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Toronto-headquartered Mainstreet Research, which is still recovering from its Calgary election debacle last fall, is gathering data about the Oct. 20 Vancouver election for what it called “Discussions Canada.”

The client was not revealed on the eight-minute automated poll on Sept. 5, which was notable for what was included and what was omitted. Listen to the recording below.  

The company led-off with questions about federal and B.C. party and leader voting preferences, then got down to business, asking about the most important issue in the civic election. Choices were, in order of appearance: housing crisis, Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, provincial housing speculation tax, downtown revitalization, property taxes, traffic congestion, safe streets, bicycle lanes, homelessness or another issue.

A Mainstreet Research poll asks about support for Justin Trudeau and Hector Bremner. (Twitter)

Choices for mayoral candidates were listed in alphabetical order (Hector Bremner, Ian Campbell, David Chen, Ken Sim, Kennedy Stewart, Shauna Sylvester, Wai Young), with a twist at the end. Instead of Fred Harding of Vancouver 1st, Maya Richards was named.

Then there were questions about voting for Bremner versus Sim and Sim versus Stewart. The obligatory support or oppose the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipeline expansion question was followed with whether the city has a role in stopping it.

Back to the big issue, housing, and whether to support or oppose the following: modular housing for the homeless; provincial government speculation tax; empty homes tax; building more housing to lower housing prices; and the “final issue,” a 50% speculation tax on homes sold unimproved within two years.

The latter is one of the first planks of Bremner’s campaign, revealed Sept. 4 on the Yes party’s Facebook page under the heading: “Made-in-Vancouver Speculation Tax.” 

“Yes Vancouver will begin to work with the province to introduce a true speculation tax for the city of Vancouver, taxing 50% of profits on the sale of unimproved residential housing, within 24 months of gaining ownership, including pre-sale assignments prior to ownership,” Bremner wrote.

Then, another question in Bremner’s ballpark: “Do you agree or disagree the mayor must have city hall experience?”

Bremner took advantage of low voter turnout and a left-wing split to win a seat on city council in a by-election last October. Nobody else has Vancouver city hall experience. Only Stewart and Young have been elected to public office, but as Members of Parliament.

Hot-button housing questions about banning foreign buyers or taxing them and charging them more, and preference for planning and zoning options, including whether to allow duplexes and townhomes in all neighbourhoods; 40 storey high-rise buildings downtown, 10-storey buildings near downtown, four-storey buildings in an outer ring and leave 10% single family remaining; or reduce density.

Mainstreet blew its predictions for the Calgary 2017 election.

Finally, the listener was asked whether he or she supports or leans towards, in order of appearance: Yes, Vision, NPA, Greens, Pro Vancouver, Vancouver 1st, Coalition Vancouver or undecided. Oddly, neither the left-wing COPE nor OneCity were included in the list.

And, the kicker, “How would you rate the performance of Gregor Robertson as mayor over the last term?”

Mainstreet conducted three polls for Postmedia, the Calgary Sun and Calgary Herald publisher, in 2017 that incorrectly predicted Bill Smith would defeat two-term incumbent Mayor Naheed Nenshi.

Last December, Mainstreet said it conducted an internal investigation that concluded the errors were neither intentional nor malicious. It missed contacting young voters “because they were harder to reach.”

The review also found shortcomings in robocall polling, known technically as interactive voice response.

“Although Mainstreet still believes it is viable with some adjustments detailed in [the internal review] report, declining response rates and a growing youth demographic that are harder to reach, mean that IVR is not the future of polling,” said a letter on the Mainstreet website from president Quito Maggi. “In addition to implementing the short-term recommendations of the report, Mainstreet is actively working on next-generation polling technology and continuing to strive to improve in every way.”

Listen to the Mainstreet Research Vancouver civic election robocall below. 

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The latest entrant in the race to unseat Lisa Helps as mayor of Victoria in the Oct. 20 civic election is a lobbyist who wants to push the pause button on bike lanes, but press fast forward on affordable housing.

