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Judge Gary Hearn will decide on Wednesday that for how long former Conservative staffer, Michael Sona, will stay behind bars after being convicted in the 2011 robocalls scandal. The Crown has proposed that Michael Sona be jailed up to at least 18 months, whereas his defence lawyer, Norm Boxall, alleged that in the case that his client was being jailed, then it should be for a “short and sharp” period of no more than 30 days.
According to Boxall, even though Sona was convicted in August of misdirecting voters to the wrong polling stations in 2011, he is an educated and polite 26-year-old man who made a mistake and deserves leniency. In his remarks, Judge Hearn acknowledged that sometimes good people do bad things, but still convicted Sona in August of willfully preventing or endeavoring to prevent a voter from casting a ballot. At the time, Sona worked as director of communications for Conservative candidate Marty Burke’s campaign in Guelph, Ont., where more than 6,000 robocalls were made to voters on Election Day. The calls wrongfully told voters that their polling stations had changed. The scandal made national headlines and triggered protests across Canada.
Even though there was no concrete evidence to prove that Sona created or sent the robocalls, Hearn mentioned in his ruling that there was enough to establish that Sona was “actively involved” in the plot to mislead voters. Hearn alleged that though Sona was the only person to be charged, the evidence presented suggests that Sona didn’t act alone.
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