CBC: Harper lied to Parliament; Conservative MPs used U.S.-based telemarketers

[Newsjock]

Source: CBC News

CBC News has learned that more than a dozen Conservative MPs employed U.S.-based political telemarketing firms during the last federal election campaign, contrary to Stephen Harper’s statement in Parliament this week.

... “We’ve done some checking,” the PM said, and “we’ve only found that it was the Liberal Party that did source its phone calls from the United States.”

But documents show 14 Conservative campaigns enlisted the telephone services of an Ohio company called Front Porch Strategies.

During the election, the company made thousands of calls into each of those Canadian ridings from its headquarters in Columbus.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/03/02/pol-weston-election-calls.html

[PDJane]

1. If harper's lips are moving,

He's lying. Of course he used American companies and American tactics. He's a dominionist. A very quiet dominionist, but a dominionist just the same.

[izquierdista]

2. Those hideous foreign call centers!

I'll bet they had to use Americans that were specially trained to end questions with 'eh'! And not give their real names, using Farley and Celine instead.