I received this e-mail from Hamilton CBC reporter Saira
“I have another question for you: Given your advocacy for anti-LGBTQ and Holocaust denial websites, there have been concerns raised to us about you getting access to voter names and addresses. How do you respond?
Thanks.
Saira Peesker
I replied:
Dear Saira:
Who raises such concerns?
The implications are both scaremongering and defamatory. I have run in elections, municipal, federal and provincial, in both Ontario and Alberta (once), and have had access to voters lists. I have never used them other than for legitimate election purposes.
I am not aware of the websites to which you refer.
I hope this election will be about freedom and the way many politicians have abused and restricted ours during COVID. — Paul
Whining that freedom candidates might use voters’ lists to out some people is an obsession of longtime anti-free speech operative, former CEO of the old Canadian Jewish Congress and now CEO of the Canadian Anti-Hate (actually, anti-Free Speech) Network.
I’ll be curious to see her response.