Michael Geoghegan, 52, will announce his campaign on Sept. 5 in the shadow of the Parliament Buildings, where he came to work as a ministerial aide in the Mike Harcourt NDP government in the early 1990s. Since 1996, Geoghegan has lobbied municipal, provincial and the federal officials on behalf of a variety of clients, including the Council of Construction Trades Associations, Electrical Contractors Association of B.C., and Mortgage Brokers Association of B.C. He was asked why the public should trust a lobbyist to run city hall. 

“If you want to build more housing you pretty much need to vote for the guy who has got the connections to the housing sector to deliver that. For the rest of them it’s just a talking point, it’s not reality,” Geoghegan told theBreaker.

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“You can bet I will be using all those connections with one clear objective: increase the supply of affordable and low income housing. It’s not about me giving favours to X, Y and Z, it’s how can I increase the inventory.”

Geoghegan said that, if elected, he would quit his lobbying business and be a full-time mayor. He is open to the concept of a municipal lobbyist registry, like the ones that he applied to federally and provincially.

“Everyone is going to be treated with fairness, my number one loyalty is to the young couple who is looking for somewhere to live to raise a family, my loyalty is to the working person who can’t afford a place to live and needs a place to rent. That’s my number one loyalty.”

Geoghegan said the application process for residential housing needs to be streamlined to lessen delays and costs faced by developers. He points to Victoria suburb Langford as an example of less red tape and quicker approvals.

He fears that, without those changes, Victoria will become more like parts of Vancouver, “where you have neighbourhoods and entire runs of houses absent for most months of the year. Meanwhile we’re going to have parks full of people in tents and in campers on side streets. That’s a pretty dystopian, third world kind of city that I certainly wouldn’t want to live in. But that’s where we’re headed.”

Geoghegan also points to the downtown Victoria bike lane network, which has doubled in price to $14.5 million under Helps and could wind-up being more than $20 million. Geoghegan said he cycles to his Monday morning show on CFAX radio, but said dedicated routes should be relocated to secondary streets. He is taking aim at a planned bike lane down Wharf Street that would impede traffic going to and from the Harbour Air seaplane terminal. Floatplanes are integral to the business of government between downtown Vancouver and downtown Victoria, he said.

Helps made national news in August for ramming through the removal from city hall of the Sir John A. Macdonald statue with little public input. Geoghegan said he wants to take the 1982 work of sculptor John Dann out of storage and display it on the grounds of the Empress Hotel, Legislature or Beacon Hill Park because the good, bad and ugly of B.C.’s past should not be forgotten. “We need to own our history,” he said.

“We didn’t have a statue of him at city hall in terms of celebrating any of the things he did wrong, it was simply noting the interesting historical fact that for one of his terms in office he actually, technically was the MP from Victoria while he was the Prime Minister in Ottawa. We should relocate that statue and, maybe, to put it in its proper context, maybe we should have a statue of [Port Alberni-born] Kim Campbell there. She was also a Prime Minister from British Columbia. B.C. has a somewhat tenuous relationship in terms of electing prime ministers. John Turner was briefly Prime Minister of Canada as well.”

Geoghegan has served on the Langford planning and zoning committee and finished fourth in last fall’s Saanich city council by-election.

His platform also includes a free annual pass to city recreational facilities for children 18 and under, improving street light timing to enable better flow of vehicles, and a one-time fee for business licences to replace annual renewals.

Geoghegan and five others are vying to defeat Helps, who was elected in 2014. Candidates have until Sept. 14 to file papers with city hall. 

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A man was violently arrested Sept. 1 while jubilant, smart-phone-toting Vancouver Whitecaps fans were heading out of B.C. Place Stadium after the victory over San Jose.

Video clips posted to the VWFC Fans and Supporters group on Facebook by Zach Copland, obtained by theBreaker, show a Vancouver Police officer dealing briefly with a male near a door on level two. A B.C. Place security guard was also on-scene. She briefly attempted to stop a person from shooting video of the incident. Several workers with security contractor Genesis were also nearby.

The video shows the police officer throwing the male to the floor, face down, and restraining his hands.

