Vitor Marciano Gets Results

The Evil Empire strikes back.

Yeah, thanks Jean-Pierre. This is almost as good as his hastily-prepared press conference to defend Chretien's testimony at Gomery.

It is quite possible that Elections Canada was ordered to obstruct or conceal this information on orders from the PMO.

If so, this raises serious concerns about Elections' Canada role as a politically neutral organization.

If Elections Canada obstructs or conceals this sort of campaign finance information, it does so in violation of its own mandate and laws regarding access to information.

If it does so specifically to further the interests of the governing political party, it compromises its legitimacy as a neutral overseer of the federal electoral process.

And in so doing, it compromises the legitimacy of the electoral process and results themselves.

It raises this troubling question: if Elections Canada can manipulate campaign finance figures to help the governing party, can it also manipulate the vote?

Elections Canada you say,
Well how about the CBC
On the same note that Colin sounded.
The CBC used to have a forums board that was a lot of fun to post on.
It was the kind of site that ran various news articles on all sorts of topics with a link to the forum similar in design to this one.
It was always the political news stories that dominated discusion and almost became a one topic site.
During the run up to the last federal election when adscam broke , it turned into a blood bath of liberal slagging.
Any brave liberal backers where carved to pieces when they dared to explain why they thought the lieberals deserved another chance.
Many past liberal backers wrote testimonials of their absolute shame of the lieberal party and swore to never vote for the rotten bastards .
It was really quite encouraging.
Then someone made it dissapear.
poof

I agree with you there richfisher....I used to post on that site. I also posted on the site called "@theEnd" and that was cancelled after a few months for similar reasons.....people expressing NON-Liberal views.

Somethings rotten in the state of Denmark....and it's not just Alfonso.

On another note....I just sent them a nasty email.......and even that function is no longer working. I guess they can only transmit......since answering questions during this "testing" period may prove problematic.

I think it would be worth it to try to organize some sort of concerted email campaign to Elections Canada .

Forget emails. You need to call your local talk radio people, media, etc. Call in on open line shows, whatever it takes.

"The Search by contributions across all political entities is currently undergoing further tests and is not available."

The database containing the IP addresses of everyone who used our website to search for Liberal Party donors is also undergoing, um, testing and will be made available [to the people who need to know] in good time.

Would it not be a piece of short work for some freedom-loving computer geek to download the raw information from EC and make it available (and searchable) on another web site? Registered in, say, Tuvalu? Or even a big honking text file (sorted by donor's last name) distributed through P2P? Or would it be a violation of copyright or privacy for Canadians to learn who has purchased their freedom, unless filtered through "official" sources?

Clever Monkey: Go for it.

Let the sunshine in. Mrs. Havisham (Charles Dickens) needs to come out.

An alpha version of the Unofficial Elections Canada Search Tool is available over on my site now. Lots of limitations and shortfalls - but hey, I only had a weekend, so it's a nice start.

Here's the link to the post explaining what I have thus far:
http://tinyurl.com/4ovam