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Canada’s chief electoral officer has revealed around 7,000 illegal robocalls were made on election day from a phone number at the centre of the Pierre Poutine scandal in the riding of Guelph, Ont.

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In his first public appearance since the Ottawa Citizen and Postmedia News revealed ongoing Elections Canada investigations into misleading calls in Guelph and other ridings, Marc Mayrand said the fraudulent calls “should not be tolerated in a democracy.”

“Whether it was organized or bigger or whatever, the fact that electors, at least that we know in Guelph, were misdirected by calls falsely made on behalf of Elections Canada is absolutely outrageous,” Mayrand told MPs from the Procedure and House Affairs Committee Thursday morning.

“We know 6,700 calls were placed from the famous 450 number. We got 70 complaints. We know that many people don’t complain,” he added.

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The mysterious Pierre Poutine launched misleading robocalls into Guelph on election day which claimed to be from Elections Canada. The calls, sent out by Edmonton voice-blasting company RackNine, misdirected voters to fake polling stations causing chaos in the Guelph riding.