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战事汇报 (一 联邦保守党党领选举战况更新）
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当学校不再庆祝母亲节的时候，Brad Trost 在议会上祝各位母亲节日快乐！
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向义工们致敬！
“小唐姐妹@糖tang London 今天带领女儿和朋友从London 赶到Toronto做义工监票，之后返回家还要打理自家的生意...明天再赶回Toronto继续监票……为了这个国家的未来，为了持守我们的价值观念，她真是付出大量心血，真是让人感动，在此向@糖tang London 献上一份敬意！”
“「刚接到电话，是204区的，告诉说是Brad的义工，问我有没有寄出选票。听着义工电话里有小Baby的哭声、赶紧告诉对方说：早寄了、别担心！……向支持Brad的所有义工致敬！」”
“小唐姐妹@糖tang London 今天带领女儿和朋友从London 赶到Toronto做义工监票，之后返回家还要打理自家的生意...明天再赶回Toronto继续监票……为了这个国家的未来，为了持守我们的价值观念，她真是付出大量心血，真是让人感动，在此向@糖tang London 献上一份敬意！”
“「刚接到电话，是204区的，告诉说是Brad的义工，问我有没有寄出选票。听着义工电话里有小Baby的哭声、赶紧告诉对方说：早寄了、别担心！……向支持Brad的所有义工致敬！」”
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转:今天检票3小时。 嗨。 合格率50%不到。加拿大人素质太厉害。 华人票合格率高。
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转: 转:请大家为❛支持BRAD,为公义监票❜群祷告。 你若有感动诚恳地邀请你加入，站好最后一班岗[Fight][Fight][Fight][Fist][Fist][Fist]我周四周五都去。华，周五也去，都是从9点一5点，请大家为我们祷告，地点在Vaughan旺，走高速。有弟兄姊妹从伦敦，burlington也赶到旺市做义工，请为所有参与的义工路途的平安多祷告，有人做到晚上10点&12点。另无论那个族裔参与做义工的，都能行公义，因为神掌权，不要按私欲喜好验票，多谢大家。
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魔影重重，原来干涉选举不是俄国的专利
Original 2017-05-25 小八 北美华人之声
最近所谓俄国干涉美国大选的事情闹的沸沸扬扬，尚无定论。不过，你可知道，早在2015年加拿大大选的时候，来自美国的海外资金就已经成功的绕过加拿大选举法，成功的改变了至少25个选区的投票结果，为保守党的黯然离场添砖加瓦，功不可没。
（前保守党议员，Joan Crockatt ）
现在被挖出来的金主，是美国的左翼基金Tides Foundation，大本营在加州和纽约。当年他们的主要议题是反对美国进口加拿大的“脏油”，并在2015年至少赞助了150万美元来改变大选结果。虽然加拿大选举法严格规定，只有加拿大公民或者永久居民进行政治捐款的每年上限总额是1550元，而公司法人和工会是完全被禁止捐款的。
道高一尺，魔高一丈。现成的规定从来拦不住有心人。所以它们想到了第三方利益团体。虽然每个第三方团体在大选中总共花费和每个选区的花费依然有限制，比如每个团体每个选区花费不超过8788元，而且加拿大的选举法明确规定了第三方不可以化整为零规避花费上限。。。但是，你一个外人在法治社会加拿大说这样的行为是规避法律，得有证据，不然有无数人跳出来说你造谣，说，人家只是在偶然的时间获得了偶然的捐助，然后偶然的选择了和其他偶然接受同一基金捐助的组织的相同选区投放广告。。。。其实连偶然都不用，因为大家理念相同，携手共进也没有啥不可以解释的。这150万美元就这么化整为零用蚂蚁搬家的手法进入了加拿大2015年的联邦大选。而且如果捐助是在大选前六个月发生的，受捐者没有任何使用限制。现在披露出来的数据显示，2011年大选中，登记注册的第三方团体只有55个，而到了2015年，暴涨到了114个。这114个第三方组织在明面上，花了600万加元。
你要说这人都不傻，干了坏事为啥会这么快曝光？因为很多像Leadnow这样的组织，说是第三方利益团体，但主要靠“赞助”生存，不会在一棵树上吊死。所以除了口口相传的口碑吸引金主外，人家还有发facebook和建设自己的网站汇报自己的活动招徕潜在客户。
（Leadnow 活动现场）
比如在Leadnow的网站中，他们就自己承认，2015年大选一共选了29个目标社区，并且在其中25个中都取得了胜利。然后还专门出了个DefeatHarper报告，直接自己说“We selected target ridings with field teams run by paid Leadnow organizers...."。人家在2015的成果有：
Calgary Centre选区，前保守党议员Joan Crockatt和对手的差距只有750票；
曼尼托巴的Elmwood - Transcona 选区，前保守党议员Lawrence Toet和对手的差距只有61票；
前财政部长Joe Oliver和对手的差距也只有3，490票。
。。。。。。。。
更为可怕的是，由于法律壁垒，现在还不知道Tides Foundation的赞助人到底是谁，这笔资金到底从哪里流出的，阿拉伯国家，俄罗斯，中国。。。。都有可能。当然，我们可以按照宫斗定律推测，受益最大的是自由党，而且反加拿大原油其实就是帮助其他石油输出国消弱竞争对手。中国是石油输入过，自然希望油价越低越好，俄罗斯和美国左派一贯不和。。。剩下的。。。。
不过没有证据，不过随手一猜。真相，鬼知道。
这，对加拿大的民主体制并不是小事。因为海外政治献金的入侵，扭曲了民意，变相提高了普通公民参政议政的门槛，让他们本来就微弱的声音更加难于被社会倾听。也不要指望来自国会的调查可以给出真相，最大受益者自由党在国会占绝对优势，什么不利的事情都一个雷声大雨点小的压下去。
2015年遭殃的是保守党，可是这不是一个政党的问题，而是对加拿大法治民主的恶意挑衅。如果你想做什么，走出家门，参与选举，宣传真相，支持你心仪的候选人。用自己的行动，在2019年联邦大选中，抵御所谓付费助选人员或组织对舆论的歪曲和滥用，还大选一个安宁和亲近。
