Protesters take to Parliament Hill to show displeasure with robocalls

The controversy over harassing and phoney election calls drew a small crowd on Parliament Hill Monday as demonstrators braved bitter cold to denounce the robocalls affair.

The Ottawa rally followed a demonstration last weekend in Vancouver that attracted a few hundred people.

More protests are planned next week in Toronto and Calgary.

The robocall scandal broke after it was revealed that Elections Canada was investigating an incident in Guelph, Ont., of voters being called on the phone and told to go to polls that didn’t exist during last spring’s federal election.

Since then, Canadians in dozens of ridings have reported receiving similar calls, or being telephoned at inconvenient hours or harassed by people purportedly calling on behalf of political parties.

Elections Canada is now reviewing more than 31,000 reports of robocalls.

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