With the Conservatives' Fair Elections Act, rules around voter ID will be tightened and Canadians will no longer be able to vouch for friends and neighbours at the polls. Elections experts from around the country are warning this will result in hundreds of thousands of voters being turned away from the polls and disenfranchised.
Those most likely to be affected are the young, the poor and those who move often - typically not Conservative voters.
When we pressed about the bill, North Vancouver's Conservative MP Andrew Saxton trotted out a study done by Harry Neufeld, saying it concluded there were 50,000 cases of "serious problems" in the way people registered at the polls.
But the next day, Neufeld testified before a parliamentary committee
that the Conservatives were badly misrepresenting his report, taking it out of context and reaching false conclusions.
He went so far as to tell reporters the bill should be "amended or killed" and it was apparent the Conservatives were trying to tilt the field in their direction.
Former auditor-general Sheila Fraser has also condemned the act as an attack on democracy.
Saxton invoked Canadian soldiers who fought for values like the right to vote in justifying the act.
But it is a great deal of disrespect his party shows those troops when it uses its power to devise every legal way possible to keep people out of polling booths.
People who have traditionally supported the Tories must now be asking themselves what they love more: their country and its ideals, or a party licking its chops for more power.
