OTTAWA — The Bloc Quebecois filed a police complaint over what it described as sabotage in one of four federal byelections Monday.
The Bloc says it contacted police after someone impersonated one of its members in a phone call Monday to voters in eastern Quebec. It says someone pretending to be Bloc MP Christiane Gagnon left bizarre, recorded messages urging people to vote for her colleague Nancy Gagnon.
Nancy Gagnon is hoping to hold the Riviere-du-Loup-area riding for the party, in a hotly contested race against the Conservatives.
The riding is considered a potential bellwether and victory would be considered a huge coup for the Tories.
The Bloc says someone pretending to be their Quebec City MP left halting, unprofessional-sounding phone messages urging people to vote for the Bloc - and it says the calls were designed to leave a negative impression of the party.
The MP filed a police complaint, party president Hugues Belzile signed an affidavit, and the party is also complaining to Elections Canada.
"What we want is an investigation to know who's behind this operation," Christiane Gagnon said in an interview.
Reported by The Canadian Press.
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waterbaby
2 years ago
deja vu
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Federal-Politics/2008/10/14/SuspiciousCall/
mcdull
2 years ago
Looks just like the BC
Looks just like the BC riding with West and Lunn
RossK
2 years ago
Rosie Barton Had A Post Up At CBC Poli-Blog...
...before the CP (ie. not-blogging) wire story yesterday in which she says that the Cons have admitted to robo-calling in that riding.
What they have not done, however, is admitted to this, specific type of no-good, very-bad, alleged robo-calling....
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freebear
2 years ago
Just impersonating one MP!
I would suggest that on any given day in the House of Commons many are impersonating an MP because they are behaving like children!