VPD spokesman Const. Jason Doucette said that a police officer came across a security staffer speaking with a man outside an exit door near sections 202-203. The security guard was trying to explain the stadium’s no-re-entry policy. “The man did not want to hear about the policy and continued to insist he had to get back in to meet up with his group,” Doucette told theBreaker.

The police officer took over to reiterate the stadium policy and, Doucette said, tried to call the man’s group to arrange a meeting place. The man refused to listen, Doucette said.

He was cautioned at least three times that he had to leave the area because he was not allowed back in. Again, the man refused to comply so our officer took him by the arm to usher his away from the exit. The man began to actively resist the officer and was eventually arrested with the assistance of additional officers for breach of the peace,” Doucette said. “A taser was displayed by the lone officer during the confrontation, but he did not have to deploy it and no one was injured.”

The 36-year-old man was released a short time later at the stadium. Charges are not being recommended at this time.

On the Facebook group, a person who claimed to recognize the man said he was seen in the Curva Collective section earlier in the evening and was observed to be neither drunk nor belligerent. Another said he saw the person put his hand in the police officer’s face.

B.C. Place has deferred comment to the Vancouver Police. 

Doucette said the goal is to not have to use physical force and that most times speaking with a person will de-escalate a situation peacefully. “We will use only as much force necessary to gain control of a subject,” he said.

UPDATE (Sept. 20): theBreaker sought a copy of the incident report and related surveillance video under the freedom of information law. However, PavCo responded Sept. 19 to say that it is withholding those records because “there is an active and ongoing investigation by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner.” PavCo fears disclosing the footage at this time would compromise that investigation, but it vowed to revisit the decision after the investigation is concluded.  

OPCC director of operations and strategic initiatives Andrea Spindler refused to comment. 

Warning: video contains profanity.

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Schools open this week for 650,000 Kindergarten to Grade 12 students across British Columbia.

School board hopefuls around the province will also begin putting pencil to paper, because the filing window to run in the Oct. 20 municipal elections opens Sept. 4-14.

Norm Farrell is one of those running for office. Farrell has analyzed and criticized provincial issues, particularly BC Hydro, on his In-sights.ca blog for the last decade. Now the semi-retired accountant is vying for a seat on North Vancouver School board.

“I guess I got to the point where I felt like I wanted to contribute in a slightly different way,” Farrell told theBreaker.news Podcast host Bob Mackin. 

Farrell has seven grandchildren at schools in North Vancouver and he is particularly interested in services for special needs children. He also shares his letter grade on B.C.’s NDP government, after its first year in power. 

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British Columbia’s debate over switching to proportional representation from first-past-the-post is about to get “mucho” interesting.

That is because a darling of the NDP’s biggest 2017 backer, the United Steelworkers union, has gone home to Mexico to take one of the 32 senate seats appointed by party leaders based on their party’s share of popular vote.

Out of Canadian exile and into the Mexican senate.

Napoleon Gomez Urrutia, 74, was on the list of at-large nominees submitted by the July 1 presidential election winner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the left-wing National Regeneration Movement (Morena).

El Universal newspaper reported Aug. 22 that Gomez’s lawyer, Marco Antonio del Toro,  was traveling to Canada on Aug. 23 to bring “Napito” back home. “After many years, Mr. Napoleon will sleep and eat in his country. And of course, he will have immunity,” reported El Universal. Del Toro did not respond to theBreaker.

On Aug. 27, Gomez Tweeted his photograph in Mexico City, holding his identification badge and certificate, under the words “Senador de Mexico.” 

On Aug. 29, El Diario reported that Gomez had arrived to begin his six-year term “to help reconstruct the country and fight against corruption.” His comments were brief,  because he planned a news conference for later in the week.  

Gomez fled to Vancouver in 2006. He led the Los Mineros union in exile after being accused by Mexican authorities of embezzling US$55 million from union members. He has maintained he is innocent. AltoNivel’s report on Gomez’s return noted that Canada has “increased its presence and exploitation in Mexican mines in recent years.” 

