Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, like most Canadians we do not want to make accusations but to get to some answers.
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I wrote Elections Canada on May 19, 2011, asking for a full national inquiry into what was clearly a troubling pattern of efforts to confuse voters via phone calls allegedly from Elections Canada.
I am sorry, I am having trouble being heard.
Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
The Speaker: Order, order. The hon. member for Saanich—Gulf Islands has the floor.
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, if they are looking for evidence, there was an abundance of evidence of a very disturbing event in the 2008 election in Saanich—Gulf Islands. Elections Canada and RCMP officials were unable to get to the bottom of it.
That is why I am asking if the Prime Minister…
The Speaker: The member is out of time. The hon. Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister.
Dean Del Mastro: Mr. Speaker, a B.C. Liberal candidate wrote in a letter to the editor that Liberals rely on First Contact. First Contact relies on patented technology. The patent and the server are based in the U.S.
That is very interesting because, when I review information on the Liberal Party and its efforts in British Columbia, I see that they have used this company quite a bit. It seems that they were robodialing quite a number of people on behalf of the Liberal Party. They were indicating that they were calling on behalf of the Liberal Party, because it appears that they were.
Nonetheless, the Liberal Party has conducted an unsubstantiated smear campaign. It is reprehensible.