Original 2017-05-25 小八 北美华人之声
最近所谓俄国干涉美国大选的事情闹的沸沸扬扬，尚无定论。不过，你可知道，早在2015年加拿大大选的时候，来自美国的海外资金就已经成功的绕过加拿大选举法，成功的改变了至少25个选区的投票结果，为保守党的黯然离场添砖加瓦，功不可没。
（前保守党议员，Joan Crockatt ）
现在被挖出来的金主，是美国的左翼基金Tides Foundation，大本营在加州和纽约。当年他们的主要议题是反对美国进口加拿大的“脏油”，并在2015年至少赞助了150万美元来改变大选结果。虽然加拿大选举法严格规定，只有加拿大公民或者永久居民进行政治捐款的每年上限总额是1550元，而公司法人和工会是完全被禁止捐款的。
道高一尺，魔高一丈。现成的规定从来拦不住有心人。所以它们想到了第三方利益团体。虽然每个第三方团体在大选中总共花费和每个选区的花费依然有限制，比如每个团体每个选区花费不超过8788元，而且加拿大的选举法明确规定了第三方不可以化整为零规避花费上限。。。但是，你一个外人在法治社会加拿大说这样的行为是规避法律，得有证据，不然有无数人跳出来说你造谣，说，人家只是在偶然的时间获得了偶然的捐助，然后偶然的选择了和其他偶然接受同一基金捐助的组织的相同选区投放广告。。。。其实连偶然都不用，因为大家理念相同，携手共进也没有啥不可以解释的。这150万美元就这么化整为零用蚂蚁搬家的手法进入了加拿大2015年的联邦大选。而且如果捐助是在大选前六个月发生的，受捐者没有任何使用限制。现在披露出来的数据显示，2011年大选中，登记注册的第三方团体只有55个，而到了2015年，暴涨到了114个。这114个第三方组织在明面上，花了600万加元。
你要说这人都不傻，干了坏事为啥会这么快曝光？因为很多像Leadnow这样的组织，说是第三方利益团体，但主要靠“赞助”生存，不会在一棵树上吊死。所以除了口口相传的口碑吸引金主外，人家还有发facebook和建设自己的网站汇报自己的活动招徕潜在客户。
（Leadnow 活动现场）
比如在Leadnow的网站中，他们就自己承认，2015年大选一共选了29个目标社区，并且在其中25个中都取得了胜利。然后还专门出了个DefeatHarper报告，直接自己说“We selected target ridings with field teams run by paid Leadnow organizers...."。人家在2015的成果有：
Calgary Centre选区，前保守党议员Joan Crockatt和对手的差距只有750票；
曼尼托巴的Elmwood - Transcona 选区，前保守党议员Lawrence Toet和对手的差距只有61票；
前财政部长Joe Oliver和对手的差距也只有3，490票。
。。。。。。。。
更为可怕的是，由于法律壁垒，现在还不知道Tides Foundation的赞助人到底是谁，这笔资金到底从哪里流出的，阿拉伯国家，俄罗斯，中国。。。。都有可能。当然，我们可以按照宫斗定律推测，受益最大的是自由党，而且反加拿大原油其实就是帮助其他石油输出国消弱竞争对手。中国是石油输入过，自然希望油价越低越好，俄罗斯和美国左派一贯不和。。。剩下的。。。。
不过没有证据，不过随手一猜。真相，鬼知道。
这，对加拿大的民主体制并不是小事。因为海外政治献金的入侵，扭曲了民意，变相提高了普通公民参政议政的门槛，让他们本来就微弱的声音更加难于被社会倾听。也不要指望来自国会的调查可以给出真相，最大受益者自由党在国会占绝对优势，什么不利的事情都一个雷声大雨点小的压下去。
2015年遭殃的是保守党，可是这不是一个政党的问题，而是对加拿大法治民主的恶意挑衅。如果你想做什么，走出家门，参与选举，宣传真相，支持你心仪的候选人。用自己的行动，在2019年联邦大选中，抵御所谓付费助选人员或组织对舆论的歪曲和滥用，还大选一个安宁和亲近。
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Foreign money funnelled towards Canadian political advocacy groups affected the outcome of the 2015 federal election, according to a document filed last week with Elections Canada and obtained exclusively by the Herald.
The 36-page report entitled: Elections Canada Complaint Regarding Foreign Influence in the 2015 Canadian Election, alleges third parties worked with each other, which may have bypassed election spending limits — all of which appears to be in contravention of the Canada Elections Act.
The Canada Elections Act states that “a third party shall not circumvent, or attempt to circumvent, a limit set out . . . in any manner, including by splitting itself into two or more third parties for the purpose of circumventing the limit or acting in collusion with another third party so that their combined election advertising expenses exceed the limit.”
“Electoral outcomes were influenced,” alleges the report.
