{"id":19,"date":"2015-07-25T22:15:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T22:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2015-07-26T00:40:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T00:40:03","slug":"the-fair-elections-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Fair Elections Act&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, Parliament voted into law the so-called &#8220;Fair Elections Act&#8221; that, in the eyes of its critics, was anything but.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cambridgeadvocate.com\/archives\/the-harper-conservatives-are-shutting-down-democratic-debate-on-their-so-calledfair-elections-act\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fair-elections-act-med.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fair-elections-act-med.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fair-elections-act-med-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My most significant concern was about the weakening of the investigative authority of the Commissioner of Canada Elections, especially in light of the Conservative Party&#8217;s campaign shenanigans during the last election campaign.<\/p>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-19\" class=\"post-ratings\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/cats\/rating_on.gif\" alt=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" title=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/cats\/rating_on.gif\" alt=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" title=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/cats\/rating_on.gif\" alt=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" title=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/cats\/rating_on.gif\" alt=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" title=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/cats\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" title=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/cats\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" title=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/cats\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" title=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/cats\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" title=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/cats\/rating_off.gif\" alt=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" title=\"2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 9\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/> (average: <strong>4.00<\/strong> cats out of 9<\/em>)<br \/><em>You need to be a registered member to rate this post.<\/em><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-19-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, Parliament voted into law the so-called &#8220;Fair Elections Act&#8221; that, in the eyes of its critics, was anything but. My most significant concern was about the weakening of the investigative authority of the Commissioner of Canada Elections, especially in light of the Conservative Party&#8217;s campaign shenanigans during the last election campaign. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cats.vttoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}