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consbegone.bsky.social • 7 hours ago

How about some criminal charges!!?!

Reposted from Paul Doroshenko / Prairie Paul

Its almost my lifelong quest to stop governments from using government money to advertise their party. I sued BC and lost. It’s corrosive to public trust and the integrity of elections.
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consbegone.bsky.social•7 hours ago

And all those big Con cheques 😡😡

consbegone.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Harper: fined for breaking electoral rules, gagging civil servants, subverting parliamentary committees, gagging scientists, harassing supreme court, gagging diplomats, lying to the public, concealing evidence of potential crime, spying on opponents, bullying and smearing, in contempt of parliament.

consbegone.bsky.social•7 hours ago

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/stephen-harper-master-manipulator

consbegone.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Ford has refused to lay out how much money taxpayers have spend on the commercials only offering that the budget is in the tens of millions and, at a recent campaign event, saying the information could be compelled using freedom of information laws.

So. Much. Secrecy.
That’s OUR Tax Dollars 😡

consbegone.bsky.social•7 hours ago

In December, Auditor General revealed the province spent $103.5 million on advertising previous year, including commercials highlighting Ontario’s economy.

Much of the language used in the publicly funded ads mirrored talking points used by Ford and Con Party leading to AG flagging them as partisan

consbegone.bsky.social•7 hours ago

More than two dozen television commercials, funded by Ontario taxpayers, were paused during the election period after the province’s auditor general deemed the advertising was “designed to promote the governing party” rather than the province itself.

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