Democratic Reform Minister of State Pierre Poilievre has no comment on Elections Canada’s new high-powered advisory board to clean up elections.
Canada’s federal election system is unhealthy and Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand appears determined to fix it, but more than a-year-and-a-half after voting unanimously to create a law to address the robocalls scandal and prevent election fraud, the federal government has yet to table a bill and opposition MPs say they have “absolutely no confidence” one will be implemented in time for the next election campaign.
“We know that that the government is now well over a year overdue for getting legislation before the House. What can possibly excuse them for not having a bill now on the Order Paper and be ready to table it now, given that supposedly it was ready last May before some kind of caucus pushback caused the former minister to pull it back? Why can’t another five months be enough for them to be ready as soon as parliament returns which is now to table its bill? I have absolutely no confidence in this government and there’s nothing the minister has done to suggest he’s worthy of confidence either,” said NDP MP Craig Scott (Toronto-Danforth, Ont.), his party’s democratic reform critic.
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