ARE CANADIAN ELECTIONS RIGGED?

That depends on what you mean by "rigged"...

Hey Folks,

It’s election time in Canada. Hooray.

Although I generally regard elections as little more than exercises in mass deception, I still care about the result of this election.

I left Canada in 2021 for political reasons, but I still care a great deal about my homeland, which has gone downhill fast over the course of the past ten years, which happens to be the length of time that Trudeau’s Liberal Party has been in power.

Everyone with a half a brain knows by now that the Liberals are ridiculously corrupt, but according to the latest polls, they may still win this election.

How did they pull this off? By replacing the guy they put in front of the cameras. The oldest trick in the book, but apparently people still fall for it.

Back in January of this year, the widely-reviled Justin Trudeau announced that he was stepping down, and the Liberal Party called a snap leadership race, in which former Goldman Sachs banker Mark Carney was put in charge.

I don’t really think I have much to say about Carney that hasn’t already been said. I think James Corbett hit the nail on the head when he said:

Mark is nothing more than a more savvy, more competent, more informed, more ideologically-devoted Justin Trudeau. Trudeau was nothing more than a drama teacher who took the part of prime minister and played it well for his puppet string pullers. But amongst the people pulling his strings was Mark Carney.

In other words, Carney will be worse. Make no mistake - Trudeau was no Machiavellian political shark. He was none-too-bright rich kid who was groomed to take power from a young age. From day one, he was out of his element in Ottawa’s halls of power.

Now, I’ll be honest. I hate the Liberals with a burning passion and I’d love to see them out of power. Truth be told, there is a part of me that would like to see every Liberal powerbroker tortured to death live on television. I know that’s not very Christian of me, but I’m only human.

I really don’t see how the Conservatives could be any worse, so I’ll freely admit that I’m hoping that they win. There is no question in mind that they are the lesser of the evils.

That said, I am an anarchist and my critique of electoral democracy has not changed. I’m not going to vote and I’m not encouraging my readers to vote.

But will I be upset if the Liberals win? Absolutely. I’ll be very upset. It will mean that Canadians are completely politically illiterate and/or brainwashed.

Or will it?

ARE CANADIAN ELECTIONS RIGGED?

Personally, I believe that U.S. elections are quite literally rigged. Back in 2000, the U.S. brought in voting machines, meaning that there is quite literally no paper trail.

Years ago, I saw a documentary called Hacking Democracy, which came out in 2006. The movie convinced me that the voting machines were hackable, meaning that every U.S. election since 2000 has probably been rigged.

In that movie, they basically prove that voting machines are hackable by setting up a mock election with a real elections officer. A real hacker then hacks real voting machines and is able to change the result of the election.

It’s very convincing. Check out this video if you don’t believe me.

In Canada, however, voting machines are not used. Canadians vote the old-fashioned way - by putting ballots in ballot boxes. That means there is a paper trail. I have not seen any convincing evidence to suggest that Elections Canada miscounts votes. I wouldn’t put it past the Canadian state to rig elections, but I haven’t seen any proof.

Furthermore, it is a matter of public record that CCP has made major efforts to influence Canadian elections as recently as 2021. These efforts including propaganda campaigns targeting ridings with sizeable numbers of Chinese-Canadians. The goal of these efforts were to get them to vote for Liberal candidates. This suggests that the CCP thinks that individual votes count.

As far as I know, Elections Canada actually does vote counts like they’re supposed to. So I think that it would be misleading to say outright that Canadian elections are rigged. But that leads to several other interesting questions.

DOMESTIC ELECTION INTERFERENCE

There has been much talk about “election interference” in recent years. Thanks to the Hogue Commission, it has now been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that foreign states have sought to influence the result of Canadian elections. This is commonly referred to as “foreign interference”.

Much less discussed is a far bigger problem - domestic election interference.

The simple truth of the matter is that the Canadian state controls the Canadian media. Most people are unaware of the extent to which this is true. Everyone knows that the CBC is state-controlled, but fewer people realize that all major Canadian media outlets, from CTV to The Globe and Mail, receive subsidies from the federal government.

This didn’t used to be true. Newspapers and TV stations used to be profitable businesses which made their money through subscriptions, sales, and advertising revenue. In the Digital Age, however, their business models have basically failed. So, starting in 2015, the federal government starting giving subsidies to major media companies.

This is a problem because the simple truth is that the old adage “He who pays the piper calls the tune” remains as true as ever.

Furthermore, the timing of certain media bailout packages seems suspiciously convenient for the Liberal Party.

