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It is unclear how Del Mastro will explain why his campaign disclosed only $1,575 of work with Holinshed Research Group, and not the $21,000 in voter identification and get-out-the-vote calls the company said it made during the writ period. If the higher amount had been declared, Del Mastro’s campaign would have exceeded his campaign spending limit, a violation of the Elections Act punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and up to five years in prison.

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In March, an investigator with the agency obtained a court order compelling Holinshed to hand over a long list of records pertaining to the Del Mastro campaign.

Those records have since been provided to the agency. They include detailed employee records listing the names of approximately a dozen staff members who worked the phones in Holinshed’s call centre on Elgin Street in Ottawa, and call logs recording the details of 630 hours of calls into Del Mastro’s riding during the election.

Elections Canada was also provided with the “scripts” that the call centre workers read on the phones when they reached voters and asked if they planned to support Del Mastro on election day.

Del Mastro told the Peterborough Examiner on the weekend that he plans to soon release documents that will show everything in his campaign was on the up and up.

“We have full invoices that support all of our elections spending,” he told the paper. “I will be coming forward with our records.”

But when he was asked by a Liberal MP in the House when he would produce these documents, MP Pierre Poilievre said that Del Mastro had provided all the records four years ago, when he filed his report with Elections Canada.