Reality check: Dean Del Mastro vs. the truth

The Prime Minister’s Parliamentary Secretary, Dean Del Mastro, is having a very hard time with the facts this week.

Earlier this week he went on Power and Politics and twice denied the existence of the riding of Edmonton East— news to his former caucus-mate Peter Goldring of course.

Then, Del Mastro said Conservatives were investigating the election fraud scandal—before contradicting himself on another TV show an hour later.

Wednesday in question period, Del Mastro continued his streak: he declared that the NDP had presented “no evidence… no evidence whatsoever” about the serious electoral fraud scandal.

Aside from the evidence the NDP sent to Elections Canada in this letter, this letter, and these documents we made public, of course.

Thursday Del Mastro bizarrely suggested it was a Liberal firm with U.S. connections that was making the calls. But as Charlie Angus pointed out in QP, he had his firms mixed up.

And on Friday, he cited a story in Question Period pretending New Democrats didn't submit complaints of voter suppression in riding of South Shore—St. Margaret’s. If he read the next sentence, he would have read how the campaign manager and official agent knew of calls, and reported them to Elections Canada.

For someone who likes to repeatedly use the word “unsubstantiated” when dealing with serious allegations of wrongdoing, it seems Del Mastro has an insubstantial grasp of the term.