NDP, Liberals Demand Harper’s Right-Hand Man Must Step Down Amid Allegations of Misconduct!
OTTAWA — The chief defender of the Conservative Party’s conduct in the robo-calls election fraud scandal – the louth mouth Dean Del Mastro – is himself under investigation by Elections Canada for allegedly big time overspending in the 2008 election.
Del Mastro is under investigation by Elections Canada for allegedly exceeding campaign spending limits and to make matters worse – a personal cheque of thousands of dollars from Del Mastro to a polling company surfaced, making loud mouth Del Mastro go quiet while making excuses.
Liberal Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics critic Scott Andrews and the NDP saidDel Mastro should step down in yet another scandal to rock the Harper Conservatives
“The Prime Minister’s right-hand man and chief spokesperson on election fraud, Dean Del Mastro, must step down from his Parliamentary Secretary role and his position as government mouthpiece on the House of Commons Ethics Committee while Elections Canada investigates serious allegations of election overspending against him,” Andrews said.
“Mr. Del Mastro’s role has been to breathlessly defend the government against serious electoral fraud allegations for months. Now we learn that he himself may have committed an election offense punishable by fines and up to five years in prison. He cannot continue to answer for this government when he has these allegations of possible misconduct looming over his head.”
Andrews said Del Mastro and other examples of rotten fruit around the Prime Minister seriously bring Harper’s judgement into question.
“Whether it is Bev Oda’s lavish taste, Peter MacKay’s abuse of military equipment, Christian Paradis’ ethics violations or Mr. Del Mastro’s alleged election overspending, what does a Conservative member have to do to be reprimanded by this Prime Minister?,” he said
Del Mastro is reportedly under investigation by Elections Canada for allegedly exceeding his campaign spending limit in the 2008 election by $17,000.
Documents outlining Election Canada’s case were obtained by Postmedia reporters this week.