The Canada Elections Act also states: “No person who does not reside in Canada shall, during an election period, in any way induce electors to vote or refrain from voting or vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate” unless the person is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident.
“Yet the outcome of the 2015 election was skewed by money from wealthy foreigners,” alleges the complaint, submitted by Canada Decides, a registered society with three listed directors — including Joan Crockatt, a former Conservative MP for Calgary Centre, who lost her seat to Liberal Kent Hehr, now the MP for the once long-held Tory riding and the Minister of Veterans Affairs. The other two directors include Chad Hallman, a University of Toronto political science student.
The number of third parties registered during the 2015 general election more than doubled, to 114 compared with 55, in the 2011 election.
In total, the 114 third parties spent $6 million and many of those third parties were funded by California-and New York-based Tides Foundation — which is known in Canada for holding numerous anti-Canadian oil campaigns.
In 2015, Tides Foundation donated $1.5 million of U.S. money to Canadian third parties in the election year, according to the report.
Crockatt’s seat was one of the 29 targeted by an organization called Leadnow through its “largest ever campaign” called Vote Together. The complaint by Canada Decides alleges that foreign money “spawned” Leadnow and helped fund an elaborate campaign to oust the ruling Conservative Party.
Mount Royal University political science professor Duane Bratt says Canadians should be concerned about any kind of foreign involvement in our elections.
“The whole concept and idea of foreign influence in an election is an important issue and is something that Canadians should not tolerate,” Bratt said Monday.
Tides Foundation and Leadnow representatives did not return repeated phone calls and emails from the Herald to respond to concerns raised by Canada Decides.
A December 2015 Leadnow report, Defeating Harper, discusses how effective its campaign was in the 2015 general election. “The Conservatives were defeated in 25 out of 29 ridings, and . . . in the seats the Conservatives lost, our recommended candidate was the winner 96 per cent of the time.”
Leadnow’s Defeat Harper report also states: “We selected target ridings with field teams run by paid Leadnow organizers . . .”
Crockatt lost her Calgary Centre seat by 750 votes. Conservative MP Lawrence Toet lost his Manitoba seat of Elmwood-Transcona to the NDP’s Daniel Blaikie by just 61 votes. Former Conservative Finance Minister Joe Oliver lost his seat to Liberal Marco Mendicino with a margin of 3,490 votes. Only six per cent of voters in that riding voted for the NDP candidate, who complained of Leadnow’s tactics on Twitter.