Morena nominated Gomez on Feb. 18, the eve of the 12th anniversary of an explosion at a coal mine that killed 65 workers in Coahuila. 

Leo Gerard (left), Napoleon Gomez Urrutia and Len McCluskey (Facebook)

Several Mexican media outlets reported in early May that Gomez renounced his Canadian citizenship, which he gained in 2014. That was also the year that a Mexican court deemed the charges against him unconstitutional and cancelled an extradition application. But efforts continued to compensate miners. 

On May 9, Mexico’s Federal Board of Conciliation and Arbitration (JCFA) ordered Gomez’s Los Mineros to pay US$55 million to the workers affected by the 2005 trust dissolution. The tribunal made a similar ruling at the end of February. 

Oxford-educated Gomez succeeded his father as the union’s leader in 2000, but never worked in a mine. In 2013, the year before he became a Canadian citizen, Gomez published his memoir, Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight against Greed and Corruption in Mexico. The foreword was written by USW boss and B.C. NDP backer Leo Gerard. Gomez blamed mining giant Grupo Mexico and the Mexican government for “industrial homicide.” 

El Universal reported that 89 miners have died in Coahuila since the 2006 disaster. From 2008 to the third quarter of 2016, 311 miners died on the job in Mexico, according to government statistics obtained by the newspaper.

Elections BC’s database shows seven Gomez donations to the NDP, from 2009 to 2017, totalling $2,680.

Last September, Jerry Dias, president of Canada’s Unifor union, spoke at a Mexico City labour convention where he called on the Mexican government to let Gomez return safely. 

British Columbias vote on electoral reform in a mail-in ballot from Oct. 22 to Nov. 30. The Independent Contractors and Businesses Association, a BC Liberal ally that represents non-union construction companies, failed in its bid for the B.C. Supreme Court to pause the vote on constitutional grounds. 

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One of the free-with-admission, 2018 additions to the Pacific National Exhibition Fair is the as-seen-on-TV, Middle Ages extreme sport: jousting. 

Bob Mackin interviewed Knights of Valour captain Shane Adams about Full Contact Jousting, the live version of his History TV hit show Full Metal Jousting. 

“We want the people in the audience to sit there and not think that they could do this,” Adams told theBreaker. “We want the people in the audience to go ‘that’s amazing and I would never do it’!” 

Watch the interview below and check out Full Contact Jousting at the PNE Fair, daily at 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. through Labour Day. 

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A month after a three-alarm fire, Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services has not determined the cause of the blaze that engulfed an empty house for sale at 2250 Southwest Marine Drive. 

All that remained of the house at 2250 S.W. Marine Drive after the July 29 fire. (Bob Mackin)

Spokesman Jonathan Gormick told theBreaker that the July 29 incident in posh southern Kerrisdale is “considered suspicious, and is still under investigation.”

The property was assessed at $4.66 million last year and that is also the asking price for the listing by Sutton Group West Coast Realty’s Naomi Wang. 

“Great opportunity to own this 110 x 243 foot, large estate lot,” said Wang’s advertisement. “Exceptional water and island views. Beautiful Southwest Gulf Islands views overlooking Marine Drive Golf Course. Build your 10, 000 + sf mansion dream house! A lot of potential. Inside the catchment area of top ranking Magee Secondary, Kerrisdale Elementary Schools. Minutes away from UBC, Maple Grove Park, McLeery Golf Course and Richmond.”

Real estate agent Naomi Wang had listed 2250 Southwest Marine Drive for $4.6 million before the July 29 fire. (Bob Mackin)

Richmond is the home of the property’s registered owner Sihan Guo, whose No. 4 Road house is in the name of Yu Kuan Wang.

Reached by phone the day after the fire, agent Wang was oblivious.

“A fire? I didn’t know. That house is not liveable, nobody lives there,” Wang said. 

“I didn’t know that happened. I don’t know. I will let my seller know, they are on vacation, I think.”

The property two doors to the east, at 2230 Southwest Marine Drive, is behind a fence, boarded up and coloured by graffiti. The $6.03 million, wild blackberry framed property is registered to Cheng Yu Li and Jian Ying Zhang who are connected to an $8.2 million property on White Rock’s Marine Drive.

