An open letter to South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale MP Russ Hiebert.
After months of investigations, it was confirmed by Elections Canada last week that a campaign to suppress voters in the May 2011 election was linked to a computer used by a Conservative party staffer, and that Elections Canada has received complaints from 200 ridings of misleading phone calls in the lead-up to the election.
Many brave people gave their lives to ensure our right to vote, while people all over the world continue to fight for theirs. As an embarrassed Canadian, I submit that the only honourable course of action is to call byelections in every targeted riding.
If not, each person who gave their life fighting for our democratic rights will have died in vain.
Please do the honourable thing for our country and publicly ask the prime minister to dissolve Parliament or, at minimum, run byelections in all ridings targeted by the cheaters in the last election.
If not, your silence makes you complicit.
I suggest all Conservative party members refrain from singing “We stand on guard for thee” this coming July 1.
R. Benoit, Surrey
