The truth will make you free: that is why it must be delayed.

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Whoever thinks that Harper is trustworthy must have rocks in their head or be a paid actor for an ad. The dirt about the Conservative election scandal will not be revealed now until after many people have already been scammed by a well funded Conservative campaign. However anyone should be able to see calling the election is in itself a betrayal of Harper's own new fixed election law. There is nothing preventing Harper from continuing on governing until the opposition defeats him. He can't prevent that and this would salvage his integrity. However, he doesn't care about integrity. He cares about power and he thinks he can fool the masses into giving him a majority or at least an increase in seats and an election that will bankrupt the Liberals. He can't morally bankrupt the Liberals. They have already done that themselves.


Delay in election spending case may benefit Tories
Tue Sep 2, 6:26 PM
By Tim Naumetz, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Elections Canada has served notice it plans to introduce potentially damning information from an investigation of 2006 Conservative election advertising into a court case over the affair.
With Prime Minister Stephen Harper poised to call another election, the development adds a new dimension to a Federal Court court action that has been dragging on for more than a year.
But court documents also reveal the Conservatives have successfully delayed their final argument in the court case until Monday when the campaign for the next election is expected to begin.
The timing could benefit the Tories, since the delay means a responding final argument from Elections Canada will likely not be entered in the court file until after the anticipated election date of Oct. 14., opposition MPs say.
The lawyer for Elections Canada, Barbara McIsaac, wrote a court official last week to give notice she intends to introduce an Elections Canada affidavit and background information that convinced a judge to authorize a warrant to search Tory headquarters last April.
The affidavit, which includes allegations the Conservatives shifted ad expenses to election candidates to skirt the party's $18.3-million campaign expense limit for the 2006 election, has up to now not been entered as evidence in the court case.
Opposition MPs say the strategy may bolster Election Canada's side in the court case, but expressed surprise at the delay in final arguments with another election approaching.
Michel Decary, the lawyer for Conservative campaign agents who took Elections Canada to Federal Court over the affair, asked for the delay because a fellow lawyer working on the case is recovering from surgery.
A court official granted the extension over McIsaac's objections.
Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc accused the Conservatives of using the tactic in an attempt to delay Elections Canada's final arguments until after the election.
The Conservatives were scheduled to submit their final briefs last Friday, with Elections Canada originally scheduled to respond by Oct. 11. That date has been delayed to Oct. 21.
"It's an attempt by the Conservatives to manipulate the court system to serve their own ends," said LeBlanc.
New Democrat MP Pat Martin also accused the Tories of sabotaging the Elections Canada court filing.
"The Conservatives have manipulated the court dates just like they manipulated the election date, so the public will only hear their side of the story before we go to the polls," said Martin.
The case involves the so-called Tory "in-and-out" scheme, specifically $1.3 million worth of spending on radio and television advertising for the 2006 vote that Elections Canada refused to recognize as legitimate expenses for 67 Conservative candidates.
The electoral agency says the expenses should have been attributed to the party's national campaign, which would have brought the Tories $1.1 million over their legal spending limit.
The federal elections commissioner launched an investigation into the spending in May last year. The Conservatives took Elections Canada to court in an attempt to force the agency to recognize the expenses and reimburse candidates for part of the spending.
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