocall scandal in Saanich-Gulf Islands in 2008 was a pilot project by shady operatives of some political orientation, and I don't know who it was so I'm not saying.. we know whoever did it had the motivation to assist a Conservative candidate, that does not mean we know who did it, I think it's very important to make that distinction. 

We need to get to the bottom of it, and Stephen Harper, as leader of the Conservative Party, but moreover as the Prime Minister of this country, should be just as upset about this as I am, he should be calling for an inquiry.. he should want to prove that his party had nothing to do with it and he should want to get to the bottom of what scummy activists who want to help him would have done this.

How did they do it, where did they get the money, where did they get the lists, these are questions that must be answered and they simply won't be answered without an inquiry.

We are not a banana republic. We allowed the RCMP, the State Police, to interfere in the 2006 election and nothing happened; in 2008 we allowed robocalls to affect the results in my riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands and nothing happened; in 2011 we had massive efforts at election fraud and every single call was a crime.

I want this Tough on Crime Government to get tough on electoral crime.