Our dishonest election could have been prevented

Given the minority government, the next election could happen any time, so our election law needs to be strengthened as soon as possible to ensure our next election is more fair, honest, and democratic.

In what the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals called the 'Election Modernization Act' (Bill C-76), huge backwards steps were taken despite the protests of many experts and tens of thousands of Canadians.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DUFF CONACHER

November 4, 2019

OTTAWA—Upset at the rampant dishonesty during the recent election by politicians, and interest groups in their Facebook and Twitter posts? You should be—but you shouldn’t be surprised because changes the Liberals made to the election law encouraged that flood of false claims and made our elect...

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