Editor:
It is clear now that illegal robo-calls took place in key swing ridings all over the country. It takes substantial finances and a large database to specify non-Conservative voters in multiple ridings. So it could well have been a systematic campaign to mislead non-Conservative voters. The question arises: Who paid for this? How high in the Conservative party's sympathizers, or in the party itself, did the decision-making go?
Systematic electoral fraud is a serious crime, and a direct attack on democracy.
We need full public investigations for all the problematic ridings where evidence of this tactic exits; and the number of these ridings has continued to climb in the last week.
We need a public investigation because we cannot trust, at this point, that the Conservative government was elected fairly; it's possible that the will of the people was highjacked. If this is true, then it's understandable that they will deny and avoid a public commission. This possibility makes it essential that we have such an investigation, not only for the public, but for the sake of the government itself; if they have nothing to hide, they will emerge the better for it.
If we do not have such a commission, everything the Conservatives legislate from now on will be tarnished with the possibility that they should not be the government at all and have achieved their position through false means.
Steven Rowat
Roberts Creek
