Kerry-Lynne Findlay on elections committee debacle and BC Conservative race
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Summary
In this episode, former federal election candidate and current BCConservator Party Leader Candice Moser talks about the recent media reports that Elections Canada has launched an investigation into her and her comments on the matter, and why she doesn't think it's true.
Transcript
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Um, you've been in a little bit of hot water here. There was, uh, media reports that there
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was an investigation, uh, launched by the commissioner of, of, uh, Canada's elections.
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I just want to get your perspective on that. And for the audience who might not be familiar,
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like, you know, can you just explain to our audience, uh, what, you know, what do you make
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of those media reports and, uh, that you were under investigation and just days before the,
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voting began? Well, first of all, I have absolutely no notice of being under any
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investigation. I've never been contacted by Elections Canada or anyone on behalf of the
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commissioner. Neither has my official agent from that federal run, which was about 13 months ago
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now and it's very curious the timing that this would come up just as we are literally imminently
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about to vote in the bc conserve party leadership race the voting started this morning at 8 a.m
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and goes through to 8 a.m on may 29th when you say what do i make of it well you know when you're
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totally taken by surprise i was actually out touring um around the interior and the okanagan
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here when i heard the news and the news for me was an inquiry by a reporter who said they had
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a document they were looking at and wanted my comment i i had no idea what they were talking
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about and i i still don't officially but it certainly led to a lot of media attention and
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speculation which is difficult to respond to when you're being taken by surprise i do not believe
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there is an elections canada investigation my understanding is there may be some preliminary
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inquiries related to an unsubstantiated complaint but it is also my understanding that if there is
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actually an investigation then it is incumbent on elections canada to let the subject of that
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investigation know about it and certainly any contact i've had with elections canada to date
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which is well over a year ago was where they contacted both me and my official agent at the
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same time and neither of us have heard anything from them like i said for over a year so this has
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taken me by surprise i think it's very unfortunate that it went into the public domain and that leoc
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took it seriously enough that they started to look into it