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Re: Was Conservative ad scheme legal? "We are not certain beyond all reasonable doubt"
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Gabby in QC
From your story:
“Among the participants were campaigns by Quebec candidates Lawrence Cannon in Pontiac and Maxime Bernier in Beauce. Cannon is now the Transport minister and Bernier is now the Foreign Affairs minister.”
Although not explicitly, this sentence implies that the so-called “in-and-out scheme” was the deciding factor in those two MPs’ winning the election.
One may wonder what might have been for Cannon in Pontiac, who won by a margin of 5%, with 2371 more votes than his closest opponent, but the suggestion falls apart with Bernier, who won his riding with a margin of 47.1%, besting his closest opponent (BQ) by 25918 votes.
(info from http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/2006-QUE.html )
I doubt that voters watch political ads so closely that they cause people to change their votes. Anyway, the general consensus among media analysts at the time was that the Conservative ads were cheesy, not polished, lacking punch, so how influential were those ads? I doubt they could have swayed many votes.
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