Leadnow staff members flew around the country on numerous occasions, as Facebook postings and photographs show, to distribute flyers and put up signs. Also, 57 local polls were commissioned across 37 ridings urging citizens to strategically vote for the most winnable, left-of-centre candidate in order to defeat the Conservative candidate.
There is an $8,788 spending limit per riding for the election. NDP candidates and even CUPE complained about Leadnow’s activities being anti-democratic.
“This is not a partisan issue or a case of sour grapes by Conservatives,” insists Hallman, 20.
“This is a Canadian issue. This affects all Canadians whether you’re an NDP, Green, Liberal or Conservative. You should be very concerned about foreign money being spent in Canada during an election campaign.”
Crockatt, who prior to becoming a Member of Parliament was a journalist, including a stint as an editor with the Calgary Herald, said researchers from Fredericton to Nanaimo worked for 18 months gathering information on this issue.
“Foreign money meddled in a big way in our election and that’s not right,” she added. “Americans are rightly concerned about Russia hacking into U.S. government emails. Well, this appears to be much worse — foreign money, in many cases by very wealthy people — was donated and arguably changed the outcome of our Canadian election. It needs to be taken seriously and investigated.”
In the 2015 annual report of the California-based Online Progressive Engagement Network (OPEN) where Ben Brandzel, one of Leadnow’s founders, currently works, he said: “We ended the year with . . . a Canadian campaign that moved the needle during the national election, contributing greatly to the ousting of the conservative Harper government.”
Just how greatly these foreign organizations and money contributed to interfering in the Canadian election needs to be investigated by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, states Canada Decides.
“The threat to Canadian election sovereignty is real and must be eliminated by the Commissioner as quickly and decisively as possible,” adds the report.
It appears as though Yves Cote, commissioner of Elections Canada, is considering doing just that.
Cote admitted during an April 13 Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee that an investigation needs to be launched following questions by Conservative Senators Linda Frum and Bob Runciman.
“Issues of significance have been raised . . .” said Cote, during the senate committee hearing, “which in my view deserves Parliament taking the time to looking at the situation, trying to understand what has happened, what is likely to happen and then taking measures . . . to make sure there is compliance.”
Cote added that “the Supreme Court of Canada said the objective of maintaining a level playing field is, for them, a very important objective.”
Senator Frum is planning to introduce a private member’s bill updating the Canada Elections Act to prohibit third parties from accepting foreign funding for domestic political activity.
Canadians can only donate $1,550 to political parties and candidates. Union and corporate donations have been banned completely, and yet in the Senate hearing, Commissioner Cote said that as long as foreign money is donated to a third party six months prior to the election writ being dropped, the amount that can be donated is endless.
Frum made the following observation during the April 13 senate hearing: “I could take a cheque for $10 million from Saudi Arabia, from Iran, from China — I could take any amount of money from a foreign contributor so long as I, a Canadian citizen, am receiving it?”
Cote said as long as funds are received six months before an election “the third party is free to use that money.”
“Most Canadians would be very alarmed by this,” added Frum. “This happened in the 2015 election.”
The 36-page report entitled: Elections Canada Complaint Regarding Foreign Influence in the 2015 Canadian Election, alleges third parties worked with each other, which may have bypassed election spending limits — all of which appears to be in contravention of the Canada Elections Act.
The Canada Elections Act states that “a third party shall not circumvent, or attempt to circumvent, a limit set out . . . in any manner, including by splitting itself into two or more third parties for the purpose of circumventing the limit or acting in collusion with another third party so that their combined election advertising expenses exceed the limit.”
“Electoral outcomes were influenced,” alleges the report.
The Canada Elections Act also states: “No person who does not reside in Canada shall, during an election period, in any way induce electors to vote or refrain from voting or vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate” unless the person is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident.
“Yet the outcome of the 2015 election was skewed by money from wealthy foreigners,” alleges the complaint, submitted by Canada Decides, a registered society with three listed directors — including Joan Crockatt, a former Conservative MP for Calgary Centre, who lost her seat to Liberal Kent Hehr, now the MP for the once long-held Tory riding and the Minister of Veterans Affairs. The other two directors include Chad Hallman, a University of Toronto political science student.
The number of third parties registered during the 2015 general election more than doubled, to 114 compared with 55, in the 2011 election.
In total, the 114 third parties spent $6 million and many of those third parties were funded by California-and New York-based Tides Foundation — which is known in Canada for holding numerous anti-Canadian oil campaigns.
In 2015, Tides Foundation donated $1.5 million of U.S. money to Canadian third parties in the election year, according to the report.
