Party of One
“Where did everything go wrong for a government that came into town on accountability? When the Conservatives were elected, many in the base wanted massive changes to government, but the raison d’être was “incrementalism.” I can’t tell you the amount of times I had to use that line in unofficial communications. I believed it too! I guess corruption happens the same way. It doesn’t just swoop in and take over everything. It starts as a little action, a little boundary pushing, a little rule-break...ing. And before you know it, your incrementalism on breaking the rules has led to entire elections being tainted.
—Michael Sona, June 25, 2013, to the author Like Watergate, Canada’s worst election scandal went almost unnoticed at the time. On May 2, 2011, election day, at 10 a.m., Guelph resident Susan Campbell received an automated message telling her that her polling station had been moved. Her caller ID told her that the sixty-three-second message was coming from telephone number 450-760-7746.MoreLess
—Michael Sona, June 25, 2013, to the author Like Watergate, Canada’s worst election scandal went almost unnoticed at the time. On May 2, 2011, election day, at 10 a.m., Guelph resident Susan Campbell received an automated message telling her that her polling station had been moved. Her caller ID told her that the sixty-three-second message was coming from telephone number 450-760-7746.MoreLess
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