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The hair is greying, grey or gone. Not all the original bandmembers remain road warriors. Subs included able musicians half their age.

The six-pack of acts that hit the pop charts in the 1980s delivered a spunky and economical performance on the Lost 80s Live tour’s Aug. 26 stop at the Pacific National Exhibition Fair’s amphitheatre. Sets were heavy on the hits and B-sides kept to a minimum. The odd cover song thrown-in for good measure. They all lived up to a primary rule of showbiz: leave them wanting more. 

The tour returns to the Pacific Northwest on Sept. 3 at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup, which features Naked Eyes instead of Men Without Hats. It wraps up Sept. 30 in North Carolina. –Bob Mackin

The only touring member of the original A Flock of Seagulls, singer/keyboardist Mike Score, ended Lost 80s Live at the PNE Fair with “I Ran.” (Mackin)

Men Without Hats’ Ivan Doroschuk opened with “Safety Dance.” The leader of the Montreal band now lives in Victoria and his guitarist is DOA collaborator Sho Murray. (Mackin)

 

Wang Chung’s Nick Feldman (left) and Cutting Crew’s Gareth Moulton played the band’s hits “Let’s Go,” “Dance Hall Days,” and Everybody Have Fun Tonight” that originally featured Jack Hues. (Mackin)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Valerie White and John Smith of Portland “I Can’t Wait” hitmaker Nu Shooz kicked-off Lost 80s Live at the PNE Fair. They played in Vancouver for the first time since 1986. (Mackin)

Clive Farrington (left) and Andrew Mann from When In Rome U.K. fulfilled their promise at Lost 80s Live. (Mackin)

Animotion’s Astrid Plane and former Vancouverite Bill Wadhams. (Mackin)

 

 

 

 

 

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For 30 years, Dan Russell informed and entertained British Columbia sports fans on his nightly Sports Talk radio show. The longest-running show of its type on Canadian radio began in October 1984 on CJOR. Along the way, Russell’s show originated from CKWX, CFMI, CKNW, MyCityRadio and CISL. 

With a nod to Vin Scully, Russell signed-on every night with his familiar “pleasant good evening” and gave listeners a sportscast, commentary, live interviews and an open line to call-in and discuss the scores and the stories. This was before sports radio and sports TV exploded, before the Internet, before social media. 

Dan Russell was inducted Aug. 25 by the Vancouver Canadians to the Nat Bailey Stadium Broadcast and Journalism Hall of Fame.

On this edition of theBreaker.news Podcast, host Bob Mackin catches up with Dan to discuss his memories, including the early days of the Vancouver Canadians, the rise and fall of the Vancouver Grizzlies and the Vancouver Canucks’ 1994 quest for the Stanley Cup.

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Who is behind the Vancouverites for Affordable Housing group on Facebook?

Who made the anonymous ads targeting Vision Vancouver and independent candidate for mayor Kennedy Stewart?

The operator has not responded to theBreaker and Facebook refused to disclose the name of whoever is using the variation of mayoral candidate Hector Bremner’s “let’s fix housing” slogan.

Likewise, Bremner did not respond to theBreaker.

Logo for anonymous Vancouver election-related Facebook page

The Facebook group is already drawing the ire of some concerned citizens. 

“Who is behind this group please?” wrote Elvira Lount. “What exactly is your solution for affordable housing? You just don’t start a page without any explanation! And one of your first posts is an anti-union one against Kennedy Stewart. Fake site perhaps? Report to Facebook everyone.”

Added Peter Nicholas Pallett: “Since you don’t identify what candidate/party/special interest group this page is aligned with you’re pretty much chickenshits with zero credibility.”

A Facebook public relations representative, who did not want his name published, referred theBreaker to Elections BC. The agency’s Andrew Watson, however, said there is nothing that can be done for now.

The section of the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act that requires political advertising to contain identification of the advertiser is not in effect until the local elections campaign period runs from Sept. 22 until the Oct. 20 election day. Even then, it will not cover all types of election advertising.