Crockatt’s seat was one of the 29 targeted by an organization called Leadnow through its “largest ever campaign” called Vote Together. The complaint by Canada Decides alleges that foreign money “spawned” Leadnow and helped fund an elaborate campaign to oust the ruling Conservative Party.
Mount Royal University political science professor Duane Bratt says Canadians should be concerned about any kind of foreign involvement in our elections.
“The whole concept and idea of foreign influence in an election is an important issue and is something that Canadians should not tolerate,” Bratt said Monday.
Tides Foundation and Leadnow representatives did not return repeated phone calls and emails from the Herald to respond to concerns raised by Canada Decides.
A December 2015 Leadnow report, Defeating Harper, discusses how effective its campaign was in the 2015 general election. “The Conservatives were defeated in 25 out of 29 ridings, and . . . in the seats the Conservatives lost, our recommended candidate was the winner 96 per cent of the time.”
Leadnow’s Defeat Harper report also states: “We selected target ridings with field teams run by paid Leadnow organizers . . .”
Crockatt lost her Calgary Centre seat by 750 votes. Conservative MP Lawrence Toet lost his Manitoba seat of Elmwood-Transcona to the NDP’s Daniel Blaikie by just 61 votes. Former Conservative Finance Minister Joe Oliver lost his seat to Liberal Marco Mendicino with a margin of 3,490 votes. Only six per cent of voters in that riding voted for the NDP candidate, who complained of Leadnow’s tactics on Twitter.
Leadnow staff members flew around the country on numerous occasions, as Facebook postings and photographs show, to distribute flyers and put up signs. Also, 57 local polls were commissioned across 37 ridings urging citizens to strategically vote for the most winnable, left-of-centre candidate in order to defeat the Conservative candidate.
There is an $8,788 spending limit per riding for the election. NDP candidates and even CUPE complained about Leadnow’s activities being anti-democratic.
“This is not a partisan issue or a case of sour grapes by Conservatives,” insists Hallman, 20.
“This is a Canadian issue. This affects all Canadians whether you’re an NDP, Green, Liberal or Conservative. You should be very concerned about foreign money being spent in Canada during an election campaign.”
Crockatt, who prior to becoming a Member of Parliament was a journalist, including a stint as an editor with the Calgary Herald, said researchers from Fredericton to Nanaimo worked for 18 months gathering information on this issue.
“Foreign money meddled in a big way in our election and that’s not right,” she added. “Americans are rightly concerned about Russia hacking into U.S. government emails. Well, this appears to be much worse — foreign money, in many cases by very wealthy people — was donated and arguably changed the outcome of our Canadian election. It needs to be taken seriously and investigated.”
In the 2015 annual report of the California-based Online Progressive Engagement Network (OPEN) where Ben Brandzel, one of Leadnow’s founders, currently works, he said: “We ended the year with . . . a Canadian campaign that moved the needle during the national election, contributing greatly to the ousting of the conservative Harper government.”
Just how greatly these foreign organizations and money contributed to interfering in the Canadian election needs to be investigated by the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, states Canada Decides.
“The threat to Canadian election sovereignty is real and must be eliminated by the Commissioner as quickly and decisively as possible,” adds the report.
It appears as though Yves Cote, commissioner of Elections Canada, is considering doing just that.
Cote admitted during an April 13 Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee that an investigation needs to be launched following questions by Conservative Senators Linda Frum and Bob Runciman.
“Issues of significance have been raised . . .” said Cote, during the senate committee hearing, “which in my view deserves Parliament taking the time to looking at the situation, trying to understand what has happened, what is likely to happen and then taking measures . . . to make sure there is compliance.”
Cote added that “the Supreme Court of Canada said the objective of maintaining a level playing field is, for them, a very important objective.”
Senator Frum is planning to introduce a private member’s bill updating the Canada Elections Act to prohibit third parties from accepting foreign funding for domestic political activity.
Canadians can only donate $1,550 to political parties and candidates. Union and corporate donations have been banned completely, and yet in the Senate hearing, Commissioner Cote said that as long as foreign money is donated to a third party six months prior to the election writ being dropped, the amount that can be donated is endless.
Frum made the following observation during the April 13 senate hearing: “I could take a cheque for $10 million from Saudi Arabia, from Iran, from China — I could take any amount of money from a foreign contributor so long as I, a Canadian citizen, am receiving it?”
Cote said as long as funds are received six months before an election “the third party is free to use that money.”
“Most Canadians would be very alarmed by this,” added Frum. “This happened in the 2015 election.”
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