In 2019, for instance, the Liberals announced a 595 million-dollar bailout, which received Royal Assent in June of that year.

The bailout measures included a 25% refundable tax credit on newsroom salaries, a 15% non-refundable tax credit for digital news subscriptions, and provisions allowing not-for-profit journalism organizations to receive charitable donations. In order to qualify to receive these benefits, organizations needed to be designated as Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations (QCJOs) by an “independent” panel. ​

Strangely, the full list of GCJOs isn't publicly available, but some have been identified. They include:​

• La Presse Inc. (Montreal, QC)

• The Narwhal News Society (Victoria, BC)

• New Canadian Media (Ottawa, ON)

• The Local TO Publishing (Toronto, ON)

• The Canadian Jewish News (Concord, ON)

• La Gazette de la Mauricie (Trois-Rivières, QC)

• Coopérative nationale de l’information indépendante (Québec, QC)

• Journaldesvoisins.com (Montreal, QC)

• Presse-Ouest Ltée (Winnipeg, MB)

• Services d’information communautaire de la Vallée de la Châteauguay (Ormstown, QC)

• Maclean’s

• Winnipeg Free Press

• Quill & Quire

• Guysborough Journal

• Capital Daily

Guess who was denied?

• Rebel News

That package was approved in June. The Liberals then called an election in September, and Canadians went to the polls on October.

Guess who won?

THE LIBERALS SPEND MORE THAN $1.5 BILLION PER YEAR ON MEDIA SUBSIDIES

According to a recent report by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute:

[T]he pace with which Canada subsidized its news media is staggering, with a recent report estimating the federal government will spend $325 million in 2024-25 between the Canada Media Fund ($154.1 million), the Canada Periodical Fund ($86.5 million), the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit ($65 million), and Local Journalism Initiative ($19.6 million). This is in addition to the roughly $1.4 billion yearly federal subsidy to the CBC, which Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised to increase by $150 million if the Liberals are re-elected.

Between the various media support programs and CBC funding, the federal government is spending over $1.7 billion annually subsidising journalism and media. That’s more than the $1.4 billion it will spend annually on the Canada Disability Benefit…

CARNEY IS PROMISING THE CBC $150,000,000 IF THEY GET HIM ELECTED

In the last two years, the Liberals have increased funding for Canadian media.

In March 2024, they pledged $58.8 million to something called the Local Journalism Initiative through 2027. This program funds over 400 reporters covering local news across Canada.

That works out to about $145,000 per reporter. That’s not chump change.

This initiative, by the way, is just one among many. Another example would be Changing Narrative Funds, which pledges $10,000,000 for BIPOC journalists and storytellers.

If you don’t know what BIPOC is, it’s woke-speak for “non-white”.

The most glaring thing here is that Carney is promising to increase funding for the CBC if elected.

Meanwhile, Pierre Poilievre is promising to defund the CBC, even claiming that he plans to sell off its Toronto headquarters so that it can be converted into affordable housing.

I’m not going to lie. I’d love to see that happen.

But let’s take a minute to think about things from the perspective of a CBC employee. If the Conservatives are elected, you might lose your job. If the Liberals are elected, you might well get a pay raise.

All of this is exceedingly convenient for the Liberal Party.

IS THE CANADIAN MEDIA PRO-LIBERAL?

Was Pope Francis Catholic? Yes, the Canadian mainstream media is incredibly biased in favour of the Liberal Party. The best example of this is the CBC, which I like to call the Canadian Brainwashing Corporation.

For instance, the CBC took the liberty of declaring Mark Carney the victor of the most recent leader’s debate, which many viewers thought Poilievre had won.

There has also been all kinds of monkey business with polls. Currently the CBC has the Liberals leading by a considerable margin.

Personally, I think these numbers are complete fabrications. Canadians may be brainwashed, but they aren’t that brainwashed. I’m pretty sure that I’ve seen this movie before.

Before you go trusting the pollsters, by the way, I suggest looking into Frank Graves, the founder of EKOS Research and a prominent Canadian pollster.

Back in 2022, he publicly announced his intention to do his part to ensure that Pierre Poilievre never got elected.

Yes, this is real. Look it up.

So, are Canadian election rigged?

That depends on what you mean by the word “rigged”. As far as I know, Elections Canada does actually count votes like they’re supposed to. As far as I can tell, Canadian elections are less rigged than American ones are.

But the Liberal Party has firm control of the propaganda machine of the Canadian state, meaning that Canadian elections aren’t exactly fair either.

What do you think? Will you voting this election? What are you hoping happens? Who do you think will win?

I look forward to hearing from you!

Crow Qu’appelle