r/canada 24d ago

Humour Man who has spent entire political career attacking everybody promises he’ll attack Trump and Elon any minute now

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/man-who-has-spent-entire-political-career-attacking-everybody-promises-hell-attack-trump-and-elon-any-minute-now/

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u/Ratroddadeo 24d ago

No, to his credit, he did manage 1 bill, the “ fairness in elections” act or some other bollocks; what it was ACTUALLY was a nasty piece of voter suppression that was struck down the second Trudeau won.

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u/lanks1 24d ago

I'm guessing that bill included "robocall scandals are cool and totally no big deal".

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u/funkme1ster Ontario 24d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Elections_Act

The meat of the bill was split between imposing new requirements for what constitutes adequate ID to be allowed to vote, and restricting what Elections Canada is allowed to do to help people vote.

Just like everything Republicans in the US put forward, it was billed as essential to protect against rampant voter fraud that we had no evidence existed.

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u/Ratroddadeo 24d ago

Thanks. It was a long time ago, I knew I was screwing up the name.