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GUELPH – Michael Sona’s defence lawyer chipped away at the credibility of the Crown’s first witness in the robocalls case on Monday, pressing him on the vagueness of his memory and asking pointed questions about the promotion and raise he received after giving evidence against his former friend.

Chris Crawford, a Conservative ministerial staffer who worked alongside Sona on the Conservative campaign in Guelph, told the court that he had overheard his former friend speak of misdirecting voters to the wrong polling locations and sending out calls to annoy Liberal voters.

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Crawford is the first of 10 Crown witnesses, all current or former Conservative political staffers.

Crawford testified Monday that one night in the campaign office of candidate Marty Burke, Sona was talking with campaign manager Ken Morgan “about suppressing voters,” Crawford said.

“He was talking about how he might be able to win an election based on something like that.”