Statement Shows Robocalls Investigator ‘Suspected That Others Were Involved’

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An Elections Canada investigator has mentioned in court documents that he suspects that Conservative campaign worker, Michael Sona, was not the only person involved in misleading robocalls to voters in Guelph, Ont. Director of communications to the Conservative candidate in Guelph, Sona, is the only suspect charged in the case involving automated calls that mislead hundreds of voters to the wrong polling station on election day in May 2011. Sona’s defense counsel is expected to show up in court on Thursday morning in Guelph for a pretrial hearing.

A sworn statement of the Elections Canada investigator, Allan Mathews, elucidated on his conversations with Sona and his lawyer last year. He stated that “in my March 2, 2012 telephone conversation with Sona, and in my conversations with his counsel, I have noted that I suspected that others were involved as well as Sona, but in each case I have been clear that I was asking Sona to provide a statement to me under warning,” Mathews alleges in an Information to Obtain a court order (ITO) he swore in May.

Witnesses giving statements under warning are informed that whatever they may say can be and will be used in court. In the ITO, Mathews refrained from confirming whether or not he still believes that someone else was involved in the calls made by a suspect using the pseudonym “Pierre Poutine.” However, the conclusive document say Mathews alleged that Sona “admitted to personal involvement while leaving some suggestion that he did not act alone.”