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“I think Trudeau knows very well that left-wing groups … will not be investigated, only the groups on the groups on the right, the conservative groups, the pro-life and pro-family groups. The left-wing groups are going to get a free pass.”

It's scary, to be honest, to see this happening in Canada

In an email, Daniel Schow, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s press secretary, said the party voted against the Elections Act reforms.

“The enforcement of said elections laws is the responsibility of Elections Canada – an independent agency,” he wrote. “It is up to them to regulate groups that spend money on advocacy during the election writ.”

While they provide information online nowadays, Campaign Life Coalition has been giving information to voters for nearly four decades. “In the ‘old days’ of course, it was done by snail mail and printed voter guides,” Fonseca wrote in a follow-up email.

The group shut down the database at the end of June and the website link to the database now features a notice explaining what happened, pointing to “extremely onerous” reporting requirements should the rules come into effect. He said Campaign Life Coalition’s supporters are outraged by what he calls “censorship.”

“Where we see information choked off from public access is in dictatorial countries, and it’s scary, to be honest, to see this happening in Canada,” Fonseca said in an interview.

Among the requirements imposed by the Elections Act, of particular concern is a disclosure requirement that lists partial addresses and names of donors who’ve contributed money beyond a certain threshold. Fonseca said Campaign Life Coalition fears for the safety of its donors, believing that Antifa — short for the nebulous anti-fascist protest group — is a “left-wing terrorist group” that will target and harm conservatives, either through violence or seeking to get them fired from their jobs.

“We can’t put our supporters at risk that way,” he said.

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