Election call tapes being reviewed by Conservatives

[tuvor]

Source: CBC

The Conservative Party is reviewing tapes of every call made by the Responsive Marketing Group call centre in Thunder Bay, Ont., in the last election before Elections Canada investigators arrive next week, CBC News has learned.

Investigators are planning to interview the centre's staff, which the Conservative Party hired to make phone calls to identify and rally supporters in the 2011 federal election.

The news comes on a day when Conservative MPs' counterattack backfired after they accused the Liberals of being behind mysterious election calls — but mixed up two similarly named call companies, naming the wrong one as the smoking gun.

After a week of denials over the role the Conservative Party and a campaign team played in phone calls directing voters to the wrong polling station, and opposition party allegations over harassing calls in other ridings, Prime Minister Stephen Harper pushed back in question period.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/01/pol-robocalls-elections-canada.html

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If US DUers haven't noticed what's happening in Ottawa lately, well, it's been enough to make this Canuck forget all about US politics.

Harper no longer has control of the message, and it's been a joy to behold.

[Dawson Leery]

1. Has Harper really lost control of the message?

Which media besides the CBC and The Star are making a major issue of this matter?

[tuvor]

2. Which media?

Guess it depends what you consider "major".

Postmedia and the Ottawa Citizen broke the story last week, and the National Post and the Sun chain have been surprisingly unsupportive of Harper since. There are apologists at least at the Globe and Mail and undoubtedly elsewhere, but it's hard to hear them above everything else. Not to mention public reaction, at least the reaction that I've seen. YMMV.

All I can do is suggest you News Google harper and robocalls, and you can decide for yourself.