Foreign Minister and busybody at large John Baird was in Myanmar this week for a visit with Suu Kyi. Baird reassured Suu Kyi that Canada had her back and would be on the lookout for vote fraud in the next Myanmar election.
Meanwhile, back in the Great White North, the "robocall" scandal is gathering momentum. Seems that last election day all sorts of nefarious goings-on were on going, ostensibly for the benefit of Baird's Conservative Party.
Automated calls ruled the phone lines that day, advising voters to head for non-existant polling stations. Oddly enough, known Conservative sympathizers didn't get any of these calls. Even oddlier, known Liberal and NDP sympathizers did.
The goal was obviously to keep Liberal and NDP voters away from polling stations on voting day. If this story came out in Russia we'd be all over that evil Putin stealing the election.
Here in Canada, Harper stands up in the House of Commons and claims it was the opposition that organized these dirty tricks, just so they could accuse the Conservatives of election fraud after the Conservatives won the election.
As unlikely as that seems, nothing in this scandal so far has prevented Harper's minions from roaming the globe and delivering their self-righteous message of democratic virtue.
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