TOLD ya it was a bunch of crap !
OTTAWA - Elections Canada has whittled down a campaign of manufactured outrage over voting irregularities to 700 real or imagined complaints - a far cry from the 31,000 contacts it sifted through.

But the agency can't say how many of the mischief complaints it has received - through what a QMI Agency investigation found was a deliberate attempt to muddy the waters - are "fraudulent or improper." Nor would it say how many of the country's 308 ridings had complaints from the May 2 election.

Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand cautioned against reading too much into the numbers until the investigation is completed.

"I advise caution about drawing conclusions based on possibly inaccurate and incomplete information," he said.
His warning fell on deaf ears in the Commons, with the NDP saying there were 700 cases of fraud even though Elections Canada has come to no such conclusions - including about the official Opposition's own participation in alleged misconduct.

The NDP, Liberals and Conservatives have been trading barbs and accusations for the past few weeks in the Commons since an investigation of fraudulent phone calls to misdirect voters to the wrong polls in Guelph, Ont., resurfaced.

All three major parties have been accused of dirty tricks - from nuisance and fraudulent phone calls to stacking voter lists.

NDP MP Pat Martin is the only MP so far being sued in the melodrama playing out on Parliament Hill for suggesting a telecom firm that provides robocalling services was involved in nefarious activities. The suit calls for $5 million in damages.

He was also forced to publicly apologize to another firm for similar accusations