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Unpublished Opinions
I am the National Revenue & Ecological Fiscal Reform critic on the shadow cabinet of the Green Party of Canada, which I also co-chair. I am also a certified member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps.
Fair Elections Act makes things worse
Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels famously criticized English leaders for telling big lies and sticking to them, describing the “Big Lie” tactic used by the Nazis themselves and many other governments of all political stripes before and since. It’s now also popular with many pundits and columnists, as I’ve pointed out in previous columns.
The bill kills the ability of neutral Elections Canada to educate voters or encourage them to vote, particularly groups that vote the least. The current Conservative government even has the gall to blame Elections Canada for lowering turnout, when the real and documented reasons are factors like the tighter voter ID restrictions and unprecedented increase in attack ads we’ve seen under this government. Of course, this bill also removes Elections Canada’s ability to do any further embarrassing research into why people don’t vote. In effect, voter encouragement is now left up to political parties, magnifying the unfair advantage that better-funded parties and their backers already have.
Erich Jacoby-Hawkins is a director of Living Green and the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.
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