“During the campaign period, third party election advertisers must register with our office and include their name and contact information on all advertising,” said Watson. “Free social media posts and pages are not subject to these rules, though paid ads are.”

The Facebook representative said Facebook is not introducing any B.C.-specific security measures for the Oct. 20 municipal elections. The company is focusing on the Quebec and New Brunswick provincial elections, instead. On Aug. 21, Facebook’s head of public policy for Canada, Kevin Chan, held a conference call with reporters about those provincial elections.

According to his speaking notes, Chan told reporters that Facebook used a report by the Communications Security Establishment as a basis for several new measures, because the report warned that account hacking and misinformation were the biggest potential cyberthreats to the 2019 federal election.

Last fall, Canada was Facebook’s first market for a new function to identify advertising content as such, but there is no requirement yet for the advertiser’s identity to be visible to the reader. Facebook is, however, rolling out identification of those behind political advertising in the U.S., where advertisers must provide the company with government issued photo identification and verify where they live in the U.S.

“We believe people should be able to easily understand why they’re seeing ads, who paid for them, and what other ads that advertiser is running,” said Chan’s notes.

In June, it launched a third-party fact checking by Agence France-Presse. Chan claims there are 20,000 people reviewing reports of bad content and bad actors around the clock, in 50 languages.

“You can never fully ‘solve’ a security problem,” Chan said. “Threat actors will constantly find new ways to cause harm; but our goal is to make it much, much harder for these actors to operate across our platforms.”

The company also released a new “cyber hygiene” guide and training program for Canadian political parties and candidates, and it opened a cyber security hotline for political parties.

theBreaker asked the Facebook representative Aug. 22 for an interview with Chan, about B.C.’s upcoming municipal elections. The representative said that Chan was not available, because of parental leave.

The same CSE report that Facebook cited said municipal elections are “likely to come under increasing threat from nation-states and hacktivists.”

“In particular, we know that certain nation-states have core interests that can be affected by Canadian policies related to natural resources, which are often made at the provincial/territorial level. In addition, Canada has provincial/territorial and municipal leaders that have made policies and statements garnering national and international attention. Hacktivists may begin to view sub-national elections, political parties and politicians, and the media as worthy targets.”

In June 2010, Canadian Security Intelligence Service head Richard Fadden told CBC that municipal politicians in B.C. were under the influence of a foreign government. He did not name the country, but strongly hinted that it was China. 

A CSIS report from May 2018 said China’s “dominance strategy appears relentless and irresistible,” noting its aggressive diplomacy and insistence on asymmetrical trade.

What does Hector Bremner know about the anonymous Facebook page?

Research for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, released Aug. 24, said the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department “seeks to co-opt ethnic Chinese individuals and communities living outside China while a number of other key affiliated organizations guided by China’s broader United Front strategy conduct influence operations targeting foreign actors and states.”

The report cited the work of author Clive Hamilton, a public ethics professor at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales.

United Front organizations groom members to participate in politics in target countries, both as candidates for election and as staff in important positions,” said the report. “The Australian Security Intelligence Organization has reportedly estimated at least 10 recent Australian state and local government political candidates are connected to Chinese intelligence agencies. United Front activities in Australia have involved political donations, influence operations targeting high-ranking politicians, and harassment of members of the Chinese-Australian community.”

A federal committee report in June, probing the involvement of Victoria-based AggregateIQ in the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, recommended that the Government of Canada “urgently act” to subject political activities to privacy laws, as they are already in British Columbia. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner began an investigation last September, after complaints arising from the 2017 provincial election. The scope of that investigation was expanded when whistleblower Christopher Wylie made international headlines in March about Cambridge Analytica and AggregateIQ activities in the U.K. and U.S.

“The scandal has brought to light issues relating to mass data harvesting, the use of data for nefarious purposes, and the threats and challenges these questionable methods can create for democracies around the world,” said the report by the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee. “The evidence that the committee has heard so far gives rise to grave concerns that the Canadian democratic and electoral process is similarly vulnerable to improper acquisition and manipulation of personal data.”

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