Harassing phone calls in Ajax-Pickering fit fraudulent robocall pattern, cost Holland his seat, says former Liberal MP

Mark Holland, who lost to former ambassador and Tory star candidate Chris Alexander by just more than 3,000 votes, says there were so many calls inundating the Ajax-Pickering, Ont., riding he does not believe the cost could have been covered by the local Conservative campaign, and that many or most of them must have come from outside the riding.

PARLIAMENT HILL—Former Liberal MP Mark Holland, whose Ajax-Pickering riding near Toronto was targeted for an all-out assault by the Conservative Party in last year’s federal election, says Liberal supporters in the district were “bombarded” with harassing phone calls that...

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